Review of Most Likely to Die (2015) by Brett H — 01 Nov 2016

Most Likely To Die is an extremely lame, almost cartoonish slasher film with a great idea, but not enough ingenuity or passion to truly bring it to life and the only cool thing it has to offer is the killer's outfit.

The premise has a great hook: a group of friends gather for their high school reunion and are soon killed off one by one in a similar fashion to their yearbook superlative, but that's about as far as the creativity got.

The film stars what look like a bunch of CW rejects lucky enough to get some work with the only recognizable names being Jake Busey, who's in the film for maybe five minutes until he's lamely killed off, and Perez Hilton who is nearly forty and is trying to pass himself off as the same age as the much younger cast.

As mentioned, the killer's outfit is actually pretty bad-ass: a cap-and-gown graduation outfit with a papier-mâché mask created with yearbook photo and the cap is made of metal and razor sharp to be used as a weapon on more than one occasion.

Cool costume aside, this movie is lame as hell with boring, generic high school archetypes, cheesy acting, and poor attempts at using the superlatives for the deaths. We get kills using "most likely to have her name in lights", "most likely to break hearts", and "most likely to get what they want", but the set-ups are so contrived that it feels like a REALLY bad Urban Legend knock-off.

There are no scares, you can guess the killer very easily, and what's worse is when the killer is revealed, the motive makes absolutely no damn sense and you end up face-palming as opposed to gasping.

The movie gets creativity points for the costume and the use of the sharpened hat to both decapitate one girl and stab another, but that's all this "horror" film has to offer and I was beyond relieved when it finally ended.

Also has a trite, last-minute set-up for a sequel, but I doubt that will ever come to fruition.