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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Anchor Bay Entertainment
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Anchor Bay Entertainment
  • 1 h 29 m

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 t...

Directed By: Derick Martini

Written By: Bret Easton Ellis, Michael Hornburg, Derick Martini

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Anchor Bay Entertainment
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Anchor Bay Entertainment
  • 1 h 29 m

The Curse of Downers Grove

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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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 t...

Directed By: Derick Martini

Written By: Bret Easton Ellis, Michael Hornburg, Derick Martini

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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60
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.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
42
Aug 20, 2015
Post-"The Canyons," this appears to be Ellis’ new, second-rate normal.
By Katie Rife FULL REVIEW
38
Aug 21, 2015
Alternately idiotic and boring horror thriller.
By Peter Sobczynski FULL REVIEW
30
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.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
30
Aug 20, 2015
The Curse of Downers Grove seems to be jumping on that 1990s teen slasher bandwagon two decades too late.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW
30
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.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
25
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.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company AliBella Pictures, Bystander Films, Management Production Entertainment (MPE), Mangrove Media, Myriad Pictures, O.D.D. Entertainment
Release Date Aug 21, 2015
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/the-curse-of-downers-grove.16010/
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