This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, but when they start being murdered, one by one, it's clear that someone knows the truth. Also coping with the past are members of the dead girl's family, most notably her prom-queen sister, Kim Hammond (Jamie Lee Curtis).
If you forget motivation, the visual trick-or-treat of slow revenge is entertaining enough.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
Because it's quite easy to figure out the killer's identity by simply keeping track of who is off screen a lot, much of the movie is just vamping for time.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
rotten:
Why do people go to these movies?
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
Director Paul Lynch seems to capture the spirit of the genre here, but spends a little too much time setting up each murder, thus eliminating some suspense.