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Even a movie as campy and hamtastic as this one can tug at the heartstrings when it wants to.
- Chip's death, and Needy's grief-stricken reaction to it.
- Watching Needy going from a cheerful, typical teenager into a violent and angry person, thanks to all the traumatic experiences she goes through. It gets worse with a dash of Fridge Horror: at the end, Needy escapes from the psych ward of the prison and brutally murders Low Shoulder in retaliation for what they did to Jennifer and for causing the events of the movie, but where can she go after that? She's now an escaped convict with multiple murders on her hands, so she's likely going to be spending the rest of her life on the run or in hiding.
- Needy's Survivor Guilt after the fire, especially as she walks through the hallway and sees a girl, sitting on the floor, sobbing, presumably because she lost a close friend that night.I feel guilty just for breathing.
- The fact that Needy unintentionally marked her friend for death by encouraging Jennifer to go out with Colin. The poor girl thought she was just setting two of her friends up on a nice, perfectly harmless date.
- Jennifer's horrific, brutal murder. Her terrified screams don't help. It really hammers in the fact that, pre-possession, Jennifer was still a teenager — a kid. Yes, she was an Alpha Bitch, but she wasn't outright evil; certainly not enough to deserve what happened to her. No wonder Needy's in tears by the end of the story.
- Her tearful, desperate begging is made that much worse by the band's snide mockery and her own chipper demeanor while recounting the story.
- For a minor character, Jonas has a lot of sadness packed into him.
- When we first meet him, he's sobbing in the middle of class when the teacher is talking about how many people died in the fire, accompanied by a nerdier boy who puts an arm around him in support.
- It gets worse when you find out that one of the casualties was Jonas' best friend.
- Jennifer twists the knife even further by claiming she wants to talk to him alone because she actually saw his friend at the club before the fire started and was probably the last person to speak to him. Jonas immediately asks what he said, and is visibly touched and heartbroken when Jennifer claims his friend said he considered him a brother. The poor kid has just suffered the greatest loss of his life, and was only hoping to have someone to talk to about it. Except the one lending him a sympathetic ear is actually luring him into a trap, and in fact made up the whole encounter with his friend.
- Sure, she's planning on killing him, but there's something kind of tragic about Jennifer's exchange with Chip at the pool (before she shows... that she's about to kill him). It's almost like the real, non-possessed, teenage Jennifer is showing through for a second.I feel empty.
- If you're one for ham, Needy's ripping off Jennifer's BFF necklace, which they've apparently had since they were children, being what weakens, then ultimately kills her. Also the fact that it causes Needy to remember how much they care for each other just at the moment she stabs Jennifer to death, which she now takes no pleasure in and is left further traumatized by.Jennifer: My tit...Needy: No...your heart.
- It's implied throughout the movie that Jennifer had learned to see herself as less of a person and more as a sex object prior to her murder. If the real Jennifer showed through one last time upon being stabbed, the above line basically cements that.
- Jennifer's mom's horror at finding her daughter being stabbed to death by Needy. The audience knows it was necessary to stop her and more of a Mercy Kill than anything, but anyone could also empathize with her—it's a parent's worst nightmare.
- The death of the foreign exchange student, Ahmet. He came to America and survived a traumatic event, only to be killed by Jennifer under the pretense of helping him.
