Paul Evans
It's perhaps worthy of a lightly higher score then it's currenty showing, it's somewhere between a 5.5 and a 6. It certainly looks nice, it's a slick and stylish movie, it's nicely shot, definitely visually appealing. The story is pretty good, of course there are holes in it, the first being what on Earth was in that tea? For a teen horror though it's pretty good, especially for a TV movie. Dont expect miracles, but it's diverting enough. 6/10
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A not very tightly written story about a mentally unwell girl in a dorm who is manipulated by her new "friends". Starts well but soon becomes a muddled mess. Only watch if you have time to kill and are really bored.
Michael Ledo
This is a made for TV film. Ugly duckling Vivian (Alexis Knapp) with low self esteem transfers to another university where no one knows her after her suicide attempt. She is befriended by the dorm and is taken under the wing of Sarah (Cassie Steele) who transform her into a swan with some natural tea. Vivian gets herself a hot boyfriend (Max Lloyd-Jones) but realizes there are some odd things going on and it is not just her normal voices in her head.The film feels slightly disjointed and the climax lacked the needed cinematography. The film left me expecting more, but didn't deliver.As far as I know there is no such religion as "pre-Babylonian Albanism.
begob
A mentally unwell student is accepted by her new dorm-mates, who transform her into a confident beauty with a mysteriously intoxicating tea. But she grows suspicious of their motives and begins to find hallucinatory evidence of something amiss.Standard occult conspiracy horror that probably reveals its twist too early - if the emphasis on the missing student had been held back to the very end, when the protagonist has to confront her, and the confrontation had been more involved, it would have heightened the effect. And the end sequence didn't create much sense of loss. It's pretty well made by a director who seems to do mostly TV, but the sex 'n gore is tame and nobody's going to get extreme chills just from the plot, unlike say The Skeleton Key, which shares elements of the concept. Lead actress is impressive, and a striking beauty too, and the rest of the cast do fine.Maybe the biggest problem with this is the music - it sometimes has an MTV feel, with one tense scene ruined as miserable strumming competes with the dialogue. And the sound effects are a bit hammy.Overall, watchably average. And a short run time.