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2.0 out of 5 stars
Great ending, August 24, 2009
This review is from: Summer School (DVD)
This film has a great ending...just what the horror buff ordered...but it took so long to take off, I'm not sure many viewers could last until the end. If you like low-budget...but creative horror...this one's for you. It's not a film you'd want to see more than once...a good rental for a group of young fans. 2 1/2 stars!
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Inventive, but amateur (and not a remake)., March 8, 2011
This review is from: Summer School (DVD)
Summer School (Ben Trandem, 2006)
Clever take on the anthology-horror genre that would have been much better with a higher caliber of actor, but is still sharp and amusing enough for a rental. Charles (Simon Wallace) runs a movie review blog, and the night before summer school began, he spent his time catching up on horror flicks. He gets to his physics class early, slumps down, falls asleep, and then goes through a series of nightmares that mirror the plots of the movies he'd watched the night before, all featuring the other folks in the class: cute softball player Lindsey (Amy Cocchiarella), class burnouts Steve (Papier-Mache's Tony Czech) and Dennis (Lance Hendrickson), their teacher (Living Dead Girl's Jennifer Prettyman), and a cop who's in the building to make sure the burnouts stay in class (Fall into Me's Ty Richardson).
Trandem did the frame, but each of the stories is done by a different person. One of the things that makes this movie interesting is that these are all first-timer directors who have industry experience in other parts of the job (Mike P. Nelson is a successful sound designer, most recently on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives; Hendrickson is an actor; Steve Rhoden is a make-up guy; Troy McCall is a cinematographer; Trandem is in special effects). And you kind of get what you'd expect; it feels a lot like a first movie of the "man, when directors do that, it's cool! We should do that!" variety, but you have to love the enthusiasm these guys bring to the table. That's also true for most of the actors (Cocchiarella has since gone on to production assistancy, and thank heaven for that. Gorgeous, but not an actor). Don't get me wrong, as should be obvious you can't go into this expecting Winter's Bone, because you will inevitably be disappointed. But as long as you're used to low-budget amateur horror flicks, you'll get a kick out of this one. ***
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