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Teenaged Needy (Amanda Seyfried) is a bit of a nerd, but she's best friends with Jennifer (Megan Fox), who tends to take her to all the cool events in town - well, as cool as possible in an insignificant town like Devil's Kettle. And when a charting indie band called Low Shoulder actually plays at the local diner, of course Jennifer brings Needy. But the concert doesn't go quite as planned, as the venue burns down, killing quite a few audience members. Jennifer and Needy survive though, and since Jennifer has caught the eye of the band's front man Nikolai (Adam Brody), she's invited into their tour bus - despite Needy's warnings. Later that night, Jennifer shows up all bruised and battered, and she vomits blood before leaving again. The next day at school is a day of mourning, as pretty much everybody has lost somebody they knew in a fire - only Jennifer is beaming. Later that day, she seduces the school's jock in the woods right behind the school ... and then brutally kills him and eats from his flesh. A few days later, she does the same to an emo kid (Kyle Gallner). Nobody suspects her of course, but eventually she opens up to Needy and tells her that back on the day of the fire the band wanted to sacrifice her to Satan under the assumption that she was a virgin - which of course couldn't have been less true, and now she's possessed by a demon and has to feed on human flesh. Of course that's mighty disturbing to Needy, even if Jennifer promises her she'd never feed on her best friend. But Needy starts to do research on Jennifer's condition, and when the school dance comes up, he does her best to come prepared - but what she doesn't know is that Jennifer isn't even going to the dance but tries to get it on with Needy's boyfriend Chip (Johnny Simmons) - and once Needy figures that might happen she runs all over town to hunt them down and best Jennifer in a showdown. But is Needy even capable enough to do that?

Now this is a film with a great finale, it's visually impressive, well-choreographed, and really keeps one at the edge of one's seat - but unfortunately, the movie leading to it is much less so, it really seems that horror elements have just been thrown together rather randomly, and with no real concern about story structure, build-up of tension, or believability even (given the suspension of belief the genre demands already), and there are plotholes aplenty. And all of this is a shame, as the direction's solid, as is the cast, but without a proper story the film just fails to work.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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