Even a horror film about horror film elements and invoked horror tropes can pack in amazing moments.
- Marty's bong can actually be compressed to resemble a simple coffee mug to bypass cops. A very small example, but it's pretty cool.
- How Marty survives. He hacks apart the zombie with a trowel. Yes, it may have been offscreen, but still! What is on screen, though, is his heroic return in saving Dana from the redneck zombie, coming out of nowhere with the giant bong as an Improvised Weapon as triumphant music plays.
- The Japanese schoolgirls exorcise the spirit attacking them and turn it into a happy little frog. Not a single one of them dies. They're all nine. And every other ritual ends in failure. Most of those failures apparently involve less Power of Friendship and more exploded buildings. This one, though, also doubles as a heartwarming moment. Well, until Sitterson starts cussing at them. A shame that the ending ruins their accomplishment.
- The entire finale is pure genius:
- Think of any monster you have seen in a horror movie. Giant snakes, werewolves, ghosts, zombies, Giant Spiders, killer clowns and so forth (even killer unicorns!). Now imagine them all onscreen at the same time. This is one of those instances where nightmare fuel also doubles as an awesome.
- At first glance, pressing the "System Purge" button seems like a stupid idea since it would release all the monsters, but Dana and Marty manage to remain hidden and not get caught by any of them. In fact, amidst the chaos, they get much farther after pressing it, so activating it might have prevented their lives from being cut short at the control panel. It might have been one of the smartest moves in a horror film, period.
- Hell, just the fact that The Crawling Hand — of all friggin' things — gets the first kill in the facility.
- While most of the Facility staff die fairly easily, not all the soldiers do. While they do of course die, when the Purge begins, the first group of soldiers react immediately and are shown to have hit some of the monsters. Truman even manages to pull a Taking You with Me while being torn apart.
- The brief cameo in the cells of the Special Zombies from Left 4 Dead. We don't see them in action, but how cool is it just that they're in the film at all?
- Homage to The Shining — the two dead girls, who appear in one of the elevator cells of horror. "Come play with us... forever and ever and ever..." As well as one elevator just spewing blood.
