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LD Entertainment,

Jennifer Carpenter, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Rufus Sewell, Thomas McDonell, Adelaide Kane, Leah Pipes, Colm Meaney, Stacey Edwards, Ric Reitz, Katie Garfield

Eighteen years ago in this small New England town, six girls were all born on the same day. The leaders of the fanatical religious cult believe it to be the sign of the devil coming to their town. Now on the 18th birthday, all of the girls disappear. Is the curse real, or is it just religion run amok?

There are different tiers within the horror genre. There are a number of shelves on which you can place a particular film. Different people have different preferences. This goes into the religious cult with the psycho leader gone crazy for power of his followers lives. I must admit, this is one of the horror categories that doesn’t typically impress me. So it was with this film. This is a pretty fair story. I have seen many other films of this kind that were much worse. Suspense-wise, this movie is pretty up there, and the acting isn’t too bad for a B horror film. I just really didn’t get into the story, and I found my mind wandering from time to time as it wasn’t intense enough to keep me enthralled. So basically it was a pretty decent little low budget horror film, but not enough for me to give a glowing recommendation. If you like horror, especially ones about mad cult leaders, go for it, but there’s a lot better horror films out there.

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Paramount Pictures , Nickelodeon Movies , Anonymous Content,

Victoria Justice, Thomas McDonell, Jane Levy, Thomas Mann, Osric Chau, Jackson Nicoll, Josh Pence, Johnny Knoxville, Chelsea Handler, Thomas Middleditch

Wren (Victoria Justice) has big plans for a Halloween Party when her Mom (Chelsea Handler) informs her that she’s babysitting her brother so Mom can go out. Wren’s not too happy about that, but soon brother disappears out of sight in a sea of trick-or-treaters, and Wren and a bunch of her friends set out on a city wide quest to search for him. What follows is chaos and piles of trouble. But just when it seems Wren has no hope of finding her brother, her true friends come shining through to help her see what’s been right in front of her eyes all along.

The trouble with this movie is that I’ve seen it many times. It started with Clueless and Adventures in Babysitting, and went on and on, through many revisions. One of the latest was Jonah Hill’s “The Sitter”. There isn’t anything really unique in this film. It has decent moments, and is rather funny, but it is SO derivative.

Well, there is certainly an audience for this film, and it’s not at all bad for the teen girl crowd who haven’t seen all the other films. They’re going to recognize the new faces from shows they watch, and enjoy the slapstick humor and gags. It’s Halloween themed, which ads to the fun, and it has a romance story or two thrown in. So I’m sure it’s going to be very popular with the under 20 crowd. It’s nice to see Jane Levy, TV’s Tessa from Suburgatory in a funny role that adds a lot. Even Johnny Knoxville is here. But for the over 21 crowd, I doubt you’re going to be impressed with this film. Like me, you’re likely to say, “Hey, I’ve seen this all before”. And you’d be right.

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Rickshaw Productions, Walt Disney Pictures

Aimee Teegarden, Thomas McDonell, DeVaughn Nixon, Danielle Campbell, Yin Chang, Jared Kusnitz, Nolan Sotillo, Cameron Monaghan, Kylie Bunbury, Joe Adler

Prom and high school graduation are approaching for a group of seniors, but when the prom decorations are destroyed in an act of school vandalism, the class president Nova (Aimee Teegarden) is left in a lurch. Everyone else is pre-occupied with finding dates and dresses, SAT tests and preparing for college, so Nova is left to rely on the principal forcing the school bad-bod to help her out. But when he’s there for her when she needs it, she starts looking at him in differently.

Prom is a teen movie, but Disney has done a great job with this one. It’s a really cute movie, especially for those waiting to go to prom, or to reminisce for those who have already been. When I was a kid (before electricity) prom was not such a big deal. Asking a girl to prom was like….”Would you like to go to prom with me?”. Now it seems to be some kind of competitive ritual with everyone trying to outdo everyone else. I remember in the 60’s when a perfect date to impress a girl for the L.A. kids was to take your date for dinner, in San Francisco. Tickets were like $25.00 round trip, and the flights from LA to SFO departed about every 20 minutes. Well, now invitations to the prom are much bigger than proposals. Kids are renting airplane banners, paying for announcements on the Laker scoreboard, paining signs on the outside of the school, Taking out ads on TV, baking cakes with prom invites, and on and on. It seems like how you ask is much more important that how you ask. No idea when this started or how, but it seems to be a big deal these days. Well this film is all about the run-up to prom and graduation and the struggles everyone goes through to get a date. It’s got a lot of humor, nice teen music, good looking kids, and a lot of heart. The major message is not to judge people by the outside, but it’s all wrapped up in lots of fun. I’m sure that the young crowd will enjoy this film, and if you missed it in the theater, be sure to catch it on DVD now that it’s out. Disney has a winner here, and I recommend it for those young at heart. Now, let’s go to Prom.

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