![]() Netflixable? A Stuttering Boy finds release in a sport popular on the Subcontinent - “Habaddi”.Perhaps Waterhouse realizes that, as well. But being second banana to the notoriously awful Dakota Johnson (google her and “bad actress”) tells us all we need to know about that. The requisite titillation of the dead (female) teenager movie genre isn’t remotely titillating - a shower scene here, a leotarded dance rehearsal there.Īnd through it all stands Waterhouse, stone-faced and stiff, underreacting to this death or that bit of peril, selling the fight sequence with all she (and a stunt double) have.Īt least she’s been cast in a new version of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion,” so perhaps that’s what was on her mind while Waterhouse was shooting this. Writer-director Simon Barrett makes sure that everyone looks fabulous, as most are playing pretty, vain princesses, and those who aren’t immediately fall under suspicion. There’s a generous sampling of horror “mystery” cliches in this script, plenty of this or that death/disappearance “doesn’t make any sense.” Is there a dead disgruntled alumna or something/someone else out to “get” the girls - picking them off one-by-one as they conveniently separate and find themselves alone and dead? But those scratching, creaking noises in the walls, lights constantly flickering out and apparitions mean that Alice’s seance-strategy is the one everybody pursues. She and Camille are interested in finding out. “Some people think that it was an accident,” Helina says. Luckily, the new girl with the English accent has one friend, Helina ( Ella-Rae Smith), even if Helina’s agenda leans towards friend-with-benefits.īut they’re all in the same boat at this “haunted” school, with the recent suicide, which created an opening for Camille, perhaps caused by a ghost and not by the mean girls tricking, scaring and humiliating her into leaping out a window. “You really don’t want to get on our bad side.” But WAS it? A suicide?Ĭamille crosses swords with the mean girl clique, led by Alice ( Inanna Sarkis) but including Roz ( Djouliet Amara), Yvonne ( Stephanie Sy), Bethany ( Madisen Beaty) and Lenora ( Jade Michael), young women of privilege prone to pranks. She’s utterly dreadful, but perhaps she hated the material and figured even “phoning it in” wasn’t worth the effort.Įxpressionless Camille shows up an Eveldine Academy just after a seance that led to a teen’s suicide. While her look, voice and name are distinctive, I don’t recall her standing out in “The Broken Hearts Gallery” or “Assassination Nation” the way she does here. Suki Waterhouse, a deep-voice/zero-range “model/actress” plays the “new girl” at a “Seance” obsessed boarding school in this week’s classmate killer horror thriller.
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