A group of bullying teenagers are targeted individually by a student who committed suicide.
Before pointing out that reviewers and critics have established this as "Skins with killings", it is worth mentioning that the E4 programme is a drama, containing controversial yet equally fun and poignant entertainment for teenagers and adults. It in 2007 was a refreshing establishment to represent the English nation with teenager's wrong doings and the stereotyped lives of the 16 to 17 year olds, and with its issues on drugs, sex and school it was to be taken seriously. This picture, is not.
Also noting that British horror has fallen into some what convention recently, do not expect to be scared witless. Last year's Donkey Punch for example was a slasher that brewed with high octane teenager zest that was highly predictable but undoubtedly thrilling. But likewise it wasn't especially scary, and neither is this owing to the fact of the build up and perhaps repetitious plot. Someone has come back from the dead to get his revenge. We have seen that with Sorority Row amongst others already this year. However this film is fantastic.
When watching a horror you expect to be thrilled and scared and be glued to your seat or hiding behind your sofa. This is a glued to your seat styled slasher that brims excellent verbal disgust, spicy protagonists and quite gruesome death sequences.
Scream was perhaps the first original slasher that proved everyone wrong with its many red herrings and ups and downs. This 2009 picture has some very effective montages of thrilling entertainment from an in car sex show to blunt and extravagant vandalism. And whilst the majority is predictable it is simple entertainment built for quick enjoyment and representation of the digital age with the mobile phone texts.
Alex Pettyfer thrives on the tough lead bully, a sharp and distasteful protagonist with attitude for anyone who gives one. He brims with bad genes and is the quarter stone for the stereotypical English bully. As before whilst this film isn't to be taken seriously as Skins, it is worth noting that this has an underlining theme of bullying and the wrong nature of degrading others. The essence of karma is present likewise which adds tension and an extra spice which is occasionally lost in inevitability, but is likable.
Jon Wright's style here adds your spice and zest with some digital camera shots to give that extra sense of real life and whilst the placement of Mullet in the shock sequences is dreadful, he gets the majority on target for the narrative to work.
So, a Skins episode with bloods and gore? In a sense but this doesn't have the heartfelt intention and controversy of the TV programme but unlike the Bafta winning smash, this is to be taken sitting down with enjoyment and dark drama on the heart.
Before pointing out that reviewers and critics have established this as "Skins with killings", it is worth mentioning that the E4 programme is a drama, containing controversial yet equally fun and poignant entertainment for teenagers and adults. It in 2007 was a refreshing establishment to represent the English nation with teenager's wrong doings and the stereotyped lives of the 16 to 17 year olds, and with its issues on drugs, sex and school it was to be taken seriously. This picture, is not.
Also noting that British horror has fallen into some what convention recently, do not expect to be scared witless. Last year's Donkey Punch for example was a slasher that brewed with high octane teenager zest that was highly predictable but undoubtedly thrilling. But likewise it wasn't especially scary, and neither is this owing to the fact of the build up and perhaps repetitious plot. Someone has come back from the dead to get his revenge. We have seen that with Sorority Row amongst others already this year. However this film is fantastic.
When watching a horror you expect to be thrilled and scared and be glued to your seat or hiding behind your sofa. This is a glued to your seat styled slasher that brims excellent verbal disgust, spicy protagonists and quite gruesome death sequences.
Scream was perhaps the first original slasher that proved everyone wrong with its many red herrings and ups and downs. This 2009 picture has some very effective montages of thrilling entertainment from an in car sex show to blunt and extravagant vandalism. And whilst the majority is predictable it is simple entertainment built for quick enjoyment and representation of the digital age with the mobile phone texts.
Alex Pettyfer thrives on the tough lead bully, a sharp and distasteful protagonist with attitude for anyone who gives one. He brims with bad genes and is the quarter stone for the stereotypical English bully. As before whilst this film isn't to be taken seriously as Skins, it is worth noting that this has an underlining theme of bullying and the wrong nature of degrading others. The essence of karma is present likewise which adds tension and an extra spice which is occasionally lost in inevitability, but is likable.
Jon Wright's style here adds your spice and zest with some digital camera shots to give that extra sense of real life and whilst the placement of Mullet in the shock sequences is dreadful, he gets the majority on target for the narrative to work.
So, a Skins episode with bloods and gore? In a sense but this doesn't have the heartfelt intention and controversy of the TV programme but unlike the Bafta winning smash, this is to be taken sitting down with enjoyment and dark drama on the heart.