27th Worst Movie: The In Crowd

"The In Crowd"
Starring Susan Ward, Lori Heuring and Matthew Settle
Directed by Mary Lambert

The Lame Crowd
By Michele Dillon

It seems like this movie could have had a lot of potential. If they just tweaked the script a little, recast all the actors, possibly found a different director and made it a high budget film…it probably could have been a flop in the box office instead of a flop on the straight to DVD. Actually, I am really not sure if this movie came to theatres since it was a while ago that it was made but I can’t imagine that this would have made it to the big screen. But who knows, they bring lots of horrible movies to the big screen and nominate the horrible actors for Oscars from them all the time (Happy Go Lucky anyone?).

Let’s just go right into it. A girl who has had some psychiatric problems is allowed to work at a high class country club in order to get her life back in order. She starts to become friends with the most popular girl from the country club until things turn for the nasty. She discovers secrets about the girl, secrets that could mean there was a murder that happened in the town that no one even knows about. Oooo, suspenseful right? Not really, they spent so much time drawing out scenes that were unnecessary and trying to build suspense in places that it made no sense that by the time anything was revealed that was supposed to be a shock, it wasn’t. I watch enough movies to pay attention to foreshadowing. In this movie, I don’t even think you could call it that because you saw everything coming from 50 miles away (now, that’s good eyesight). I just don’t know how else to explain this movie, other than “it was lame”.