Issa has a few problems. Missing Father, Early Onset Schziophrenia, and a mysterious man following her everywhere. Is he a result of her illness, or is he real?
... he's totally real.
This Script Provides Examples Of:
- Adults Are Useless: Most of the parents are missing, dead, or are barking up the wrong tree when it comes to the problems plaguing the main characters.
- Deadpan Snarker: When a psychologist asks Issa if she wants to talk about something else for the rest of their session, she comments that she felt sad because she got a D on her math test.
- Disappeared Dad: Issa's father is never mentioned or seen.
- Death by Pragmatism: Averted. When Nick suggests if they just got away from Issa they'd be fine, he is berated by Claire. However, he is the only on-screen character to make it to the end of the film.
- Dont Go Intothe Woods: All dream sequences and death sequences feature trees.
- Final Girl: Played with. The one you'd expect to be the Final Girl Almost makes it to the end of the movie.
- Gilligan Cut: Susuan apologizes for making someone wait, as "My limo driver couldn't work out where to park." The scene then cuts to the vehicle in question: a 93 Saturn, which is a fairly bog-standard car.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It starts off with Issa's supernatural stalker being a side effect of her schizophrenia. Then her friends start having the same problem. Then people start dying.
- Men Are the Expendable Gender: Inverted; there are only two men in the film, but they both live.
- Police Are Useless: Discussed.Issa: And after we [call the police] what will they do? They'll just take me back to the mental hospital. I'm not looking forward to that.
