Ten

Teenage flick and a TV movie. Inspired by 10 Little Indians. But a poor copy. The acting and dialogue is very mediocre. Almost hysterical acting.

This story represents a society in its final collapse, unadulterated insanity has become normal

"Ten: Murder Island" is an Incredibly faithful adaptation of the book ("Ten") by Gretchen McNeil. The story is a modern day version of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None." The film is beautifully shot, well cast and acted, and a ton of FUN! It's a total throwback to my fave 90s horror slasher flicks of my childhood ("Scream," "I Know What You Did Last Summer," etc.). Really hope to see more from this director and talented cast.

Never read the book this is based on, but the movie was so annoyingly painful to watch. Ten teens go to an island vacation and get picked off one by one. Sounds good as a premise, but the way it was done was awful.

Person gets murdered -> Group's response: Let's all go up in hysterics and air out all our random high school drama, like who dated/dumped who and who cheated on this and that test! Perfectly normal reaction to just watching your best friends get murdered right next to you /s.

It honestly felt like someone who read the book just straight copy-pasted lines directly into the movie, even though it makes no sense to do so in the case of horror-level murders. It's like watching a horror movie and the protagonists just start randomly discussing their love life in complete, perfectly grammatical, non-teenager, book-like sentences in the middle of a chase scene - It kills all the tension and instead makes you hate all the characters. If it was adapted better, cutting the stiff, book-like narration, it would have probably been much better than it was.

Ten young adults, fresh out of Mariner high school, arrive at an isolated hotel where they are the only residents, having been invited by a trendy hipster, whose invitations to party cannot be ignored. Soon after the obligatory bickering one of the guests is found hanging from a stairway.

As the murders and disappearances continue to escalate so does the suspicion between the survivors and old grievances rise to the top, and soon the survivors are at each other's throats.

"Ten" is a movie based on a book that copies the plot of Agatha Christie's classic novel "And Then There Will Be None/Ten Little Indians", right down to the deaths.

However, what's a downer is that this movie doesn't really copy the ending of Christie's novel but instead copies the various previous movies' endings, which to those uninitiated, I won't give away.

To help propel the novel forward, there is tension between the two lead characters Meg (China Anne McClain) and her ex-boyfriend (Rome Flynn), which is detailed by the pages of a girl's diary, a girl that had previously committed suicide, that are continuously found scattered about the household. Refreshingly, the leads here are black, instead of being the first kills, they may be the heroes. Or maybe not. Watch and see. Also fun to watch was Angie Q who is the only one at first to use her noggin to realize that being suspicious of her fellow classmates may be the smart way to go.

All-in-all, a very entertaining movie, and while this plot has been ripped off dozens of times in the past, I just found this flick entertaining for what it was. It didn't bring anything new to the table, but it didn't subtract anything from it either. This is a movie meant for the early high school crowd, and I can't see why those wouldn't like it, although I don't know how it matches up against the book.