(2000)
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A teenage girl leaves an insane asylum to get a job catering to rich vacationers at a beach. Before long, she's been accepted into their society, but after a string of murders, she wants nothing more than to get out.
Subgenres: teenage, murder
Director: Mary Lambert
Cast: Lori Hering, Susan Ward
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If it's nothing else (and, really, it isn't), The In Crowd is a good example of how some directors need good material in order to be effective. I mean, Mary Lambert, the captain of this sinking ship, also helmed Pet Sematary, in which she created a sense of inevitable doom worthy of John Carpenter at his darkest. Here, she's just directing by-the-numbers a script that wants to be like Wild Things but doesn't even come close to that film's humor or self-knowledge. See, The In Crowd tries to be purposefully, satirically trashy, but lacks purpose and satire. Not to mention logic and a coherent, sensible plot. Or a plot at all. So what's left? T & A, of course! In all fairness, star Lori Heuring isn't all that bad of an actor, but the rest of the cast seems to think they're doing auditions for some of the more poorly written parts on Beverly Hills, 90210. (Come to think of it, I wonder if villain Susan Ward got this job by somebody saying, "Get me a Tiffani-Amber Thiessen look-alike who resembles Denise Richards when she smiles. No, all she has to do is act bitchy for an hour and a half. We're sure to get horny teenagers into the seats now!") Although I have seen a bunch of movies that are worse than The In Crowd, there are few I dislike more. (Jan 20, 2001)
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