Most Likely to Die

Plot synopsis:
The story begins with a woman named Ashley driving her car up the hills to the house of her boyfriend Ray, a former professional hockey player who was recently cut from his team. Ashley arrives at the house but Ray is nowhere to be found, and she discovers several threatening messages throughout the house. She flees down a path through the desert but is caught in a trap and dragged into a shed.
Later, Gaby arrives to the house and is greeted by Ray's housekeeper Tarkin, who freaks her out with his strange behavior. Gaby finds the faces of her and her friends put up on a wall, but is disturbed to see that Ashley's face has been crossed out in red paint. The others - Freddie, Jade, DJ, Lamont, and Simone - arrive to help Gaby plan their 10-year high school reunion. Gaby is angry to learn her ex-boyfriend Brad, now a famous actor, is coming to the reunion, after he had abandoned Gaby when she became pregnant in high school. The group play poker and discuss a boy named John Dougherty, whom they all played a cruel prank on in school by crossing his picture out of the yearbook and writing "Most likely to die" underneath it. John was later caught with a gun in his locker and expelled before being sent to juvenile hall. Brad arrives with his girlfriend Bella, and tensions rise between him and Gaby. Tarkin spies on Bella changing into her swimsuit, and he is suddenly strangled to death by a figure wearing a graduation cap, gown, and a paper mache mask.
The group eventually notices that Ray and Ashley are missing and split up to search for them. Gaby discovers Ashley's dead body in the shack with her throat slit and wrapped in Christmas lights. Everyone comes down to the shack to investigate except for Simone, who stays alone in the house. Lamont decides to take his car to go and find help, but while driving down the mountain his car dies and he is forced to continue on foot. Simone, alone in the house, is attacked and murdered by the graduate. The others return to the house and find their cars have all been damaged, leaving them stranded. They find Simone's body floating in the hot tub and realize the graduate is killing all of them according to the things they were voted most likely to do in their high school yearbooks. Bella becomes convinced the entire thing is a hoax by Brad, and she and DJ leave the house to check to see if Ashley and Simone are actually dead.
The graduate attacks Brad and stabs him, but he is saved by Gaby. Bella runs back into the house in a panic, but is decapitated by the graduate before she can reveal what happened to DJ. Jade rescues Gaby by shooting at the graduate, but when Gaby takes the gun and tries to follow him, the graduate kidnaps and ties Jade up before tricking Gaby into shooting her, leaving as Jade dies in Gaby's arms.
Lamont eventually becomes lost walking through the desert and stumbles upon an unconscious DJ, who claims Ray attacked him. Lamont helps DJ up, but DJ suddenly kills him by shoving a wooden spike down his throat. DJ returns to the house and reveals himself as the killer, revealing he has been keeping Ray tied up. DJ exposits that Ray had forced DJ to plant the gun in John Dougherty's locker to keep Ray from getting in too much trouble for the yearbook prank. DJ rekindled his friendship with John several years later, but when DJ revealed what he had done in an attempt to make amends, John supposedly committed suicide. DJ now wants to kill all of his other friends as vengeance for destroying John's entire life, and plans to frame Ray for the murders. He offers to let Gaby and Freddie live if they help him murder the rest of their class at the reunion, and if Gaby kills Brad. Gaby pretends to agree and non-fatally stabs Brad, before taking the gun from DJ and shooting him to death.
Gaby, Brad, Freddie, and Ray escape the house and leave. As the film ends, an unknown figure wearing a graduation robe enters the house and picks the mask up off of DJ's dead body and puts it on their own face - it is heavily implied to be the spirit of (or the actual) John Dougherty.

Tags: violence, revenge, plot twist, prank

Review:
Most Likely to Die really is a bad movie.
Most Likely to Die is a direct descendant of these legendary films, much more so than most modern slashers that also recycle the usual tropes.
There's a ton of dialogue and the bad thing is that the acting is awful so it makes the discussions between characters extremely hard to watch.
Most Likely to Die. Well into the 21st century, we still have four or five slasher films per year.
I don't want to spend too much time talking about this piece of junk, so I will limit myself to mention some of the many things which are wrong with this film: horrible performances; awful narrative; stupid characters making bad decisions to keep the story moving; and Anthony DiBlasi's bad direction, which doesn't bring any rhythm, style or vision to the tedious scenes.
