Review of Stupid Teenagers Must Die (2006) by Nathan P — 18 Apr 2008

The only reason this movie gets two stars is because a group of friends decided they wanted to make a horror movie, did it, and somehow got it released in chain-video-stores across the U.S. and finally made me pick it up. It wasn't that good though.

Both the dvd box, and the actual dvd exclaim, "Warning: This movie depicts gruesome violence and gratuitous nudity." And, as you guessed, there was neither. Showing a couple of topless girls isn't "gratuitous nudity" and showing bad make-up and effects for blood and guts doesn't constitute a disclaimer of "gruesome violence.".

The plot was pretty terrible, b/c unlike the genre of film they were spoofing, 80's horror classics, there was no killer. The killer was a spirit. Not one of the friends or some supernatural dude that has an agenda to just kill horny teenagers, it was just a spirit of a guy who murdered his family, and b/c the stupid kids didn't say goodbye after their seance he is going to murder them all.

Also, they didn't try to make it look like it was actually in they 80's, at least not very hard. They drove what looked like a ford Escape to the party, instead of something believable. Also, the attire of the characters was pretty bad. I understand that bad horror movies usually has stereotypical characters in it, which this movie also had, but they didn't just make them stereotypes of teenagers, but different parts of the 80's as well. There was the madonna look-a-likes, the polo-shirt wearing prep, the biker w/his slicked back hair and leather jacket, the two nerds wearing their fav. bands t-shirt, and probably most disappointing was that the only African-American character was wearing a Micheal Jackson red jacket. Just b/c he is black, he is gonna wear the MJ jacket, c'mon, everyone in the 80's wanted and wore that jacket, probably more white kids than black.

Overall, I enjoyed this film b/c it was a group of friends making a spoof horror movie, and it took off. So, maybe it wasn't the film I enjoyed so much, but the way it came about. I also, think these kids that made this think that they know more about horror films than they actually do.

I rented this w/a friend and told him that this movie, b/c it stated twice how much violence and nudity it had, wouldn't have very much of either, and at the end after the credits, the people would say gotcha!

Well, it turned out to be true. After the credits, one of the characters looks at the camera and points and says, "Gotcha, hahaha!".

Who fuckin called it.