A_Different_Drummer While it is all well and good to do "clever" films like Cabin in the Woods that de-construct the genre, the real challenge is to the film right from the getgo.Here I think the very talented director Jonathan Levine succeeds. Possibly the best slasher flick in decades.Aside from a really tight script, and direction/cinematography on par with a Hollywood "A" flick, we also have generally top-rate performances from the young cast.Of particular interest is Anson Mount, five years before Hell on Wheels, stealing every scene that is not otherwise nailed down.Years ago a reviewer said that the test of a good slasher film is whether, in spite of the body count, the viewer would want to be in the film because everyone seems to be having a good time time.This film passes that test.

DogFilmCritic I had the same problem in this movie as with "House of the Devil" it was so hard to be an homage to classic slasher movies from the seventies and eighties, it forgets to be a movie of its own, people usually say "you don't get it, its supposed to be like that" i don't mind the essence but i expect more of a just run and stab, in the end all movies are trying to tell a story but now its more focused on looking like an old movie in every single way. There's so little reasons on WHY the killing is done, to the point its just hinted out, half of the movie its just teens being teens, that i have to admit they really nailed it, thats something good they act like actual teenagers do booze hungry, hormone crazy, insecure, trying to prove others there better than them, that was well done. The title of the movie to me sounded more like a revenge flick like "I spit on your grave" i wasn't expecting to turn out the way it did, Amber Heard really knows how to use what she is giving to work with and she pulls it of very well as the rest of the cast but thats probably it, honestly you don't have to rub two brain cells to know who is the killer, its painfully predictable, the cliché characters are all there, but I've seen worst, i just was expecting something different, prove me wrong or agree,out of curiosity give it a watch.

Michael O'Keefe Mandy(Amber Heard)is on their minds. All the boys want Mandy Lane; nothing special...just drop dead gorgeous, orphaned and believed to be a virgin. At school even girls stand at their lockers and watch Amber strut her stuff down the hall. At a pool party, guys gather and listen to all the bravo remarks about who would actually be the first to have sex with Mandy. Moods swing when a class mate is killed. Red(Aaron Himelstein)decides to invite a smaller group, including Mandy of course, to a weekend party at his family's isolated ranch. This weekend retreat unintentionally turns a bit comical and it is a shame there are no characters likable to miss when the slashing and stabbing begins. My question is why Mandy wants to hang out with such idiots? No real plot to be found; just your standard slasher flick. True, there are some disturbing scenes, sexuality and nudity. Drug use and language help earn an R rating. If this is your introduction to Miss Heard; it is not likely you'll forget her.Also in the cast: Anson Mount, Whitney Able, Adam Powell, Luke Grimes, Michael Welch and Brooke Bloom.

MisterWhiplash A critic once said this movie is a 'thinking man's slasher flick". Sure. If you've got a bag of rocks for a brain.All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is ugly looking, terrible characters, and when it tries to get you invested, guess what, there's nothing there to invest, except the same tired clichés and even misogyny that I could detect with the title characters treatment. And just when it was bad it got unpleasant with the round of twists in the last ten minutes it just got worse. If only a shred of character development had happened, maybe it would have something. But its an Emperor Has No Clothes thing, it has an air that more is there than could ever possibly happen that works well; sad that somehow the guy that has had a solid track record so far (I should say later as the release was reversed): the Wackness and warm bodies and especially 50/50. How this was worthy of his time and effort, I mean, in terms of directorial style here it's like a poor man's Tony Scott... which is saying a LOT.