Truly Scary and One Cliche

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2020)

Excellent lensing and direction, with only one jump scare. The tension grows steadily as the curse spreads from one teen to another. The terror scenes start quietly and then explode. Miss Monroe begins her performance low key, but rises to the challenge for the hysterical moments. Among those is her recovery after the swimming pool scene...I've neven seen such a moment like this played better. And, of course, as her friends have it, she is disgustingly pretty. Part of that is a shapely upper lip. In the end of the movie, she chooses for her mate a small, nebbishy Jewish guy...instead of one of the big, hunky Gentiles around. This is such a common occurrence in teen movies--hot blond shiksa chooses the smallish Jew--that you can count on it. A teen-movie cliche, along with the loud, dumb and bullying goyim. Why does Hollywood love to present this little parable? Go figure.