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Plot

This reject from slasher-movie remedial school -- featuring copious amounts of teen sex and the usual unimaginative gore murders -- involves the return of a problem teen (Donovan Leitch) to high school after his release from an institution. After essentially pinning the "Red Herring" sign on the main character, the filmmakers then pander what passes for suspense as Leitch's classmates head for that big D-hall in the sky. Not even a supporting performance by then-unknown Brad Pitt managed to rescue this lackluster thriller, which arrived far too late in the game to appeal to the teen-horror crowd -- an audience which by then had already migrated from Halloween clones and Friday the 13th sequels to Freddy Krueger territory after Wes Craven's crafty A Nightmare on Elm Street.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Comedy,Horror,Thriller
Run Time:
91min.
DVD Release Date:
06/12/2007
Distributor(s):
Republic Pictures Home Video
Director(s):
Rospo Pallenberg
Starring:
Donovan Leitch , Jill Schoelen , Brad Pitt , Roddy McDowall , Martin Mull
Themes:
High School Life,Serial Killers,Woman In Jeopardy,Opposites Attract
Tone:
Campy,Creepy,Lurid
Keywords:
craziness,false-accusation,father,high-school,identity,mass-murder,mental-illness,multiple-murder,murder,mystery [whodunit],prosecutor,rampage,school,serial-killer,student,teenagers