In summary, Most Likely to Die is a deplorable movie without any ingenuity or enthusiasm to transcend the clichés, or at least, bring them a more attractive appearance.
The same old classic slasher film cliches regurgitated once again into this little, boring slasher flick.Filled with unintelligent and straight up stupid dialogue, as expected, this movie fails to create any suspense, so whenever one of the kids gets killed you simply couldn't care less, since the writers have completely failed setting the atmosphere of this movie, you can see where it is going right from the start.
In my opinion, we have had more than enough of the same recycled slasher films over the years and it simply is the time to stop and move on from this genre, at least for a couple of years, because this type of horror has been witnessed so many times throughout the years it has gotten completely mondane and boring.
People are not looking for shock value in movies anymore, hence the low ratings here.Also, the plot twist is absolutely ridiculous and could very well be one of the dumbest i have ever seen, simply put this film has a horrible ending.
Another thing to point out, the lighting/sound effects in this film were surprisingly bad, the location was great, but clearly somebody was not doing their job right, when it came to lighting/sound effects.Overall ''Most Likely To Die'' is your casual, boring slasher horror film, which brings absolutely nothing new to the horror genre and will be forgotten almost instantly after viewing.
Yes, The ending was awesome because it was a big plot twist but it actually started out really boring and it took me alittle while to actually be interested in the movie.
It was still pretty good though it's just almost half of the movie started out really boring..
The film also breaks some stereotypes in the slasher sub-genre such as the black man not dying first or the final girl having more substance like an expert poker playing history.
Its not great, but I've seen some pretty lousy slasher films these past few years.
Slasher flick Most Likely To Die features a pretty cool killer: clad in graduation gown and cap, face hidden by a papier-mâché mask constructed from cuttings from an old yearbook, he kills his victims using the sharp edges of his mortar board (throwing it on occasion like Oddjob in Goldfinger).
This means that there are some pretty decent death scenes, including one character having her neck severed before being completely decapitated by the maniac (who uses his bare hands to complete the job), and another having a broken hockey stick jammed into his mouth before the obligatory throat slashing.Unfortunately, a memorable psycho and some reasonable gore is about all the film does have going for it.
The rest of the film is an exercise in sheer mediocrity, with extremely obnoxious characters, stilted dialogue and mundane action in which the soon-to-be-dead repeatedly split up to put themselves in peril.
If you don't like slasher movies why did you watch it?
I must say it's been a while since I've got to watch an actual who-done-it Slasher, so I'm quite glad I got around to trying Most Likely to Die. The key components, i.e. characters, relationships and social intrigues are all as cookie-cutter as can be, without even the slightest distinct effort to present something new.
Additionally, some of the all too familiar cheats are of course present and are quite significant for the plot to make the slightest sense (of course there's no cellular reception, has anyone ever seen an on-set slasher location in which basic communication devices actually worked?
On the other hand, this was perhaps the first time I've seen a Slasher film with an actually logical explanation for the car refusing to start in a desolate location, so at least there's that.Speaking of the plot, it's nice, okay, sufficient and other such underwhelming adjectives.
As a Slasher, Most Likely to Die has some very well planned killing scenes, and awesome and never before seen murder weapon, and a distinguished lack of forced pornography (some erotica though) and people dying solely on account of being stupid.
Those who just expect a Slasher, offering some half-finished story and plenty of features bad enough to be sufficiently amusing, would surely be pleasantly surprised but at least a few scenes.
A lot of the reviews here are slating this movie for being a generic slasher, but I'm not so sure it actually is.
It is a simplistic set up: some friends go to a place and get slaughtered one by one, but simple doesn't always mean generic, or bad for that matter.What this movie does is work it's simple structure and add some nice additions in that subvert the slasher genre, like the killer bolting when they see a gun, only to come back later and use it themselves.
This took them away from being anything supernatural and made them clearly human, adding to the general 'whodunit' nature of the plot.Overall this movie is full of homage to slasher of old, but it doesn't fall into any major pitfalls that other efforts do.
If you are a fan of slashers then this film should satisfy you, if it works for what it is then should it really be trying to be anything else at the sacrifice of actually working?.
Good slashers design, bad movie.
The slasher design is good, but the movie is so boring, bad actings, unnecessary dialogues, the kills are good..
