The Curse of Downers Grove

Name: The Curse of Downers Grove
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: August 21, 2015
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 31

2015

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Anchor Bay Entertainment | Release Date: August 21, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood, but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret. For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson (Bella Heathcote) has a terrible feeling that she is going toThe town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood, but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret. For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson (Bella Heathcote) has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret? [Anchor Bay Entertainment]… Expand

Director: Derick Martini

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Simon Abrams

Aug 23, 2015

The Curse of Downers Grove coasts on pulpy fumes thanks to its creators' effective emphasis on circumstantial peril over character-driven drama. Read full review

Katie Rife

Aug 20, 2015

Post-"The Canyons," this appears to be Ellis’ new, second-rate normal. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Aug 21, 2015

Alternately idiotic and boring horror thriller. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Aug 20, 2015

Co-scripted by a slumming Bret Easton Ellis, The Curse of Downers Grove is all over the place in tone, never managing to decide what kind of film it wants to be. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Aug 20, 2015

Although it’s being marketed as a horror film, The Curse of Downers Grove turns out to be something else — a messy hash of teen soap opera, stalker thriller and whatnot whose titular, possibly supernatural aspect is basically irrelevant. Read full review

Martin Tsai

Aug 20, 2015

The Curse of Downers Grove seems to be jumping on that 1990s teen slasher bandwagon two decades too late. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 23, 2015

Curse of Downer’s Grove is so awful it’s no fair to lay it all at the feet of the co-writer, who didn’t direct or cast this disaster, after all. Read full review

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quincytheodore

Aug 23, 2015

A weak pretentious stalker movie masked as horror with creepy title.

Let's get the premise clear, there is barely any curse in this movie. It only used as a pretext to shoehorn script made of Facebook cheesy one-liners from a typical teenager's page. The movie is shallow and barelyA weak pretentious stalker movie masked as horror with creepy title.

Let's get the premise clear, there is barely any curse in this movie. It only used as a pretext to shoehorn script made of Facebook cheesy one-liners from a typical teenager's page. The movie is shallow and barely presents any thrill at all, it merely produces predictable story with abundance of flamboyant dialogues that only serve as lackluster musing.

Chrissie is a senior high school student at Downers Grove. There's a strange curse that a senior will die before graduation. It creates a sort of Final Destination foreshadowing at start, but this curse is far-fetched to say the least. The story is a straight forward, slow-moving stalker cliché and despite its relatively short runtime, the movie feels highly tedious.

Chrissie uses monologues a lot, as in almost every five minutes. When she's not doing that, she's spewing commentary about life or religion. It's an effort to give this average brunette female lead some depth to her character so audience would invest on her. Unfortunately, her bantering sounds authentic, almost to the point of reading from cat poster.

She even delivers monologue on the scenes where she has no business in. This gets old fast since it sounds preachy and self-righteous. It doesn’t help when the other characters are too one-dimensional, probably in the exception of her younger brother who reminds me of young John Connor. The actors perform their characters rigidly and even though the movie tries to give mystery about them or the near irrelevant curse, you'll see the twist from miles away.

For a movie with grim title of The Curse of Downers Grave, it is incredibly feeble and timid. I guess Cheap Scream Knock-off wouldn't generate any interest, but unfortunately that's what this movie is.… Expand

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