Huh, okay this movie is older than I thought. But, Amber Heard is hot and she does good horror, and that's the important thing, right? Can't believe I haven't seen this movie yet. Must be slipping in my old age.
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006) is about a girl named Mandy Lane (Amber Heard) who fills out one summer, and suddenly, all the boys in high school are after her. Which, is usually the way of the animal kingdom. Once the females come into estrus, the males begin sniffing around them until the strongest of them can claim her. Mandy was friends with a bit of a geeky fellow named Emmett, but once she got hot, all bets are off, as if often the case with high school friendships. Now Mandy is convinced to attend a gathering of friends at one's ranch house, and the six of them, plus one ranch hand, are all hanging out when... wait, did I say six? Let's do a head count... six, seven, eight... HEY WAITAMINUTE! Who's the extra? :-o
This movie wasn't bad at all, really. No monsters, so, there's MY disappointment. But not everyone requires monstrosity in their horror flicks, so this may completely qualify as horror for some of you folks out there. There's a high body count, at least, percentage wise, and there's suitable blood and gore here and there. There's nudity, and even your standard "drunken kids behaving badly and making bad decisions" features. There's even a twist! :-o What more could you ask for in a horror film?
I would give this one a good viewing, and definitely rewind to the part about 55 minutes in where Mandy Lane (Amber Heard) escorts drunken chick-friend (Whitney Able) into bathroom and there's some definite foreplay going on, there. And I'm not sure if either one of them realized it, so it's like, totally innocent hot-chick foreplay, which is the BEST kind of foreplay. You just KNOW they're going to just start ripping each other's clothes off, have hot sweaty drunken sex right there on the bathroom floor, and then regret it in the morning, because it'll be completely awkward, and then, after weeks of kind of pussy-footing (heh, I said pussy-footing) around it, and avoiding each other, they'll just start banging like rabbits. And then, you've got a pair of lesbians on your hands. And who doesn't want a pair of lesbians sitting on their hands? Exactly. And then, of course, those fucking ASSHOLE guys knock on the door and ruin everything. I hate them. I totally fucking hate them.
So, good movie, no monsters, bit of nudity, hot chicks aplenty, some supposedly teen-aged sex but come on, everyone in this movie is in their 20's or 30's or something, so it's not really teen sex. More of a murder mystery with a twist, and okay, I admit it, I didn't see this one coming, but I WAS wondering why the killer's identity was so obvious, and revealed so damn early on. Usually it's a big reveal near the end, but they just kind of go "Yep, it's this guy, you knew it was." in the middle, and it completely threw me off, because then I was focused on the WHY they revealed the killer so early and I wasn't looking for the expected big reveal at the end. Totally threw me off. You got me! I admit it. You got me. Well done.
Short review tonight, because I've been out wandering the countryside, taking pics of fall foliage today, and just barely squeaked the movie in before midnight. Alas, I didn't finish typing up the review til shortly after. Oh well! Catch you guys tomorrow night, hopefully earlier. :-)
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