Girls Against Boys

Plot synopsis:
College student Shae (Danielle Panabaker) blows off going to a party with her friend Karen (Reyna de Courcy) to go to The Hamptons for the weekend with her boyfriend Terry (Andrew Howard), an older man who is separated from his wife. That evening, Terry comes round to her apartment. He apologises and says that they can't see each other any more - he and his wife have decided to reconcile, for the sake of their young daughter. The next day, Shae goes shopping at a farmer's market and sees Terry with his wife and daughter. She follows them to their house and he notices her. They do not speak and after he closes the door, she leaves. That night, she goes to a bar where she works. During her shift, she goes to the cloak room and starts to cry. She is interrupted by her colleague Lu (Nicole LaLiberte), who comforts her and invites her out for a drink over Shae's breakup with Terry.
Shae and Lu go out to another bar where they meet Simon (Michael Stahl-David), Eric (Carmine DiBenedetto) and Duncan (Will Brill). They drink and dance with them and then go back to Eric and Duncan's apartment. Shae kisses Simon and then goes to the bathroom, where she passed out, drunk. Feeling unwell again, Shae decides to go home. Simon offers to take her home, saying that he was about to leave anyway. They get a taxi together and are dropped off outside her apartment building. He asks if he can come up, but she tells him she has a boyfriend. He persists, asking first for her number and then for a kiss goodnight. She tells him to leave and he becomes violent, grabbing her neck and forcibly kissing her. She hits him and runs upstairs. Before she can unlock her door, he catches her, pushes her onto the floor and rapes her.
Later, in her apartment, Shae tries to call her mom and Karen, but can only reach their voicemails. With no one to talk to, she goes to Terry's house. He is furious that she has turned up at his house unannounced and takes her home. They go into her apartment and Shae, having not told him that she was raped yet, hugs him. He misunderstands and starts kissing her. She tells him to stop but he tries to force himself on her. She shouts at him to get off her and starts crying. He leaves, telling her that he doesn't know what she wants from him.
The next day, Lu calls her and they go to a police station to report the crime. There, the hostile and skeptical Officer Daniels (Matthew Rauch) gives Shae paperwork to fill in and sends her to the waiting area. Shae files her report with an unsympathetic detective (Kelvin Hale) and Lu notices Daniels looking at her. She flirts with him and she asks him if he wants to go somewhere to have sex. The go a local hotel where Lu cuffs him to the bed, takes his gun and shoots him.
Lu goes to Shae's apartment and tells her that they need to deal with the situation themselves, by going back to Eric and Duncan's apartment and finding out where Simon lives for Shae to get her revenge. She tells Shae that she has a gun, which she got from a police officer. They go back there and probe Duncan for Simon's address. He doesn't know it and when he jokes about how Eric told them he and Shae had sex, Lu shoots him dead. Shae laughs and then throws up, but is okay with it. When Eric comes back, he tells them Simon's address and Lu shoots him too. They go to Simon's workshop and find him working alone. Shae knocks him unconscious and they tie him to his table. When he wakes up, they torture and kill him by dismembering his limbs.
Next, they ambush Terry, kidnapping him at gunpoint and driving him off in his own car. They drive to a secluded part of the woods and take him out of the car. Shae points the gun at him and he begs for her forgiveness. She can't bring herself to kill him and he starts to run away but Lu takes the gun and shoots him. They stay in a motel that night and when Shae starts crying, Lu gets into bed with her and holds her. The next morning, they talk about what they did and while Shae says that killing all those men who wronged her did not make her feel any better, Lu enjoyed it and says that she enjoys killing and hurting people because she can. They go home and return to their lives.
After a class, Shae is asked out by her classmate Tyler (Liam Aiken) and they go to the fair. She goes back to her apartment that evening and finds Lu waiting for her, annoyed that she is back so late because she had wanted to surprise her with a ready dinner.
Shae goes to a Halloween party with Tyler, who is DJing. Lu secretly arrives and when Shae is in the bathroom and everyone else is watching fireworks on the roof, she kills Tyler with a sword. Shae finds his body and returns home, finding Lu's sword on a table. Lu steps out of the shower stark nude and tells Shae that she did it "for us" and to "protect" her. Shae takes the sword and kills Lu.
Some time later, Shae returns to work at the bar. During a break, she is interrupted by a crying co-worker (Makenzie Leigh). Shae asks "is it a guy?" and the woman replies that it is. As the two sit together, a vision of Lu is seen behind Shae.

