Director: Karyn Kusama
Writer: Diablo Cody
Running time: 99 mins (approx)
Certification (UK): 15
UK release date: 4th November 2009
Watched on Sky+ Saturday 6th November 2010.
PLEASE NOTE: THERE MAY BE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW.
If it wasn’t for the fact that this was written by Diablo Cody, writer of the rather excellent Juno (2007), I would probably have passed. I’m not a great fan of horror movies, unless they’re very very good, and so a teen horror flick is usually straight on the reject pile. But with Diablo Cody penning the words, how bad could it be? Well I’ll tell you after a short summary (as usual, summary haters please omit the next paragraph).
Jennifer Check and Needy Lesnicky have been friends since kindergarten and, although Jennifer is a cheerleader and Needy is a bit of a nerd, their friendship survived into high school. Needy has a steady boyfriend, Chip Dove, who is just an average teenager. Jennifer decides to take Needy to see a band she had seen on the internet called Low Shoulder. During the show a fire breaks out and several people are killed. Jennifer ends up going with the band in their van. Needy makes it home where she is met by Jennifer covered in blood. The next day Jennifer turns up at school behaving normal. This perplexes Needy and when, over the following weeks, several boys are found brutally murdered, she begins to put two and two together. Little does she know, Chip is becoming a target and time is running out.
Although the dialogue is just as snappy and cool as in Juno, this movie is sadly flawed. I just didn’t buy into the characters and found it all a little bit too ludicrous. A very decent performance though from Amanda Seyfried as Needy and honourable mentions go to Megan Fox as Jennifer, Johnny Simmons as Chip and Adam Brody as Nikolai Wolf.
I must say there is a really good score to this movie, some great indie and rock tracks, however, a great score does not a great movie make. There were one or two good moments in the film, but again, as a whole it just didn’t work for me. I guess if you’re a die hard fan of Megan Fox, then by all means go and see it, there are plenty of scenes with her wearing very little. Otherwise, not recommended.
My score: 5.2/10
LINKS:
IMDb Page: http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1131734/
Trailer: http://uk.imdb.com/rg/VIDEO_PLAY/LINK/video/imdb/vi4062052889/
Writer: Diablo Cody
Running time: 99 mins (approx)
Certification (UK): 15
UK release date: 4th November 2009
Watched on Sky+ Saturday 6th November 2010.
PLEASE NOTE: THERE MAY BE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW.
If it wasn’t for the fact that this was written by Diablo Cody, writer of the rather excellent Juno (2007), I would probably have passed. I’m not a great fan of horror movies, unless they’re very very good, and so a teen horror flick is usually straight on the reject pile. But with Diablo Cody penning the words, how bad could it be? Well I’ll tell you after a short summary (as usual, summary haters please omit the next paragraph).
Jennifer Check and Needy Lesnicky have been friends since kindergarten and, although Jennifer is a cheerleader and Needy is a bit of a nerd, their friendship survived into high school. Needy has a steady boyfriend, Chip Dove, who is just an average teenager. Jennifer decides to take Needy to see a band she had seen on the internet called Low Shoulder. During the show a fire breaks out and several people are killed. Jennifer ends up going with the band in their van. Needy makes it home where she is met by Jennifer covered in blood. The next day Jennifer turns up at school behaving normal. This perplexes Needy and when, over the following weeks, several boys are found brutally murdered, she begins to put two and two together. Little does she know, Chip is becoming a target and time is running out.
Although the dialogue is just as snappy and cool as in Juno, this movie is sadly flawed. I just didn’t buy into the characters and found it all a little bit too ludicrous. A very decent performance though from Amanda Seyfried as Needy and honourable mentions go to Megan Fox as Jennifer, Johnny Simmons as Chip and Adam Brody as Nikolai Wolf.
I must say there is a really good score to this movie, some great indie and rock tracks, however, a great score does not a great movie make. There were one or two good moments in the film, but again, as a whole it just didn’t work for me. I guess if you’re a die hard fan of Megan Fox, then by all means go and see it, there are plenty of scenes with her wearing very little. Otherwise, not recommended.
My score: 5.2/10
LINKS:
IMDb Page: http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1131734/
Trailer: http://uk.imdb.com/rg/VIDEO_PLAY/LINK/video/imdb/vi4062052889/
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