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Girl #2
USA 2016
produced by David Jeffery, Meta Valentic, Ian B. Williams, Kari Wahlgren (executive), Mark Relyea (executive) for Dalvey Road Entertainment, Glamfish
directed by David Jeffery
starring Katy Yoder, Mia Faith, Michael Bailey Smith
written by Kari Wahlgren, music by Sean Callery, Julia Newmann, Jeff Lingle
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review by Mike Haberfelner
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A ruthless and deranged serial killer (Michael Bailey Smith) with a
sledgehammer has entered a sorority dorm and is killing the girls left and
right. Jenn (Katy Yoder) desperately tries to escape the premises, but
finds one exit after the next blocked ... and almost gets her head smashed
in if it wasn't for Stacey (Mia Faith), who drags her to safety - well,
relative safety anyways, as they lock themselves in one of the place's
bedrooms and bar the door with a dresser. Then Stacey nobly makes Jenn
promise to make good her escape when the killer tries to kill her first.
Why Stacey first? Because killers always kill the pretty girls first -
which is something Jenn can't accept like that ... Girl #2
is a little game on genre conventions which works quite so well because it
follows them with precision - up to the point of (intentionally) stilted
dialogues and questionable character motivations -, and yet once you're
sure you've seen it all before (because you have), the film turns
everything on its head and lets irony take over that actually manages to
come across as less "post-modern" or genre-reverent than it
actually is on closer inspection. But a great directorial effort that
understands both horror and comedy and a trio of performers who really get
the joke yet not necessarily play it for laughs help to make this a rather
awesome piece of genre parody.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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