All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

Plot synopsis:
At a Texas high school, Mandy Lane (Amber Heard) is a popular outsider. Fellow student, Dylan, (Adam Powell) invites her to a party at his house and she accepts with the provision that her best friend Emmet (Michael Welch) can attend also. At the party, Dylan and Emmet clash so Emmet goes to sit on the roof overlooking the pool watching Mandy. Dylan joins him and Emmet convinces him to jump from the roof to the pool to get Mandy's attention. Dylan jumps but misses, hitting his head on the edge of the pool and dies.Nine months later, Red (Aaron Himelstein) is having a party at his father's ranch and has invited Mandy along. She obtains permission from her Aunt (Peyton Hayslip) and agrees to go. Following from Dylan's death she now refuses to talk to Emmet. On the way to the ranch, the kids steal a keg from a driver (Robert Earl Keen) at a truck stop. When they arrive at the ranch Chloe (Whitney Able) won't drive her car over the cattle grid and so with a shortage of seats Mandy and Bird (Edwin Hodge) elect to walk to the ranch.While walking they are picked up by Garth (Anson Mount), the ranch hand. Once at the house they begin drinking and playing games. Mandy is the only one to stay sober. After a disparaging remark, Jake (Luke Grimes) walks out, followed by his girlfriend Marlin (Melissa Price). They stop in a cattle shed and, after engaging in oral sex, Jake leaves. Marlin is caught by a stranger and has her jaw broken by a shotgun. While looking for Marlin, Jake discovers her body and is shot by the stranger.Bird, Mandy, Red and Chloe are joined by Garth at the house after a stranger in Red's car fires fireworks at them on the porch. Bird chases the car, believing that Jake is the driver, but he encounters Emmet. During their fight, Emmet blinds Bird by cutting his eyes, chases him and finally stabs him to death. At the ranch, Garth stays over. Mandy falls asleep in the kitchen. Red and Chloe fall asleep on the couch.In the morning as they prepare to leave, Emmet shoots Garth. Red and Chloe escape out the back and run to Chloe's car. On the way they both encounter the bodies of Jake and Marlin. They reach the car and Red is shot as they kiss and, as she runs back to the ranch, Chloe finds the body of Bird. She is chased by Emmet in Red's car who has taken the keys from a dying Red. Meanwhile, Mandy retrieves the keys to Garth's jeep, and the hunting knife Emmet used to kill Bird. She then sees Chloe running towards the ranch, pursued by Emmet. As Chloe runs up to Mandy, she stabs Chloe in the stomach. While Chloe bleeds out, Emmet and Mandy discuss their plan.Emmet has kept a journal giving the reason behind the killings since he and Mandy have previously agreed to a suicide pact. However Mandy refuses to take the pills Emmet gives her. They fight. Garth shoots Emmet who then attacks Garth with a machete. A brief chase ensues and after Mandy falls into a pit of dead animals, Emmet jumps on top of her. They fight until Mandy manages to club him to death with a log. Mandy then returns to a wounded Garth and heads to his truck and they drive off.

Tags: horror, murder

Review:
Too much of this film is subjective; some shots are excellent and stylised but the content leaves a lot to be desired; some of the gore is well done; in the q & a on the DVD the lead actress talks about awkwardness in Mandy Lane's character as she took her clothes off to join the group in a lake - I saw a classic playboy disrobe shot of a pretty girl.
People would do silly things like dying for her too.In typical slasher flick formula, a group of students, Mandy included, organized themselves for a getaway in a secluded ranch, where a ranch hand Garth (Anson Mount) provides that element of question as to who amongst the group will be the hunter, and who will fall as prey.
Like how the formula warns against decadent teenage lifestyles, such as the unwritten rules of having the non-virgin being dispatched first and the likes, you're constantly kept guessing as everyone in the group, save for our goody-two-shoes Mandy, get sloshed in a flood of sin, with the smoking of weed, snorting of coke, being highly sexually charged and active, and downing alcohol as if it was water.It does take quite a while for the first person to fall, and you probably won't feel much for the characters that had to kick the bucket in the most violent of deaths, which get shown quite graphically, only to pull back at the last minute through visual tricks and edits the filmmakers use.
