Very well executed

The Worst Film Ever

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It's Grizzly Lake High School. Taylor Fisher is a BITCH. The head cheerleader gets murdered by a killer. Riley Jones (Shanley Caswell) is a social activist feminist. She has a crush on her childhood friend Clapton Davis (Josh Hutcherson) from across the street who is going out with her former friend, self-obsessed, new head cheerleader Ione Foster (Spencer Locke). An ax-wielding killer dressed like movie character Cinderhella comes after Riley but nobody believes her. Billy Nolan is a bully, Ione's ex with fly-powers who wants to fight Clapton. There's also a magnetic UFO time-traveling bear in the hallway. When Billy is killed, principal Karl Verge (Dane Cook) puts the kids in detention.It's a satirical mishmash of 80s and 90s movies. It's big words, rapid-fire dialogue, close-up filming, and outlandish writing. The movie is trying extremely hard. It never really gets funny. It's also trying to do too much and jamming too much into this manic story. Shanley Caswell is a cute girl but she's not lead girl material. Josh Hutcherson is a cute guy but he's not jock material. Joseph Kahn and Mark Palermo's comedic credentials are questionable at best. The ambition is high but the execution is too scattered.

After watching this movie I wanted to tell everyone about it because I loved it so much but didn't know how to describe it. It was like a bunch of 80's and 90's teen comedies and horror films rolled into one fast-paced entertaining movie. I did find myself puzzled a few times because certain plot points were so unexpected but I loved it. It's definitely a hidden gem and I found it as a recommended movies on Netflix. It's definitely not a movie for everyone but it's the first movie I've watched in a long time that made me want to immediately watch it again partly because I think I'll see things I missed and also because I was so entertained.

If it wasn't 1:30 in the morning I would have turned this film off pretty quickly. There is nothing good about this film and so I thought I'd come here to save you from wasting an hour and a half of your lives. I seriously can't believe some people enjoyed this movie. Firstly. if there's ever a film that has a character metaphorically wearing a sign that says 'I am the killer' then this wins it. The typically psychotic, boring old killer who talks too long before deciding its time to get on with the business and put us, as well as the victim, out of their misery is apparent AGAIN! Secondly, the characters are soooo boring and yes, that includes Josh Hutcherson. The acting is awful, again including Hutcherson, and it basically includes awful back stories of each person to try and liven the film up, which is doesn't. I hate to sound so negative, but this film has no positives. I honestly don't know why the director decided to take the story in the direction it went in, i would have just preferred a 'who done it?' type film which just showed teens being killed after another but instead i end up with this which has barely even a slasher/comedy element to it. Just a ton of garbage.

A serial-killer goes on a rampage of murdering high school students. A smörgåsbord of every teen movie ever made set in a high school horror story. That said, the visual and stylistic aspects are out of this world. Sadly, a film can't survive on just that. With no clear mood established, the audience is left confused as to what to feel -- unless you're under the age of 25, media-obsessed and happen to like films that appear surface-cool (i.e. music videos) with one or two "heart-to-heart" moments force-fed into the script. Overall a fun and strange watch if you don't take it too seriously, but not my cup of tea. 6.2/10