"The Girl in the Photographs" is a fair thriller for nondiscriminating viewers. So often, horror movies on Video on Demand are so bad that I turn them off without watching them all the way through. I managed to get all the way through this and it wasn't quite what I expected, but it was just "OK". Some good scares. One of the writers was Osgood Perkins, son of actor Anthony Perkins ("Psycho", 1960). Wes Craven was an executive producer, his last film before his death. Kal Penn played such an obnoxious, unlikable person, I was actually glad when his character was killed.

If you are bored to death and you have no slightest idea what to do with yourself, then you could maybe consider watching this movie. Actually... no. Better observe your walls, there must be some interesting bug stains or something. I mean... something this much useless and unprovoked is rare to find... :(3/10 and even that much only because there are some cute girls in it...............................................

The trailer looked good. The premise was interesting. The actual film itself...well...I just kept hoping for it to end or at least provide SOME sort of creepy factors. This movie may work for some but true Horror and Thriller fans will be disappointed. If you can get past the obnoxious and facetious character of one of the main actors well you're definitely more patient and forgiving than me. He was absolutely AWFUL. Condescending...and much more. Horribly written character. In addition I was very discouraged by the police and how they handled certain situations. Finally this movie may as well be re-named "Masked Stabbers" trying in some way to perhaps be like Scream (but failing miserably). I am not sure how this film garnered 5/10...definitely beyond me. Pass.

I understand to a point why people desire the revival of the slasher flick. In the 70's you had Halloween. In the 80s you had Friday the 13th and Elm Street. In the 90's you had I Know What You Did Last Summer and the Scream franchise. The fact is these are Classics that cannot be touched which is why most got remade. The girl in the photographs does not try to be those films which perhaps is why some were disappointed. I thought the movie was filmed well and the cast was good with the exception of the leading lady. Watching her was like watching Kristen Stewart in the first Twilight movie. She was one note, monotone and forgettable which is really unacceptable seeing as how our villain becomes obsessed with her when there wasn't anything to be obsessed about. She was lacking personality extremely. She mostly just came off as a bitch reminiscent of the stone-faced actress that acted opposite Channing Tatum in Magic Mike. Having said that there were some problems with the script. There's absolutely no character development for our leading lady and absolutely no character development for our villains either. You get the impression that they're brothers but that's never said. There's nothing to make you give a crap about the "star". Does she have parents? Was she hatched from an egg? Did she grow up in this town or just move there? All we know is she has an ex boyfriend that she doesn't want to talk to for a reason that's never said and she works in the grocery store. It's pretty easy not to care about most of the characters since most of them are shallow which is fine it's always nice to see dumb shallow pretty people get killed off in horror movies. The truth is the real star of this film is The Mastermind villain. His performance reminded me of the young villain in the first Purge movie. He was very strange and perfectly creepy like a stalker should be. I love that I couldn't tell what he was going to do next and that he was enjoying it. All and all I think the villains were pretty perfect aside from their lack of backstory. Other holes in the plot include if it's such a small town how does no one notice these people missing? How long have these guys been doing this? Why are the cops such idiots? I love discovering good new villains. That's what makes this movie worth a sit-down. I thought the masks were creative. The kills not so much but man just a little bit more story and some recasting and the film would have been a lot better. But I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's not an in-your-face slasher flick where loud orchestrated music plays as the villain jumps out very Scream style. It's more along the lines of Kiss the Girls just not as good but we can't all be James Patterson.