But for slasher flick fans, it's a long ride to get to this stage, and frankly speaking given that the characters all don't appeal to you (i.e. you couldn't care less if they live or die), the movie does seem to coast along the tried and tested, until its last act.Surprisingly, the narrative decided to reveal its boogeyman quite early on in the film, which provided some perplexing questions.
But it didn't take long to realize that "All the boys love Mandy Lane" is far from the typical Slasher Movie and that is because its in all ways superior done...
if you got a little bored with the genre like me "All the boys love Mandy Lane" is a real gem..
Anyway, despite being based on well worn movie clichés, "All The Boys Love Mandy Lane" was really rather good, not a bad movie at all, so the squad would have been forced to let me go.My interest in a film like this lives and dies on outside of what is going regarding the horror content.
"All The Boys Love Mandy Lane" also has a really good soundtrack of melancholy pop music, culminating in a song that everybody knows: One of the creepiest pop songs of all time.
The filmmakers do not forget that "All The Boys Love Mandy Lane" is supposed to be a horror movie.
The characters are all well defined and form a totally believable and generally likable group of friends, despite their human weaknesses.It's almost a surprise when people start being killed off because the film feels so real and doesn't bear any of the tired trademarks usually associated with the genre.
Mandy Lane is hot for sure but I think "like" is a mis-characterization of how all the boys feel about her.This is another one of those contemporary slasher flicks that ends on a very dark note.
Unfortunately, as soon as they arrive at the country house where the all the "horror" ensues the movie loses direction and gets boring.Most of the time "Mandy Lane" seems like a nostalgic hymn to the wild and careless life of young people.
Some time after, some of the kids at this school are going for a party at a secluded ranch and they decide to invite Mandy along...and after a while; they start being picked off one by one.It seems obvious that director Jonathan Levine was trying to make a movie in the seventies style, and for that reason it's a real shame that this wasn't better as I'm a big fan of the stuff that this takes influence from.
The camera hovers at breast height for the majority of the film especially when Mandy is running or jumping which is great!, but again makes you feel a bit guilty you are watching so avidly (maybe it is an English thing).The film gets plus points for...Good production but not overly glossy.The gore has been kept down but the murders still make you wince.Stays inside the classic 90 minute barrier.Keeps you guessing, you will work out the ending ahead of time but not before mixing it up with lots of other theories.Over all it is an okay film, takes a while to heat up then burns out fast.
I finished watching Mandy Lane about an hour ago, and felt the urge to come straight home and get up here to warn anyone that's about to spend money on the DVD - DON'T.The supporting characters are shallow, the failure of acting is higher than that of Matthew McConaughey movies, and up until the end twist, the plot is everything but obvious.
What could have saved this shallow, tedious movie is some decent splatter, or at least gore worthy of the genre "Slasher" - It fails there as well.If you need a background movie to a party that you can jump in and out of without missing anything, I recommend buying All The Boys Love Mandy Lane.If you're looking to sit down and actually concentrate your eyes on the screen for more than 15 seconds, I don't..
apart from Amber Heard (Mandy Lane), I can see why all the boys love her, she is smokein' her character develops more and more as the film goes on and Anson Mount he's also easy on the eye and is the only male in the movie with a good heart.
The rest of male cast are all simply unlikeable morons and the other female cast are sexy but they're horrible people, and I was glad when they started getting killed off one by one.All in all "All The Boys Love Mandy Lane" does have beautiful scenery to match the stunning cast, it's just that the movie is just wasn't my cup of tea and too boring, but I think Amber Heard will go on the bigger and better things than this, she's already recently starred in "Pineapple Express" which was a big hit, so Amber Heard is definitely someone to watch out for.And lastly there is a twist at the end was okay..
I lean toward believing the latter because of how the filmmakers use Mandy Lane, who is, herself, a horror movie cliche-the American virgin, who is pursued but never caught by horny high school dudes or the killer.
Most of the movie feels like a basic cookie-cutter slasher formula and the initial plot reveals are obvious, but the last 15 minutes of the film will give you all the twists and turns to make the prior slow, predictable plot completely worth it.Also, the cinematography is gorgeous.
