 
A
nerdy outsider named Needy Check (Amanda
Seyfried) is in an asylum who talks about
what happened to her when she was sane as
she meets another outsider named Jennifer
Check (Megan Fox) who is a cheerleader
and becomes tight friends with her
although they have little in common and
then starts dating a geeky classmate of
hers named Chip Dove (Johnny Simmons).
Both Needy and Jennifer go to a bar and
watch a band lead buy a guy named Dirk
(Juan Riedinger) whom picks up Jennfier
after a fire happanes at the bar.
Later on Needy realises that Jennifer has
changed and seems to be hungry for human
blood as she tries to pick up guy's at
her school and then kills them in which
Dirk and his band members are responsible
for the night they picked her up.
Needy fears that her school will be in
since their dance is happening very soon
and she plans to attend it. She asks Chip
to attend with her to help protect
everyone from Jennifer's next movie even
if it means killing her.
The DVD cover
looked nice and flashy with the pic of Jennifer so I checked
it out as I heard the film was a bit
corny and it certainly was corny and in
the beginning it seemed like just a dark
comedy and wondered when the horror was
coming in to all of this but it does when
she is turned into a demonic type
vampiress.
The story is a little confusing in which
you wonder how she came to be this way
but in the middle of it there's a
flashback sequence with the band members
doing a cult ceremony but yet I didn't
understand how she turned into a
vampiress. I guess they resurrected a
demon and she became possessed. The story
tried hard to be an original vampiress
flick in that fashion but yet it needed a
bit more inspiration.
There's a good
moment with a nutritionist as an
asylum calmly coming up to Needy Lesnicki and giving her advice with
her suddenly kicking her in the face and
then this nutritionist falling back
which really makes you jump as well as a
good camera shot looking up on Needy saying something vulgar to her with a
nice evil expression on her face. There's
also a great moment with
orderly's dragging her away into a quiet
room with a nice shot on her screaming
crazily.
There's some nice discussions between both Needy and Jennifer Check going in a bar and
talking to some band members mainly played
by Dirk as well as him
talking to his members by asking
about picking one of them up seeing if
she's a virgin as well as a good camera
shot on Needy looking shocked
and disgusted and telling him off which
looked nicely energised.
There's nice shots on Dirk performing with his band as well as nice
close up shots on both Needy and Jennifer smiling and holding
hands. Plus there's nice shots on the bar
catching on fire with everyone panicking
and running out. There's a campy moment
with Dirk trying to pick up Jennifer outside next to the bar
burning down as if it's not a big deal.
It looked a bit too comedically done.
There's a good moment with Needy walking into a kitchen of her home and
then Jennifer appearing behind her
grinning evilly with blood all over her
and then going into the fridge and
gorging out on food acting ravenous which
really trips you out while watching this
as well as her spitting out black liquid.
There's a nice discussion with Needy almost getting emotional talking to her boyfriend Chip Dove by telling him
what happened that night as well as a
nice flashback shot on her crying
hysterically and cleaning up the black
liquid on the kitchen floor.
There's a good distance camera shot on a
football jock and then a fast camera shot
panning in on him and then Jennifer approaching acting firtatious with him
which seemed a bit rough. There's also
good lustful shots on them making out in
the woods and then close up shots on the
wildlife staring at them with a nice
attack approach by her looking monstrous
and him screaming which looked cheesy but
not terrible.
There's a good moment with a supporting character Nikolai looking nervous
around a dark house which looked
abandoned and then Jennifer approaching next to him with her lustfully
coming on to him and then a nice shadow
shot on her face turning monstrous and
attacking him. There's a good gruesome
shot on her drinking his blood. Plus
there's good shots between Needy and Mr. Wrobleski getting it on in bed
when this moment happens with a perfect
camera shot looking down on them.
A
good moment on Jennifer telling Needy as to why she did the
things she's doing with good flashback
shots on Dirk and his gang
taunting her in the woods as well as
doing a cult sacrifice on her with her
crying in fear of them which almost
looked disturbing but the situations on
this was a wee bit cheesy. There's also
good close up shots on both Needy and Jennifer kissing one another
mouth to mouth which is also mind
boggling.
