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{{quote|''If you were going to [[Take Over the World]], would you [[Monumental Damage|blow up]] [[The White House]]'' [[Independence Day]]''-style, or [[Puppeteer Parasite|sneak in through the back door]]?''|'''Casey'''}}
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[[Six-Student Clique|Six students]], however, manage to find out what's going on: [[Dumb Jock|academically-challenged football player]] Stan Rosado, [[Goth]] chick Stokely Mitchell, [[Hollywood Nerd|nerdy kid]] and school newspaper photographer Casey Connor, [[Alpha Bitch|queen bitch]] Delilah Profitt, [[Delinquents|drug-dealing delinquent]] Zeke Tyler, and [[New Transfer Student]] Marybeth Louise Hutchinson. Together, they set out to put a stop to the aliens, armed only with Zeke's drugs (which are instantly fatal to the aliens) and [[Genre Savvy|their knowledge]] of [[Alien Invasion]] movies like ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]''.
Among the rare successful [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror|horror-comedies]] (especially out of the bunch that followed in ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]''{{'}}s [[Follow the Leader|wake]]), both very funny and very scary. The film's writer, Kevin Williamson, also wrote the first two ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'' movies, which helped it to avoid making the mistakes of many of the [[Follow the Leader|copycat]] teen horror movies of the late '90s. Expect loads of [[Body Horror|creative gore]] and ''really'' [[
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* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Not only do Casey's parents take away his phone and internet as punishment but they also confiscate his porn. Casey's Father tells him "No more [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?|flogging the bishop]]".▼
* [[Alien Invasion]]
* [[Aliens in Cardiff]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and [[Justified Trope|justified]]. When one character claims that it would be absurd for aliens to secretly invade via a [[High School]] in a small town and brainwash the population, another [[Genre Savvy]] charcter points out that this would attract a lot less attention than attacking a big city, which the whole world will notice. See the page quote.
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* [[Combat Tentacles]]: The head alien has these.
* [[Cool Car]]: Zeke drives a Pontiac GTO.
▲* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Not only do Casey's parents take away his phone and internet as punishment but they also confiscate his porn. Casey's Father tells him "No more [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?|flogging the bishop]]".
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Surprisingly little of it for a '90s teen horror film. The oldest cast members to play teenagers were 22-year-olds Shawn Hatosy and [[Laura Harris]]. Elijah Wood, meanwhile, was 17 when he starred in this film, while Jordana Brewster was 18. Josh Hartnett was twenty,making him only about a year or two older than his character (Who is mentioned as repeating the year).
** {{spoiler|And Harris technically gets a free pass seeing as she was actually the alien anyway.}}
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* [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]: Subverted. While breaking into the school's storeroom to steal ingredients for his drugs, Zeke cites the trope to reassure Marybeth should they be caught. However the two aren't patient, and start making out regardless.
* [[Fiction as Cover-Up]]:
{{quote|'''Stokely:''' So [[Alien Invasion|aliens]] have just been setting us up over the years, creating this happy little make-believe existence, with their ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.]]''s and their ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' movies, just so [[Crying Wolf|no one would believe it if it really happened]]?
'''Casey:''' I think so. }}
* [[Fingore]]: Mr. Furlong is bitten by the alien specimen that Casey finds. It takes a nice chuck out of his pointer finger. Later, {{spoiler|after having been infected by the aliens, he has all four fingers of one hand cut off by a paper slicer.}}
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'''Stokely''': ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]''. Small town gets taken over by aliens... That was a joke. }}
* [[Impaled Palm]]: Coach Willis stabs a pencil straight through {{spoiler|Principal Drake's}} hand and it makes a gruesome crunch when he yanks it back out again. She is understandably horrified.
* [[Impostor
* [[Ironic Echo]]:
** When Zeke is selling pens full of drugs to some students, he tells them that the stuff is "guaranteed to jack you up." {{spoiler|Casey later repeats this line before he stabs and kills Alien!Marybeth with one of these pens.}}
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