Don't be taken in by the revisionist comments made by other users, I can't see anything in this film that warrants that and I'm surprised at how many positive reviews it has received as it an extremely average film.Director Jonathan Levine is obviously a big fan of Michael Bay as this poor attempt at a slasher movie looks fantastic but lacks any real depth or substance due largely to the poor script and to a lesser degree the low budget.In its defense the acting is uniformly good, and as mentioned above the film looks superb due to some excellent cinematography although even this strays into annoying MTV blipvertness.The "twist" at the end despite being obvious is also poorly explained and ultimately remains confusing as opposed to ambiguous.What this film needed was some particularly gruesome gore and/or a witty script with some original elements to liven up an otherwise dull & uneventful 86 minutes..
"Mandy Lane" isn't bad--as someone else noted, it's got above average cinematography, editing and directing--but the story is unremarkable, even with its twist ending.The film has a self consciously cool feeling to it that keeps it from being truly immersive.
So I just resorted to watching it online.All the Boys Love Mandy Lane isn't your conventional horror films by any means.
But soon, Mandy's friends start being killed off one by one As stereotypical as the plot may sound, Mandy Lane is not your typical teen slasher film.
Amber Heard, who plays the film's title role, has a lot to live up to playing Mandy Lane, a girl who is supposedly loved by everyone, and she pulls it off beautifully.
Make some popcorn, call some friends, and watch the new horror classic, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane..
I was not very impressed when watching this particular film.However the way it was directed as a 'teen' movie was admirable because of the issues and conventions you would normally see.However i felt that was the narrative progressed, it became more and more vague, until the drama hits and i became extremely confused and lost the entire plot.Disregarding the narrative, i was impressed with the performance of Amber Heard, Michael Welch and Anson Mount, but sadly felt that some of the actors were rather lazy when it comes to dying.It seems the director spends more time finding genius, gory and elaborate ways to kill people rather than come up with a convincing story to go with it..
Shy but hot Mandy Lane (Amber Heard) is the main character, and the setting is a friend's ranch where she and other friends are enjoying weekend.There is little to say about this film, other than that it takes the raw formula of slashers and uses it without adding anything.I mean, successful slashers always have something added into it.
Even 'Friday the 13th' had a then uncommon twist.'All the Boys Love Mandy Lane' has nothing that differentiates it from the slasher formula of teen stereotypes being killed off one by one.
The killers identity and the final twist are very predictable, the acting is in the typical range of terrible to bland, and the visuals are in the ultra-gritty style from recent horrors, like 'Saw' or 'I Spit on your Grave', that seems to be taking over the genre.The soundtrack, surprisingly, is very good.
The main character Mandy Lane(Amber Heard)is the sexiest girl in her high school.She is hot,athletic and has never had a boyfriend.Mandy is seen as pure,untouched and is sought after by the boys in her high school and envied by the majority of the girls.After two deaths Mandy goes to a getaway with some newly made school friends.The party in an abandoned ranch ends in nightmare as somebody starts killing Mandy's friends.The few death scenes are effective and sadistic but the most surprising is that the film does spend some time focusing on the hang-ups of today's teenagers.It also has a grainy bleached-out look to some of the scenes and the final twist is quite surprising.The killer's garb-slouched in a hoodie and strapped with carrying bags for the tools of death-evokes the Columbine massacre too firmly for that to be accidental.8 out of 10..
An above average, if predictable horror slasher, All The Boys Love Mandy Lane has all the typical slasher movie tropes with a twist I saw coming miles away.
The title of the movie to me sounded more like a revenge flick like "I spit on your grave" i wasn't expecting to turn out the way it did, Amber Heard really knows how to use what she is giving to work with and she pulls it of very well as the rest of the cast but thats probably it, honestly you don't have to rub two brain cells to know who is the killer, its painfully predictable, the cliché characters are all there, but I've seen worst, i just was expecting something different, prove me wrong or agree,out of curiosity give it a watch..
'ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five)Indie horror film that was made in 2006 but is just now getting a US theatrical release, seven years later, because of studio financial troubles (although it was released in other countries in 2008).
