Blurb Movie Reviews - 'The Frightening'

Typical David Decoteau fare. As usual, there is a cast of buff teen boys, walking around shirtless in boxer briefs, taking long showers, and pervy shots of the cast. It's as if Abercrombie and Bruce Weber, decided to go into making B horror movies.

Part of the reason I like Decoteau's movies is because they are so bad. There is always lightning and thunder anytime there is a night shot. He usually has tons of fake smoke masking most of the scenes. He censored himself on this one, with that. And his plots, usually have simple stories, but still manage to have plot holes.

So 'The Frightening' is about a new kid, Corey, starting at a new school. He is torn between joining the wrestler jock types [Decoteau had to get some homo-erotic wrestling in there somehow], and the alterna-kids, who all like to dress in corresponding colors. One of the alterna-kids, Mason, is actually first shown wearing a chenille sweater with the sleeves cut off. Two words: gay, and retarded.

So over the course of the movie, each of the non-desirable kids get killed by the wrestlers. The whole time, the new kid is trying to figure out what is going on.

Spoilers!!

At the end, you find out that Corey, is actually already dead, and that this 'school' he went to, is in fact, the afterlife's waiting room. The wrestlers are 'bouncers', of sorts, and kill off people to send them to their final resting place.

Knowing that the 'new kid' had supposedly killed someone in real life, they wanted him to become a 'bouncer' too. He declines, and the school disappears.

It's completely laughable, but enjoyable if you like so-bad-they're-good horror movies, that objectify teen dudes, instead of teen girls.