Tags: revenge, murder

Review:
The fact that it earned a little over $6K at the box office (probably not enough to cover the catering costs during filming) proves there is no audience for this cr*p and as Dana's looks fade, the few roles she gets will quickly fade as well as she is singularly without any acting talent, exhibiting here the same vacant stare throughout the entire movie (the other lead actress is actually pretty good).
This one seems to have even less plot than usual and is merely a string of set-pieces of the main two characters going around and butchering unsuspecting blokes, some of them deserving, some of them not.I find films like this one almost entirely devoid of merit.
Although the violence is over the top, there is a subtlety to the plot, particularly the ending (no spoilers here, but the twist leaves the audience thinking about everything they have just watched in a whole new light).Anyhoo, the cinematography was excellent for a low budget such as this and I looked up IMDb to find out it was Kathryn Westergaard who seems to be plodding away doing documentaries and shorts but on seeing this I hope she gets noticed.
You know, when you take this movies budget into consideration then you kinda get the idea just how good this flick is but with some of these reviews it's never going to get watched.
I rated this movie 1 because it's not possible to rate it zero or less.Basically a half a page of screen writing seems to satisfy the director in justifying a badly played idiotic gore fest which is frankly borderline pervert because it hides behind would-be feminism and pseudo female abuse to try to justify showing atrocious violence.
Let's just flash a policeman her private parts behind transparent underwear then kill him in a painful humiliating way top punish him for a short concupiscent glance.As a tasteless comedy striving to be funny it could perhaps have satisfied a few blood hungry hormonally supercharged drunken teenagers.As it is I bet it will disgust even violent film lovers who will see right through it, e.g. just an excuse to film inhuman tortures, dismemberment, exploding organs Did I mention that the acting, filming, (lighting?), costume or music did nothing to save the movie?
for me this is one of the worst movies made in a very long time.what can i say i have to write 10 lines and i am simply out of thoughts how to keep describing this or find something positive to mention.the only way to make this watchable is if you children would be the actors and you had to watch it and tell them what a good job they did if they were 4 or 5 years old.
It has its flaws (emotional detachment being amongst them), but you can watch it, if you like those kind of movies (doesn't matter if you're a girl or not).
Although the violence is over the top, there is a subtlety to the plot, particularly the ending (no spoilers here, but the twist leaves the audience thinking about everything they have just watched in a whole new light).
So, I must admit that I went into "Girls Against Boys" with a level of interest, as it would be nice to see a horror film from a feminists perspective.
Unfortunately, her idea of revenge involves murder, and when Shae actually does show interest in an actually nice guy, Lu becomes jealous.I appreciate what director Austin Chick is aiming for here.
It clearly wants to be a respectable horror movie, but it doesn't understand how horror works.Which leads me to my biggest complaint-for all it's good intentions, "Girls Against Boys" seems to lack the courage of it's convictions.
It clearly wants to say something about these issues in society (and in horror in general), but instead of being a thoughtful commentary or a "Men, Women and Chainsaws" style examination, it all feels "Been here, done that." The fact that Lu ends up becoming obsessed with Shae also feels unnecessary.
In trying to play it both ways, the film muddles whatever message it intends to have.If you want to have an intelligent, feminist take on the horror genre-the go watch "Audition", "The Descent" or "Ginger Snaps" instead.
Instead, this is a cheesy, man-hating melodrama about a nice normal girl that snaps after hitting a really bad patch of luck all because of, you guessed, those evil, penis wielding creatures known as MEN.Scream queen Danielle Panabaker (Friday the 13th and The Crazies remakes) stars as a meek, naive college girl immersed in a boneheaded affair with a middle-aged married man (Andrew Howard of Hatfields and McCoys and the I Spit on Your Grave remake).
Him dumping her right before he was supposed to take her on a dream vacation to Aspen is bad enough, but then, while out getting trashed to forget the breakup, she is raped by a douche bag pretty boy (Michael Stahl-David of Cloverfield).The cops, all men, obviously, are insensitive jerks that act like a rape is a minor misdemeanor but wait, she has luckily just made a new BFF, a psychotically anti-male lesbian played by Nicole LaLiberte.
It's not enough to save the movie, though.Theoretically, this could be described as a rape/revenge film in the tradition of Ms. 45, They Call Her One Eye, or even I Spit on Your Grave only made for female audiences and that would be okay if it weren't so thin and dull.
it is an awful movie not much else to say.The story doesn't make sense as well as everything else in the film there is not one thing good about it do yourself a favor and don't watch it i am sure you can find something better to do for 90 minutes hell don't do anything and it will be better.
