All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
R | 21 December 2007 (USA)
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Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their destination. Partying ensues, and Mandy's close pal, Emmet, keeps a watchful eye on the young males making a play for Mandy. Then two of the students are murdered.

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mgraziano-21346

Crap. Crap. Crap... I love stupid shitty horror movies but this had nothing to it and was nothing but a waste of time! Not scary nor creepy.. no story line.. not gory.. just boring.. don't waste your time. The movie starts off with a silly accident then the main girl decides to find new friends. They are all hopeless.. not just in their personalities but also the acting.. none of the characters are very likable and all seem rather boring. The movie is slow.. it's at least 45 minutes before anything really happens and then is a slow and boring as well as uneventful finish.. Massive dislike... Have nothing good to say about this one.. there are way better silly slasher films out there that are actually worth your time.

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DogFilmCritic

I had the same problem in this movie as with "House of the Devil" it was so hard to be an homage to classic slasher movies from the seventies and eighties, it forgets to be a movie of its own, people usually say "you don't get it, its supposed to be like that" i don't mind the essence but i expect more of a just run and stab, in the end all movies are trying to tell a story but now its more focused on looking like an old movie in every single way. There's so little reasons on WHY the killing is done, to the point its just hinted out, half of the movie its just teens being teens, that i have to admit they really nailed it, thats something good they act like actual teenagers do booze hungry, hormone crazy, insecure, trying to prove others there better than them, that was well done. The title of the movie to me sounded more like a revenge flick like "I spit on your grave" i wasn't expecting to turn out the way it did, Amber Heard really knows how to use what she is giving to work with and she pulls it of very well as the rest of the cast but thats probably it, honestly you don't have to rub two brain cells to know who is the killer, its painfully predictable, the cliché characters are all there, but I've seen worst, i just was expecting something different, prove me wrong or agree,out of curiosity give it a watch.

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begob

The dispassionate Mandy Lane tries to make it till dawn as the friends who invited her to a ranch party are picked off by a mysterious killer.I like the opening sequence in this, as it got me riled and had a good life changing moment that set the story up. The protagonist's friend was an interesting character, and it seemed he would turn out to be the hero.After that it kinda plods along until the twist ending - the kind you'll have thought of half way through but dismissed as implausible.I think the problem is the title character - well played with a detached look in the eye, but I didn't get her motivation and the relationship with her friend. Don't want to give away too much. The other actors were fine, though I think Red was miscast.Music was great, varying up the usual slasher stuff.Overall, a sprint start turns into a stroll, then makes a dash for the line.

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mj68538

If you don't look carefully this is just a run-of-the-mill slasher pic with a surprise ending.But if you look at all the scenes, this is a much cleverer slasher spoof than Scream could ever hope to be. (next bit contains some spoilers, but I hope I have't given away too much)For instance the slutty girl, who you assume is the first to die (as usual) actually outlasts her, er, doting boyfriend. And the cast spends more time either seeming bored or developing crushes on the unobtainable heroine than running away screaming or investigating dark places, even though their friends are disappearing one-by-one. And the silent, sinister masked killer suddenly turns out to be a geeky, lovestruck idiot! And finally, in my second favorite bit (excluding the ending twist), the killer chases a girl through the field, not to heavy metal or psycho-style chords, but perky, upbeat pop.About the only thing I didn't fully get was the scene in the pit full of dead cows; was it a clever bit of imagery to show the killer thought no more of the victim than a butcher does of the cattle he/she slaughters, or was it just a bit of gratuitous gore?Well worth a look for the clever camera work and surprise ending, and then worth a second look to see how many knowing nods to the standard slasher pic you can spot. Oh, and I challenge you not to shudder slightly when you hear 'sealed with a kiss' playing over the final shot, when you realize you might have just had a glimpse into how a real psychopath's mind might work...

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