I'm all for slow burn horror films, as long as it builds a storyline worth investing in, yet this movie doesn't even come close to fulfilling that. It spends an excruciatingly long time dragging out the partying teen portion longer than I've ever seen a movie do, and it grows tiresome fast. The first hour is spent listening to every rationalization of events that occur being blamed on a stoner spiking drinks. To make matters worse there is absolutely no character development or growth whatsoever. You sit through this entire film without a single backstory or interaction with these characters. They are all cardboard cutouts from beginning to end. When the cast started killing themselves off I could care less about their deaths, and even then there is no gore or detail to pay off this time we wasted. The only redeeming quality about this film is the acting is pretty solid all around, especially considering the script had to work with. Very frustrating film because it seemed to have potential but the writers couldn't figure out how to develop it into a story so they settled on "teens party until the kill themselves off camera". Save the hour and a half and watch something else, anything else.
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