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'''''All the Boys Love Mandy Lane''''' is a [[Slasher Movie]]-cum-[[Thriller]] that was made in 2006, released in Britain in 2008, and is due to be released in the United States in... [[Development Hell|God knows when]].
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
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 (
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* [[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]]...
** Which would make for a rather interesting aversion of [[Bury Your Gays]].
* [[Big Man
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Bird. However, he avoids being an [[Ethnic Scrappy]] — the only reference to his ethnicity is when a girl asks him whether it's true [[Bigger Is Better in Bed|what they say about black men]], and his speech isn't peppered with street slang.
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Played with, then subverted. When the power goes out, Red sends Bird out to turn on the generator. A [[Genre Savvy]] viewer would expect this to be his death sentence, but all that comes of it is a conversation between him and Garth. Ultimately, Marlin and Jake both wind up biting it before him. However, when he ''does'' die, it's one of the [[Eye Scream|most gruesome deaths]] in the film.
* [[Cowboy]]: Garth.
* [[Death
* [[Developing Doomed Characters]]
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The scene wherein {{spoiler|Mandy}} murders Chloe is heavily sexualized.
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* [[Short Run in Peru]]: The film was released in Britain in 2008... and has not been released ''at all'' in America.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The radio in Chloe's car plays Latin pop music as {{spoiler|Emmet chases down Chloe with it}}.
* [[Stalker
* [[Suicide Pact]]: {{spoiler|Emmet and Mandy had one, in which they would kill a number of their classmates and then themselves in order to get themselves immortalized in pop culture. However, Mandy backs out at the last minute.}}
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Red and Chloe, you just ''had'' to {{spoiler|stop and kiss before you reached the car}}, didn't you?
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