Rotten
Glacial pacing and a series of highly unlikely plot contrivances manage to obscure positive attributes and leave you feeling like you've just seen a rather mediocre TV movie-of- the-week.
Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News
Hangman's Curse
Watch your locker, watch your back, watch your soul.
2003 · 1h 46m · PG-13
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Rafal Zielinski
Overview
Bullying students are becoming deathly ill after screaming the name of a legendary ghost. What's to blame? An exotic illness? An illicit drug? Or is it the supernatural? The clues are few and time is running out for the students of Rogers High School. The only hope is the Veritas Project, a highly trained investigative team working undercover to expose the truth. Lives hang in the balance as they scramble to unravel the mystery and protect the student body from their own hatred and fear.
Director and cast
- Rafal Zielinski Director
- David Keith as Nate Springfield
- Mel Harris as Sarah Springfield
- Douglas Smith as Elijah Springfield
- Leighton Meester as Elisha Springfield
- Jake Richardson as Ian Snyder
- Bobby Brewer as Leonard Baynes
- Daniel Farber as Norman Bloom
- Edwin Hodge as Blake Hornsby
- Andrea Morris as Crystal Sparks
- William R. Moses as Coach Marquardt
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
We definitely could use more wholesome teenage flicks, but Hangman's Curse is just plain hokum -- not so much for the values it tries to convey, but the slipshod way it conveys them.
Lou Carlozo, Chicago Tribune
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