Teen Lust

I thought the premise of the film was lending itself to some fun. I was imagining a mix of magic used for pornographic reasons and devil ridden apostles trying to kill the protagonist. But in the end it was just uneventful, unsuspenseful and unfunny.

There isn't more I can say about it, except to fill the mandatory (and pointless!) ten lines, not because I can't find something, but because there really isn't anything worth telling. I think Jesse Carere is a talented young actor that was completely wasted on a really weak script.

Bottom line: waste of time.

My girlfriend and I saw this movie as part of a film festival in our city last week. We went in not knowing much more than a quick tag line, and weren't expecting much from a relatively low-budget Canadian production.

The storyline involves an 18-year-old student whose parents belong to a Satanic cult. After realizing that they want to sacrifice him because of his virgin blood, he sets out on a mission to lose his virginity by sunrise. Think "American Pie" meets "Superbad".

Having low expectations, I'm happy to say we were quite surprised with it. There were plenty of laughs and we were all chuckling a lot by the end. The two lead actors have a great rapport, probably due to them being good friends in real life, and all the others in supporting positions are just enough to keep things moving along at a good pace. A huge plus is that the movie never takes itself too seriously, and manages to poke fun at a lot of things at once.

We were also lucky enough to hear the director, producer, and one of the cast members (Annie Clark) talk about the creation of the film a bit. They were all quite personable and funny, which explains the tongue-in-cheek humour of the movie a lot.

All in all, it's absolutely worth the 90 minutes or so. It's no Shakespeare, but solid nonetheless!

Walking into this film I expected another dumb American Pie wannabe. But I was pleasantly surprised. So basically the film is about a teenager, Neil, who's parents are part of a church that wants him to never lose his virginity. However he soon discovers the church practices satanism and wants to sacrifice him to Satan. He flees with his friend Matt and they try to get Neil to lose his virginity and save the world. The cast give good performances, Cary Elwes steals the show as the leader of the church, and Darryl Sabara (Juni from Spy Kids) provides most of the film's laughs. Also the characters feel realistic. So yeah I give Teen Lust a 7/10 and if you like horror comedies or just want some good laughs I recommend this film.

Funny and fun. It felt like a horror movie version of Superbad, but not as good.

Some of it was clunky, but overall it was really entertaining. Torn between 6-7/10

The lead was a little too flat as the straightman, which is a bummer since his buddy was great on screen and it would have been nice if there was a little more chemistry between them.

Story and ending themselves were both fun. The last scene they stuck on the end was super bad though. They should have ended it when the story came to a conclusion or had a better epilogue.

At a mercifully brief 80 minutes Teen Lust does its best not to overstay its welcome, but even at that length, the jokes in this Canadian teen "horror comedy" spoof are starting to wear gossamer thin by the second half.

The first act has the lion's share of laughs and surprises as we are introduced to high school buddies and virgins Neil and Matt, who, themselves and their families, are part of a suburban Satanic worshipping church. Neither realises, unlike their parents and the other members, that a ceremony held just prior to Neil's 18th birthday will involve the young virgin lad being sacrificed to Satan. Neil escapes the knife of cult leader Sheldon played by a lovingly over-acting Cary Elwas and he and Matt thereafter engage in a continuous chase over the ensuing night, attempting to both evade pursuing Satanists, while trying to bust their cherries and thereby make their capture irrelevant.

Although promoted as such, there's no serious horror in this flick, which, despite its title, adopts an incredibly prim and proper perspective to the premise of 2 supposedly randy young guys trying desperately to bed any available females. There's more nudity in the theatrical release poster than in the film. Surely all Canadians don't continually try to bonk each other with their clothes on, as suggested in this movie, including inside brothels? And why do the boys continually make themselves very visible on the sides of busy, well - lit roads, if they are trying to hide from those hunting them?

There's a few giggles to be had involving Neil's skill with card tricks and Annie Clark is a welcome presence, as his true flame Denise, but Teen Lust does suffer a few identity problems in the second half, where it doesn't seem to quite know whether to ramp up the laughs or the thrills of the chase. All in all, it's a mildly amusing diversion of short duration, guaranteed not to leave any lasting memories, good or otherwise.