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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'' [[What the Hell, Casting Agency?|creative casting]].
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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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'''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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