On comparison Scary Movie was more realistic, better acted, and had a much tighter plot.
I am so sad to see this genre of movie go down the pan, The Scream and I know what you did last Summer films were so good, this dire attempt at a film seemed to try and recreate that feeling, but failed miserably.
The acting was dire, Perez Hilton's scream at finding Ashleigh was like something out of a first year School drama production.
RELEASED IN 2015 and directed by Anthony DiBlasi, "Mostly likely to Die" chronicles events at a retreat home on the scenic coast of Southern Cal when several former high school classmates gather the day before their 10-year reunion.
The filmmaking is professional, unlike no-budget slashers such as "Butchered" (2010) and "The Ridge" (2005), but due to kinks in the script "Mostly likely to Die" falls a notch below those two story-wise.
She will hardly watch her favorite tv show, and she like this movie.
To me, it is evidence that internet distribution can be a very good thing - as I would have hated to have disturbed other cinema patrons by constantly screaming "F*** you" at the screen, which happened quite frequently during this trash.What could have been an intriguing, or at least entertaining, slasher flick is squandered on a nonsensical script, infuriatingly bad dialogue and some of the worst acting I've ever seen in a horror film.
His acting failed to convince me he was a human being, and I haven't wished for a character's demise so much since his namesake Paris Hilton's turn in House of Wax.The term half-baked would be generous for this one.
Most Likely to Die(2015) Starring: Heather Morris,Ryan Doom, Perez Hilton, Chad Addison, Tatum Miranda, Jake Busey, Marci Miller, and Skyler Vallo Directed By: Anthony DiBlasi Review ONE KILLER REUNION.
The direction from Anthony Diblasi is awful, he couldn't make a fun slasher movie to save his life.
Most likely to be the worst movie I have ever seen.
I love slasher films and thought, a movie about a psycho in a graduation outfit?
'Most Likely to Die' drew me into seeing it, with a cool poster/cover, an intriguing and quite creative premise and as someone with a general appreciation for horror.
There is very little to recommend, but still a couple of qualities in 'Most Likely to Die'.Lets start with the positives.
Best thing about 'Most Likely to Die' actually is the ending when the film finally gets intriguing, even then it feels too little too late.Going on further to the negatives, the story does feel over-stretched and some of it feels vague, under-explained in the last third where the film especially became duller, more predictable, more senseless and less scary and never gaining momentum.
For a slasher, there are far too little kills and slasher elements and none are creative or scary.Dialogue can be stilted and rambling while the pace and film drags on forever, never recovering until finally getting intriguing to the ending.
A lot of 'Most Likely to Die' has underdeveloped plot elements and often nonsensical and confusing character motivations, while too many of the things to make you jump or shocked are far from creative or scary and are pretty tame.There is not enough threat here and what there is of it tends to be used poorly, while the psychological elements are unimaginative and are more odd than scary, completely failing to show any sense of horror.
2/10 Bethany Cox. Most Likely to Disappoint You. When I was about to start the movie, I had a clear idea of what I was going to find, but it turned out much worse.
However, there is no awful acting alone, overacting is seen in most part of the movie, which made me believe I was in a poor remake of "Scary Movie".I could not connect or empathize with the characters either.
They were boring, had superficial development, and some of them had nothing to contribute to the movie's plot beyond their unimportant death.This movie can be summarized in a death-after-death plot, with non-coherent actions and decisions taken by the characters that reminds you how unrealistic this is, and an excess of dialogue in senseless conversations that leads to pure boredom.The only reason I am giving this movie two stars instead of one, is because it was actually well filmed and the quality of the shots was actually really good.
So when I saw that Diblasi had recently released another horror movie I jumped at the chance to see it even though there were quite a few red flags, Jake Busey and Perez Hilton on the cast list plus a very generic teen slasher type plot, lets just say I should have listened to the warning signs.The film starts out with a very cliché slasher type opening scene, an attractive blonde arriving at an seemingly empty house where she was suppose to meet up with her old classmates for a reunion, she strips down into almost nothing and roams around the house until she is eventually killed.
From there the rest of the classmates begin to arrive and this is where the film really started to fall apart, we are introduced to all the characters and it becomes very clear that none of them are going to be interesting at all.
