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Director: Jeff Wadlow
Movie review
From Time Out London
A serial killer flick without significant carnage might sound like a real non-starter, but it’s possible to give first-time director Jeff Wadlow’s boarding school thriller the benefit of the doubt by assuming it’s more interested in plot manipulation than outright blood-letting. This perhaps explains how the production won a million-dollar prize from a US auto manufacturer, but it still comes across as a cumulatively tiresome exercise in story mechanics as bored students at an exclusive Virginia academy react to the recent slaying of a local ‘townie’ by pretending their classmates are the killer’s next target, group e-mailing an invented case history as a mass scare tactic. However, when the supposed psycho returns their on-line messages and one of their number disappears, it looks like their lies might be coming worryingly true. Sundry red herrings and ever-shifting guilt make the story more Agatha Christie than Wes Craven, but as the obviously over-age cast prove exasperatingly dim-witted while trading smart-aleck dialogue, the power of suggestion takes us only so far before patience wears thin.Author: TJ
Time Out London Issue 1847: January 11-18 2006
Cast & crew
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Producer: Beau Bauman
Cast: Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jared Padalecki, Jon Bon Jovi full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Rated: 12A
Duration: 90 mins
UK Release: Jan 13 2006
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