ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

opiaterein Big names like Wes Craven and Kal Penn can get away with anything. If those two names were not attached to this project, it would be largely unknown.Either that or the smaller names that took their places would have realized they had to actually work at making a film worth watching.There are precisely two main characters who I can bring myself to care about. Most of the acting is probably not bad, but the terrible acting (I'm looking at you, Kal Penn) makes it hard to notice anyone else's passable acting.I guess I'd summarize by saying that there's really no point watching this movie unless you just want to say you saw it.

Inkeater0003 Yeah so, like almost every horror movie, it has its cheesy moments. But with this film at least they picked actors who can actually act, so those cheesy moments are intentional. Maybe I'm bias because I'm a fan of Kal Penn, but he can act, as well as everyone else in this, and I think he's funny as a douche bag hipster. It's a new story I haven't seen a million times. There's more than just hunter and prey and it has a good solid story line build up before you get to find out who lives and dies. Best of all there's none of that loud noise, cheap scare bulls---. I watched 30 new (to me) horror and slasher films for October this year and I have to say this was my favorite.

nickijjohnson 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.

J_Brian *SPOILERS AHEAD... From the very beginning, this movie is riddles with clichés. First (CLICHE #1) we have a girl who walks alone through a dark parking lot late at night even after her friend offers to give her a ride to her car. (CLICHE #2) This girl gets followed home by the killers and is killed. Then has her death pic taken by them.Next (CLICHE #3), we have the cops who don't believe the lead girl, Colleen, who comes to them with the dead parking lot girl photo that was left posted on a bulletin board in the grocery store she works by someone who obviously got in after hours. Instead (CLICHE #4), the cops dismiss it as a hoax by a photographer.So, (CLICHE # 5) Colleen tells her boyfriend "I can take of myself" and decides to go back to work in the dark grocery store - in the middle of the night ALONE because she works the "AM shift" - even though she knows that a possible murderer got in after hours and posted a photo of a mutilated girl on the bulletin board. She thought it was really enough to go to the cops. And why is she working the AM shift alone? DOESN'T ANYONE ELSE WORK AT THIS GROCERY STORE? Oh yeah, because the writer has to try to build suspense and tension by getting the girl alone in the dark somehow (CLICHE #6).When a celebrity photographer and his group show up in town to capitalize on the real killer's photos, the first thing they do is actually take of picture of the killer's vehicle (which, of course, they don't it belongs to the killer) and leave a business card on the window to invite them to a party. Gee, what better way to get the killers to know where your party is. I don't think this is really a cliché, just a stupid coincidence... and coincidentally it is really stupid writing. Really. Stupid. Writing. (CLICHE #7) When the killers leave another pic of a dead girl, this time on Colleen's car, once again, the cops don't really take it that seriously. And then, (CLICHE #8) she decides it's best to go home ALONE rather than accept a police escort!Here's something else that's just totally stupid... During business hours, Colleen's a checkout girl at the grocery store and she actually types in the UPC number of every single grocery item because the scanner is busted. Which could take ALL DAY!!!! AREN'T THERE OTHER CHECK OUT LANES IN THIS GROCERY STORE THAT SHE COULD USE THAT DON'T HAVE BUSTED SCANNERS? For effeciency's sake, a grocery store manager would have never allowed her to use this lane unless it was the only one available, which it isn't.We never really understand why the killers are obsessed with torturing Colleen with these photos or killing her friends.The only reason I gave this thing a 5 is because I really enjoyed the scenes of the killings. Very brutal stuff.