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It´s a cliché that I seldom use, since I hate clichés, but here goes: This movie´s only positive quality is that it really is so incredibly bad that it becomes not good but enjoyable and funny. When D´Andra Simmons popped up playing the cop I felt like it was the icing on the cake for me (I´m a huge real housewives fan). I wish Lifetime would take all the elements of this movie and actually work on it a little, get better actors and a better script, and make it a nice little thriller with teenagers and psycho cultists. It seems easy in theory so I don´t know how they could possibly have ruined it in every way with this movie, but I´m not even joking, there is not a single thing that works here, except the main actress was okay.

I was bored right from the start. Everything was clunky and almost nothing made sense. Like, why didn´t the boy pretend to be dumb? It would have been cool if he acted stupid but then suddenly showed how bright he was, but no, he couldn´t even lie a little bit? That was a weird choice... A scary villain needs some mystery. I predicted the ending easily. The main characters should have built up a friendly relationship in order for us to care at all. Then the back story came out of nowhere, like a corny melodrama lol I could almost say that literally every line in the script was off. It was disjointed, just going from one big (stupid) twist to the next without connecting them together. Although, in a way I am glad they didn´t do that because then the movie would have been longer and I kept nodding off through out, thinking about the fun I would have going to bed early just as soon as I had finished watching it. I don´t know why but I expected way more.

The actress who played the girlfriend is very pretty but she can´t act, everyone else was blah except Noah who played creepy rather well.

It is quite a good movie and doesn´t stray far from the book at all. It kept all the necessary characters and basic plotline. I just finished reading the book a few days ago and couldn´t wait to watch this (again - I last saw it when it came out in ´95) but I have to say that seeing Emma Thompson play a 19 year old just wasn´t the right choice. If she had to play a part it should have been the mother, they could have aged her a bit and it would have been perfect. After reading the other reviews I know this will be an unpopular opinion but really, isn´t it a bit much to have a 36 year old plain woman playing a 19 year old beauty? Because Elinor was supposed to be very good looking, just not as stunning as her younger sister. Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant were both absolutely gorgeous in their roles.