All the Boys Love Mandy Lane: Difference between revisions

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Mandy Lane is the most beautiful girl in her school, and [[All Men Are Perverts|all of her male classmates]] want to sleep with her, even though all indications are that she wants nothing to do with them. One of her classmates, an [[Jerk Jock|arrogant football player]] named Dylan, goes so far as to try to jump off the roof of a house into a swimming pool in order to win her love. Dylan winds up banging his head on the side of the pool and killing himself. Fast forward nine months, where Red, the [[Big Man on Campus]], is throwing a party at his parents' ranch, and all the cool kids are invited... especially Mandy. Unfortunately for the partygoers, somebody has come to the ranch uninvited, and he has his sights set on winning the heart of the beautiful Mandy Lane... no matter who gets in his way.

 

A simple enough plot, done to near-perfection. This film was widely praised by horror fans for its [[Reconstruction]] of the [[Slasher Movie|slasher genre]], bringing it back down to Earth and incorporating both the grit of 1980s slashers and all the lessons of ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'''s [[Post Modernism]] without trying to imitate it like so many other teen horror movies. It was hoped that this would be the film that would revitalize an American horror scene that was growing stale on [[The Remake|remakes]] and [[Gorn|gratuitous violence]]... and those hopes slowly started to slip away as the film's U.S. distribution [[Development Hell|fell into a tangled mess]].

 

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Chloe.

* [[Ambiguously Gay|Ambiguously Lesbian]]: Mandy. She's [[Lesbian Jock|athletic]], she doesn't seem attracted to any of the guys in school {{spoiler|(remember — she rejects Emmet at the end)}}, despite [[Dogged Nice Guy|all their best efforts]], and her scenes with Chloe are possibly the only moments where she appears to be sexually attracted to another character. And of course, there's the [[Reality Subtext]]...