July 1st in Chicago, IL. My wife and I were looking for something to watch on a Saturday night and after about an hour of surfing On Demand, Netflix and iTunes, we were settled on this title as an iTunes rental.
The film starts off at an upstate New York all girls Catholic boarding school preparing for a winter break. Sally Draper is a freshman who's forced to stay over the break until her parents are able to come pick her up. Also staying over is "cool chick" Rose (Lucy Boynton), who's been asked by the headmaster to "keep an eye" on the freshman. Suffice to say Kat is a little weird and Rose being a "cool chick" isn't thrilled with the task. After telling Kat a scary story about nuns and demons, Rose sneaks out for a date. Despite no one being at the school except for the girls and two female caretakers, Rose and her boyfriend are not exactly clandestine when they get back to the school. When Rose returns, she finds Kat in the boiler room. Weird (the boiler room plays an integral part in the plot so I won't spoil it).
Meanwhile Joan (Emma Roberts) is at a bus station having flashbacks and gets ride from Bill and Linda (James Remar and Lauren Holly) who are on there way upstate. Bill picked up Joan because he reminds her of his daughter. Back at the school things are getting weirder when Kat pukes at breakfast. Things goes bad for the women staying at the school soon after. After leaving a motel, Joan, Bill and Linda get back on the road to get ahead of the storm. Things go bad for them.
There's a bit of twist here that I don't want to reveal because this was a good film. Solid acting, good story and the tension builds up slowly. Suffice to say my wife figured out the plot twist (student became the master) and it was a nice little twist. I wasn't able to get any info on the film's budget but trust me, it wasn't very big. Writer/Director Oz Perkins, making his directorial debut, does some nice things with a small budget. Perkins does a nice job with melding slasher and supernatural aspects of the film. There's just enough of each to keep it interesting. The film received a 74% Rotten Tomates rating and deservedly so. The film slow down a little but not too much over the less than 90 minute run time. This is a nice little film that's worth watching.
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