10 Awesome Slasher Films You've Probably Never Seen
2. All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane initially works as an exposé about how unpleasant teenage boys can be. Male readers - do you genuinely call dibs on girls potentially attending a party that you are also going to? Because if so, you are gross. Please re-evaluate the person you have become immediately. In fairness to some of these guys, Amber Heard is a classically stunning goddess of a lady (to be honest, shes probably even out of fiancé Johnny Depps league), and the girls in the film arent exactly their moral betters anyway. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane takes the classic slasher formula, and manages to breathe new life into it. A group of teens go for a heavy drinking weekend at one of their dads ranches, and its all fairly predictable, to a point. Obviously its made clear pretty fast that theres no cell phone service where theyre staying (the increasing prevalence of mobile phones must have really hit horror film writers hard), and at one point the lights go out, obviously, so someone has to check the generator. Despite these fairly standard checkpoints that everyone knows from Slashers 101, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane feels fresher than many of its predecessors. The film is beautifully shot, with focus on the male gaze often being the theme. It uses fades to hint at possible twists, and, to be honest, even if it were awful and boring, its very pleasing to watch. Its a real shock that this wasnt bigger than it was, because more slashers like this could cause a new comeback.