Usually in a slasher film unlikable characters are not necessarily a big deal since you are there to simply watch them get brutally killed, however this film desperately tries to get you attached to these boring characters, this would be OK if their stories/relationships were interesting but it all just feels like a bad soap opera episode.So after about forty five minutes or so of our characters discussing the past and having dull conversations the killings finally start, really only one of the kills is well done and brutal, however none of the cast really seems to care all that much that their friends are being murdered.
There is one scene in particular where they find the dead body of one of their classmates, then literally like five minutes later two of the characters start having a nice reminiscent conversation about their high school days as they sit outside a shack that houses the body of their dead friend.
After a bunch of sloppy dialogue and running around the killer's identity is finally revealed, but at this point you won't really care, his/her motive doesn't really make any sense and their attempt at acting like a psychotic frantic killer is pretty pathetic.Overall this was just a mess of a slasher film, which is disappointing because I know Anthony Diblasi is capable of making a quality horror film, shame to see his talent wasted on such a generic flick..
"Most Likely To Die" had a nice premise going for it.
For some reason there's a lot of poker and poker terms in it through out the movie, which okay one of the characters is a pro poker player but she acts guilty through the whole movie about it, it really doesn't make sense.
The main issue about this movie is they are at the killers house the whole time which is suppose to be there friend, the guy never shows up.
It's just bad, even for someone that likes pretty bad B-rated horror movies this is just horrible.
More like Z-rated (yes I know that's not clever but this movie really deserves it).
I was pleasantly surprised to find that Most Likely To Die is actually a super fun slasher flick.
It is also fun to have this movie focus on a group of high school friends 10 years after high school instead of during high school or college as so many slasher films do.
A group of former classmates gather for a pre-party at one of their homes the night before their 10-year high school reunion.One by one, they are brutally slain in a manner befitting each's senior yearbook photo comment.It's not a bad film by any means, with a minuscule budget, an unknown cast, and probably the directors house, it gets the job done well, but one cannot help but think with a bigger budget, Blumhouse input, and made 15 years earlier, this could have been something of a franchise.We get the obligatory guessing game from the upstart, a checklist of who has been killed, and in what way, and of course, a masked villain and final third explanation.The cast are okay, the characters highly unlikeable except for the lead, and a few impressive kills.But the film lacks a convincing explanation come the end, it really is a kind of last minute, cheap inclusion, which again, in the right hands, could have been something a little more on a grander scale.For a horror fan, there is nothing new here, it references many slashers from the eighties, has your token special guest star Jake Busey, and if you've seen enough of these films, you know what to expect of them.But it looks good, it's short, and it doesn't take long for the film to get going.A great rainy day slasher.
Each picture has a "most likely to...." by it which "cleverly" or not so cleverly relates to their death as explained to us after the second kill.The film spends a lot of time creating drama over past relationships and gives us plenty of suspects...I was guessing the kid who died in High School as this had a "Prom Night" theme + a cabin in the woods film.
The film spent too much time on Gaby (Heather Morris) who got boring after awhile as I wished they hadn't killed off Skyler Vallo in the first scene as she had so much tease to her.Guide: F-word.
I guess the makers of this movie should get a little credit for trying to revive a genre that is pretty dormant in this day and age, that being the slasher genre.
Like any slasher film you have seen (only worse) but with a different story.You have a plot where all the characters end up secluded and where the killer can easily pick them off.
(I should have turned off at this point)Jake Busey is in this film and his character is seemingly unneeded in anyway.
Bad script, bad acting, bad story, bad concepts, bad characters.They also somehow have the neck to try and set up a sequel right at the end (Please God don't let there be a sequel)..
Most Likely to Die does something that many horror movies - especially low budget horror movies - fail to do, and that is to give time to develop the characters.
While I appreciate down time between major action, allowing scenes to breathe and providing time for character development, for a horror movie there was too much down time.
There is minimal tension, kill rituals were brought up and dropped, the masked killer is completely non-threatening, and the kills (save for one) aren't very creative.All in all, this wasn't the worst horror movie I've ever seen.
However, if you are looking for a well-paced horror movie with creative kills, this is not the movie for you..
While watching this movie, I only jumped once, and only got a little scared one time also.
When one of the friends die, the characters are supposed to be sad, and for a while they do act sad.
When she ¨screams¨, it is more of just a yell like, ¨Hey friend, this chill killer is trying to kill me.