Chekhov's Skill: Taylor being on the swim team comes in handy during one of the group's initiation rituals.Car Fu: Some of the Skulls' hired goons try to run Chloe and Luke off the road.Captain Ersatz: As mentioned in the recap, the university and the "Skulls" stand in for Yale and its Skull and Bones society.Luke and Chloe stage an argument in which he dumps her-when they weren't even dating, just dealing with a lot of Unresolved Sexual Tension-in order to make the Skulls think that she's no longer important to him and therefore not worth threatening so as to keep him in line. Break His Heart to Save Him: Subverted.Bitch Alert: The first hint of this regarding Ali in the second movie is when she urges Ryan to keep his mouth shut about the accidental death/murder he witnessed.Big "NO!": Caleb, after supposedly accidentally killing Will.Partway through the third film, Taylor finds pictures of herself from before she began campaigning to be allowed to join the group and realizes that she was set up from the very beginning.Big Brother Is Watching You: Caleb warns-outright begs-Luke to stop digging into Will's death, telling him that both of their dorm rooms as well as that of Luke's friend Chloe are bugged and that The Skulls know what he's been up to.Betty and Veronica Switch: In the third film, Taylor is stunned to learn that the childhood friend who's been by her side throughout the whole ordeal is part of the conspiracy, while the guy who's supposedly been threatening her is actually a good guy who was trying to warn her.The movie ends with him and Kelly going off together. Betty and Veronica: The protagonist of the second film is torn between his girlfriend Ali, a snooty socialite, and her typical "good girl" roommate Kelly.coming from the detective who until now has been acting like one of the bad guys but just revealed himself to be on Luke's side by taking out his would-be killer. Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: After the bad guys have cornered Luke and Chloe, one of them is about to shoot him.Ancient Conspiracy: Not so much ancient but fits all of the criteria.All That Glitters: Despite the possibility of having his ideal life handed to him on a silver platter as opposed to the way he was struggling before, Luke very rapidly realizes that being a Skull isn't all it's cracked up to be when he discovers how corrupt the group is. However, Luke then continues watching and realizes Will is still alive, until Caleb's father's men arrive and finish off Will. Caleb assumes he accidentally broke Will's neck and leaves. He doesn't hold on, and Will falls on his head, and a cracking sound can be heard. He watches the security tapes, and sees Will fall off a ledge to the floor below (which isn't enough to kill him), but Caleb grabs his legs to try to save him. When Luke's best friend Will ends up dead, and he suspects his new friend Caleb. The film spawned two direct-to-video sequels, The Skulls II, directed by Joe Chappelle and starring Robin Dunne, Ashley Lyn Cafagna and The Skulls III, with Clare Kramer as the first woman member of the society. Its plot is based upon some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Yale University's Skull and Bones student society. Nelson, and William Petersen, and directed by Rob Cohen. The Skulls is a 2000 American psychological thriller film starring Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Leslie Bibb, Christopher McDonald, Craig T.
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