As Mandy is constantly harassed and hit on by every guy at the party people begin dying (one by one) and it becomes clear that an obsessed stalker (also wanting revenge on his bully classmates) has followed Mandy to the party.I wouldn't go as far as to say the film looks as beautiful as a Terrence Malick movie but I will agree with the critics who also compare it to Tobe Hooper's early work (and think it's very reminiscent of his classic 1974 slasher film 'THE Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE').
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is one of the best slasher films that I've seen in a while.
If I had to choose five horror films that represent the decade of the 2000's, "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane" would be one of them.
The film does utilize the now clichéd "Scream" type ending, but with a minor twist that is still somewhat predictable.Where "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane" advances the genre is in style.
It's like the director is saying, "look, a teenage slasher film can be entertaining AND be beautifully shot." It is definitely the right direction for this type of film, particularly if horror fans want people to start taking these films seriously as pieces of art.It is sad that, as of even today, this film has not had a U.S. release either theatrically or DVD.
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is a horror/thriller reminiscent of some slasher films.
He winds up dead, of course.Three more guys are presented with the chance at breaking in Mandy when the virginal beauty agrees to spend a weekend with friends at a secluded ranch; but when a killer turns up and begins to bump off the teens, sex takes a backseat to survival...After the impressively nasty pool-party opening, director Jonathan Levine shifts down a gear to build a foreboding atmosphere at a leisurely pace and allow his audience to get to know the characters.
Also serving to annoy is the incessant pop/rock soundtrack and a lame 'twist' at the end that does little to detract from the fact that All The Boys Love Mandy Lane is really nothing more than another pedestrian horror/thriller with a photogenic cast..
A group of high-schoolers invite Mandy Lane (Amber Heard), a good girl who became quite hot over the summer, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch.
All the boys love mandy lane is a slasher type horror movie centering around a group of teens that go away to a cottage and mysteriously get murdered.
Amber Heard is Mandy Lane, a virgin that all the boys are after, and a group of students invite her to go along on a weekend party to a secluded ranch.
After the sublime intro, showcasing a drunk macho kid miscalculate his jump off a rooftop in order to impress the titular beauty, "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane" turns out to be just another textbook and uninspired horror movie about a bunch of idiotic kids getting stoned and horny on a secluded ranch before getting killed off by a not-so-unidentified maniac.
A trio of boys that wish to deflower beautiful young high school girl, Mandy Lane (Amber Heard, "Pineapple Express") invite her up, along with a few other girls, to one of their father's remote ranch for the weekend, unbeknownst to them a killer is also going to crash the party in this stylish, but ultimately perplexing teen slasher movie.The film doesn't deviate too much from the tried and true slasher path (with all the pitfalls that that entails), however the characters are a tad better realized then most films if the ilk and it's well acted enough by the leads.
Even down to the so-called shocking twist at the end, the movie is like an old 80's horror updated for the noughties, and on this score it succeeds.Unfortunately, it also inherits a lot of the problems of the films of that era too, namely the paper-thin characters and the predictability of the whole enterprise.
'All the Boys Love Mandy Lane' is probably one of the strangest titles for a horror film I can remember.
However, if you generally like your slasher films then this one should entertain.Nothing special, but if you're a fan of the genre then it should fill an hour and a half of your time (although, personally, I thought Mandy Lane's mate was prettier than the – much sort-after – lead!)..
ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE became "the" horror film that just couldn't be seen.
ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE is one horror film that lives up to the good hype that surrounded it..
All the boys love Mandy Lane is a story of a beautiful girl (Amber Heard)who was a subject of male sexual desire.
And I am talking about a beautiful girl who is the only interesting person in this movie and no one else.I can understand that Mandy Lane (Amber Heard) is the main character who is pretty but when you make a movie you have to think that the audience will be interested not only for this but for more things.
I can't help but feel that ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE has something of this vibe going on, in that it's a slasher film done in a way you wouldn't recognise, like a teen drama.
Before you can even say "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane", the film falls sharply into the pitfalls of horror clichés, and never recovers.
To start off with, Mandy Lane is the only "good looking" female in the whole movie.