There's a good confrontation with Needy talking to Mr. Wrobleski near a
staircase in a school hallway telling him
that Jennifer is evil with him not taking
her seriously and then discussing about
the dance and to show up to protect
others which looked not too bad.
There's a good moment with Jennifer approaching Mr. Wrobleski in a park at
night and then going to an abandoned pool
talking along with Jennifer getting
lungeful towards him and pushing him in
the pool plus many great takes between her evilly walking towards Needy with her acting nervous but trying to act
courageous and defensive on this matter
as well as their battling towards one
another which was one of the best
scene's ever and higly energised.
Another best moment was when Needy is talking to Mr. Wrobleski who is slowly
dying which seemed very emotional.
There's more great energy between Needy and Jennifer battling in their room
with a good close up shot on Needy herself ripping off a necklace on Jennifer and her falling down.
It does show a good look at 3 outsiders
that stick together until one of them
changes. It kinda reminded me of The
Craft in that sort of fashion
but the topics on what went on in the
school was a bit different since there
were no curses put on others due to
witchcraft but what it had in common was
some outsider friends and one of them was
stunningly beautiful regardless.
There is a touch of some lesbian moments
but that doesn't explain itself too well
as to why these two chicks are kissing
one another since they both have a thing
for guys later on. Plus there's a good
touching moment between the girlfirned
and boyfriend close to the ending when
one of them is dying from Jennifer's
bite. Also what is really tense to see is
when these two girls have a battle of
survival in a bedroom one of them is
caught by their mother in which leaves
you a scary feeling that there is no
escape from this since you've been cuaght
redhanded and no one would believe you
about the other one having evil powers.
The bottom line is the cover box looks
like it would be a fun horror flick and
it is which just saves the film to be
consisered above average but there is
alot of hokey moments too in the film
which didn't seem to belnd in too well
and fails to make you laugh. It's a film
to watch if you're in the mood for a
typical teenage demonic vampire flick but
not a powerful one.
The acting is not
too bad at all as lead actress Megan
Fox (Jennifer Check) really knew how to act lustful
and stuck up along with behaving very
mysterious along with her evil speaking
in which she really drew attention to the
public eye by portraying a horror
character in the film. However she didn't
present herself that way in the beginning
of the film till things got really
rolling. She had the nice beautiful looks
too which was a nice plus though.
Amanda Seyfried (Needy Lesnicki) really knew how to
come across as someone a tiny bit shy and
feeling like she doesn't fit into a
popular crowd. She did come across almsot
like Carrie White but yet had a romance
in her life and a few friends who were
outsiders too. She does well with her
stern attitude when she needed to be that
way as well as bringing on the energy
when she acted violent in the film which
she can act very suspenseful while doing
all of this. Nice freaked out reaction on her during a scene with someone spitting out black liquid. There's a good aggression by her when someone approaches her room
demanding her to leave.
Johnny Simons (Chip Dove) seemed to come across
as a bit of a dorky teen in the film but
really portrayed this well as another
outsider but yet really came across
nicely as an outgoing one in the flick.
He had the nice guy next door looks too
which probably convinced him to be cast
along with having that type of personaity
too.
Juan Riedinger (Dirk) really had the
perfect tough guy looks to be a rocker
type in the film along with having a good
cocky and sleazy attitude. Plus he really
knew how to act vicious when he shows his
true colours in the film.
Supporting actor J.K. Simmons (Mr. Wrobleski) really
grabbed my attention as an eccentric
schoolteacher in the film with his clawed
hand in which he seemed to come across as
creepy like when teaching his students
but at the same time he was quite corny
and comedic too while doing this. Still
he did an okay job with this character.
A body is torn open in a
forest
Another body is torn open in a house with
Jennifer drinking the blood
A guys neck is bitten and bloodied
Jennifer is bloodied and battered in the
end
The music was put together
by Stephen Barton and Theodore
Shapiro but yet it's not overly
noticeable except for some of the odd
dark keyboard playing for some of the
dark and creepy scene's as well as the
bumping sounds too. Most of the music was
covered by many songtracks. The one that
stood out the most was towards the end of
the film by the band Hole with
"Violet" as I always loved that
song.
Needy Lesnicky:
Jennifer's evil.
Chip Dove: I know.
Needy Lesnicky: No. I mean, she's
actually evil. Not high school evil. |
