Runtime:
90 minutes
Release
Date: April 25, 2016
Rating:
NR?
Director:
Anthony DiBlasi
Ashley
is your classic high school popular girl who still thinks she's in
high school. She landed the hot hockey player who just recently got
cut from the NY Rangers and is less than happy about it. Since the
two made plans to host some of their former classmates the night
before their big reunion though, she tries to cheer him up on the way
to his remote beach house where he's waiting for her. She arrives,
puts on the smallest graduation robe I've ever seen, and follows a
series of notes around the house that she thinks he left for her. The
notes actually come from a killer who stalks her through the house
before killing her.
Not long
after, the other guests begin arriving. Gaby became a professional
poker player who somehow plays professionally despite choking on big
hands and having huge tells. She's not too happy to learn that Brad,
the high school boyfriend who dumped her and became a big star, is
coming. Nor is she happy when he shows up with his supermodel new
girlfriend. There's also the girl most likely to succeed, the guy who
was the class clown, and Freddie, who was/is gay, later became an
alcoholic, wound up in jail, and broke parole to hang out with his
old friends. Jake Busey even pops up as Tarkin, the former owner of
the town's liquor store who sold alcohol to minors, later lost his
job, and is now the caretaker of the house.
Not long
after arriving, they talk about something bad that they did years
ago. It's super confusing, but the gist is that they defaced a kid's
picture in the yearbook. They also did some other stuff to him I
guess, but the school recalled the yearbook, which featured his face
scratched out and most likely to die beneath it. The kid was so
depressed that he moved to San Francisco with his mom, and rumor says
that he later killed himself. This is really all just exposition that
leads up to the moment when the killer finally strikes.
This
killer is one of the best I've seen in recent years. Instead of
running around with a ton of weapons, he primarily uses his
graduation cap, which has a thin and super sharp razor along the
edge. Literally, what can you say about a film that shows a killer
killing someone by slamming the corner of his graduation cap into the
center of her forehead multiple times as blood spurts out? Or when
someone gets a utility knife right across the eyes? My roommate came
down in the middle of one death scene and kind of just stood to one
side to watch what happened, then went upstairs and probably added it
to his own Netflix queue.
And yes,
there were moments/scenes you know are coming. You know that as soon
as Brad sees Gaby that he'll somehow realize he doesn't love his
supermodel girlfriend because he's still in love with her and that
they'll wind up together. Though honestly, who wouldn't fall in love
with Heather Morris? You also know that two other characters will
wind up in bed together because they conveniently had a crush on each
other in high school.
It's
even pretty easy to figure out who the killer is, if you pay enough
attention. I had a theory in mind that it would end like the original
Scream and have two different killers, but I was completely wrong. I
don't recommend movies a lot, but I definitely recommend Most Likely
to Die. It gets my nod as the top horror film of the month and one
that may be hard to beat.
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