All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane: Directed by Jonathan Levine. With Amber Heard, Anson Mount, Michael Welch, Whitney Able. A group of high-schoolers invite Mandy Lane, an innocent, desirable girl, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to drop mysteriously.

“Yeah, Iu0026#39;ll admit it. My headline is lamer than this movie could ever be. Truth be told, u0026quot;All The Boys Love Mandy Laneu0026quot; isnu0026#39;t a complete catastrophe. In fact it starts off quite promising. The cinematography is nice, the music and sound effects are effective and the characters are introduced and played well by the actors and actresses. Unfortunately, as soon as they arrive at the country house where the all the u0026quot;horroru0026quot; ensues the movie loses direction and gets boring.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMost of the time u0026quot;Mandy Laneu0026quot; seems like a nostalgic hymn to the wild and careless life of young people. Thatu0026#39;s all nice and dandy for a while but as the movie drags on and youu0026#39;re neither scared nor thrilled you start wondering what the point is. Itu0026#39;s almost as if director Jonathan Levine had wanted to remake u0026quot;The Virgin Suicidesu0026quot; with a few lame killings thrown in instead of suicides.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAfter a fairly acceptable twist the movie drags on even longer. It just wonu0026#39;t end until it finally does, leaving you baffled as to whoever thought this would make a good ending. If itu0026#39;s true what a friend told me, that this script had been rewritten 18 (!) times, then, Jesus Christ, I donu0026#39;t wanna know what the first draft looked like. The result is unfortunate, since direction and cinematography are quite good, as mentioned above. With a better script this movie might actually have become something special. However, as it is u0026quot;Mandy Laneu0026quot; is an anti-climatic rehash of 80s slasher flicks that have been done before and better.”