Someone made a slasher flick and forgot the fun. This movie is far too self-serious for the genre. Also it needs a title that makes a damn bit of sense for the movie they made. Yeesh.

This slasher flick is about a killer who reveals your deepest secret to the world and then kills you. Which kind of seems pointless… pretty sure your concerns about your deepest darkest secret being revealed is moot when you have a butcher knife in your heart. But anyway, the killer’s other gimmick is that he wears a mask… only it’s a shitty mask that’s supposed to look like the victim but, to me, doesn’t. Thought it was a cheap Tom Cruise mask the first time… maybe a reference to the Halloween mask but I guess I asked too much.

Anyhow, this movie wants to take itself and the problems of these teens far too seriously and the movie is just duller for it. It doesn’t help the kids are really boring and one-note stereotypes. They try to give one of the characters more depth and a focus on an atypical romance but that largely fails since it only exists to be a red herring.

I guess, to be fair, the movie does have a nice soundtrack… and the kills are quite gory. Probably the volumes of blood spilled doesn’t really match the self-serious tone though… maybe that should have been reserved for something more fun or trashy.

Anyhow, ya’ll, we all wear masks and other such pompous pomposity.

This movie just doesn’t work. It either needed to be less serious or it needed to have something more to say with three dimensional characters if it really felt like sticking with it serious tone. Without either, this is just a plodding bore.

Score: 68