There's a lot of hidden context, and at times, shows how differently a woman has to view the world for their safety (especially if you take a scene and switch the genders, since this would end in very different actions from the characters, eg, the section after the Captain Crunch scene).Brilliant movie about the gender war experienced by women in a male dominated society without being preachy.
I started watching this movie a couple of times before I actually watched the entire film.
I won't point them out because that would be too much of a spoiler but, to anyone who reads reviews before they see a movie, don't be sidetracked by those who call it a "revenge flick", or a "slasher flick", whether they liked it or disdained it as an example of those genres, and look for more..
The acting were good.but the storyline is stupid.Don't dress too short and don't act like a slut if you wanted to be respected by boys or by people who surrounds you.Then you will feel bad if you get cheeky by boys or by those people who surrounds you.When i watch this movie, It kinda shows that all boys were bad and it also kinda shows not to have mercy when boys have done something bad or what we call a sin..
She then befriends a co-worker Lulu (Nicole LaLiberte) who turns out to be a psycho and helps her get revenge.This is Death Wish for girls.
The introduction made it out to be such a good film (my sort of thing) but there are so many things wrong with this, I don't know where to start.Firstly, the club scene was ridiculous, really generic and boring.
It was way too predictable.Believe it or not, I really, really want to make a good point about this film; but throughout the time watching it, I can't thinking of anything positive.There was no where near enough gore as there should have been for my liking, the main lass just seemed to be a doped-up Emma Watson.
I nearly watched it all just to see if the two women meet a deservedly grizzly end, but thought better of it, when I realized the writer and director most likely intended to let them get away with it, which would have just ruined what was left of my night.
Well, I'm not sure what I was looking for when I decided to watch this movie but it definitely wasn't anything I wanted to see.
As so many people already stated, it's just a pure 'men suck' film which in turns translates to 'let's kill all men we come across because obviously men are pigs'.Summary - college girl dates older men (with family).
If you really wanna know what happens, read below.The first third of the movie is following a love lorn college girl that has just been dumped by her older married boyfriend.
Then we get a look back at the places where they killed hipsters, the rapist, and the ex-boyfriend followed by broken heart girl getting ready to go work.
Hence no police and the flashbacks to the scenes of the murders that, near the end, all looked like nothing happened.
(fingers crossed) For those that like fairytale endings, be careful before watching this movie, it's something evil.
I would have cast someone a little younger than Andrew Howard (who according to Panabaker's character says he is 35...he looks 45 and is well into his 40's.) Just a small thing that annoyed me only a little.Even fans of a good art-house film could go on board with this because there are a few scenes that border on the bizarre and are just so cleverly shot.
I usually notice that when a director also writes the film and doesn't have a lot of experience it makes for a very poor campy movie but director and writer Austin Chick made me take notice because this was well done and likely on a very low budget.
Only in the beginning did I feel like the film dragged more than it needed to but that only served to help set up the entire concept and the characters.
well this is a great movie with great acting everything was perfect in this movie main character (negative rule) acting was so good ,well this movie is about a girl Shae (Danielle Panabaker ) after a series of bad experience with men,shae teams up with her Co ;worker Lu (NICOLE LaLiberte,who has a simple deadly way,of dealing with the opposite sex well u can said its really a great,outstanding movie of 2013,i did not know why so much negative review about this movie maybe all r men which r against this movie so much because women is in this movie with there full power and I request to the audience don't notice r care about movie low rating (which is not a good rating) and don't notice negative review because movie is great by himself not need to be a good rating r any prove of his perfectness because when people watched this movie they must loved it its movie only just for open hearted people which not be jealous that why female did bad with guys) so must watched this movie a really great story with twist with great acting and great music I simply say I loved it.
There are some confronting scenes (which made the film for me), and you can't help but want to see Shae get her revenge.
'Girls Against Boys' was probably added to the 2012 London Film Festival's programme to provide the guilty pleasure element: after first getting dumped by her married boyfriend and then being raped, both within the space of a few hours, a young student teams up with a waitress - who just doesn't like men - to go on a revenge killing spree (methods of murder include sawing off a man's feet, and shooting another man in the anus - ow!) Although the scene where the woman reports the rape at the police station and gets passed from pillar to post is pretty powerful in its portrayal of how the system dehumanizes victims, this film has no pretensions to deep messages - it's just a couple of hot babes in cut-off denims with big guns.
