i'm kael's ghost

Does High school ever change? When I look at high school movies from my youth and compare them with the high school movies of today the only things that have changed are the clothes, the music, and possibly the insults teenagers hurl at one another. The "popular" kids are terrible, hateful, entitled, conniving, monsters bent on making everyone else's lives miserable. The smart, sensitive, "outsider" kids are desperate to be accepted and appreciated but somehow thrive on their mistreatment at the hands of the other students. We all love to hate the popular girls; they are so plastic and fake - with perfect skin and perfect bodies and perfect clothes and so on and so forth. Imagine me rolling my eyes here because this type of drama is one of the many reasons I hated high school and went as infrequently as possible. Despite anyone's attempts to say otherwise, All Cheerleaders Die is a waste of an hour and a half. Some have called it witty - because t...

The Haunting of Molly Hartley The gist: teenage girl has a crazy, religious mother and has to deal with mean kids at her high school. Bad things happen. If this sounds familiar, it's probably because you've been watching Carrie . Or you had your own crazy mother and hated high school. Or both. It could be both. The story is fairly predictable with moments that feel like The Craft and moments that feel like Carrie and then some that seem kind of like The Devil's Advocate . Despite being an underwhelming and derivative little film, it wasn't entirely terrible. What did give me a pleasant little surprise was the ending: no one was "saved" and everyone who did survive lived happily ever after as a servant of Satan. Hooray! Kind of like The Omen complete with a set up for a sequel that would likely run parallel to Damien: Omen II , were anyone to care enough to make said sequel. Unlikely . Overall, the movie is just a high school drama with a horro...