The wall behind Renee in the detention room repeats the pattern of the famous "Shining" carpet.
At one point one of the villainous characters states "humans are a virus and we are the cure" which is almost identical to the line spoken by Agent Smith in the Matrix: Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
It is also practically the same as the line Sylvester Stallone used in "Cobra" (1986) when confronting criminals, "You're a disease, and I'm the cure."