If you've seen the film and still think it's just about two girls getting revenge, then go watch it again and look very carefully at the first scene.There's a reason there's a hold on LU for 60 seconds.
A believable story line with realistic characters and situations, a strong and truthful story that is directed with care.Danielle Panabaker does a spectacular job of creating a very believable victim of rape, Shae, who, with her new friend and work colleague Lulu, subtly portrayed by Nicole LaLiberte, take fatal action on her attackers.Yes, this has been done numerous times, the last big budget version being The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster.
However, he doesn't take being rejected at the door to her apartment building and resolves to get what he think he deserves.What I like about this film is the lack of graphic violence, most of the time the director Austin Chick, who also wrote the story, chooses to cut away.
It's Shae's state of shock which makes this a more plausible tale of revenge.The resulting conclusion is pretty inevitable.This is a slow, well thought out psychological thriller, which gives a breath of fresh air to a much-used storyline.This isn't a pleasant film to watch.
So our two deadly looking girl decides to make justice on their own and murder all the boys who harmed Shae.The movie is about a retaliation of a girl who meets someone at a club and the guy took advantage of her, but if we think more eventually is the girl's fault, she should know better how long it takes until you truly meet someone for real and not after one night besides that she is the one who took the first step.
What a devilishly delightful film this turned out to be...This movie could be placed under the category of "rape & revenge" stories...Which it is to a point...But this film is so much more than that...I would say that this film is a combination of "I Spit On Your Grave" with NONE of the graphic and disturbing rape scenes..."Raising Cain" with duel personalities instead of multiples...With a touch of "Fight Club" hints throughout the duration of the film....At least that's how I saw it...Danielle Panabaker is a highly intellectual young Hollywood talented actress with impeccable credentials in show business...It was quite an audacious move for her to take on a film like this...Her performance in Mr. Brooks as his daughter would have more than likely led to her character becoming more dark and intense...Unfortunately the less than stellar box office results for Mr. Brooks probably means there will be no sequel...But that's alright, because as far as I am concerned...This film is the unofficial prequel to Mister Brooks...This could be the story of what happened to Jane Brooks while she was away at college before going home to her serial killer Father...Nicole LaLiberte was also wonderful in this movie...Nicole LaLiberte is to Danielle Panabaker what Brad Pitt was to Edward Norton in Fight Club...Only Nicole was darker...Much, much darker...This film will stand the test of time and develop a cult following...That is if it hasn't already...This is a powerful...Mind bending...And Sexy thrill ride from start to finish...And that's all there is too it....
What a devilishly delightful film this turned out to be...This movie could be placed under the category of "rape & revenge" stories...Which it is to a point...But this film is so much more than that...I would say that this film is a combination of "I Spit On Your Grave" with NONE of the graphic and disturbing rape scenes..."Raising Cain" with duel personalities instead of multiples...With a touch of "Fight Club" hints throughout the duration of the film....At least that's how I saw it...Danielle Panabaker is a highly intellectual young Hollywood talented actress with impeccable credentials in show business...It was quite an audacious move for her to take on a film like this...Her performance in Mr. Brooks as his daughter would have more than likely led to her character becoming more dark and intense...Unfortunately the less than stellar box office results for Mr. Brooks probably means there will be no sequel...But that's alright, because as far as I am concerned...This film is the unofficial prequel to Mister Brooks...This could be the story of what happened to Jane Brooks while she was away at college before going home to her serial killer Father...Nicole LaLiberte was also wonderful in this movie...Nicole LaLiberte is to Danielle Panabaker what Brad Pitt was to Edward Norton in Fight Club...Only Nicole was darker...Much, much darker...This film will stand the test of time and develop a cult following...That is if it hasn't already...This is a powerful...Mind bending...And Sexy thrill ride from start to finish...And that's all there is too it....
Great Movie-Not a feminist screed...girls don't try this at home!.
If there was a movie about men killing women for revenge, it would never be made.
Sadly, (but not surprisingly) it would appear that most people reviewing this movie do not actually understand it, or didn't watch the whole thing.As others have stated, there's a lot more to it than the standard exploitation revenge flick.
The "duo's" actions throughout the movie are Shae, in a traumatized and depressed state, imagining what she'd like to do to the men who have hurt her.
The whole point of the movie is that Shae is wrestling with these emotions, imagining both the revenge fantasies that she enjoys, but also the dark and out of control road that could lead her down where she begins to distrust all men and harm the innocent people around her.
However, the film clearly shows the viewer all of the clean "crime scenes" at the end, proving that none of the revenge scenes actually took place.