The Girl in the Photographs
The Girl in the Photographs
| 14 September 2015 (USA)
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Small-town store clerk Colleen is eager to escape her tedious existence and annoying boyfriend. Then gruesome photos of murdered women start appearing.

Reviews
Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Michael Ledo Colleen (Claudia Lee) is a check out girl in the small town of Spearfish, S.D. (actual place filmed on location). She finds photos of what appear to be dead girls with the face mutilated beyond recognition. The cops can't find a crime or anything illegal. She is on her own. We know she has a boyfriend Ben (Toby Hemingway) she has been blowing off. Peter Hemmings (Kal Penn) is an obnoxious photographer from the same town. He reads Colleen's blogs about the photos and opts to take his crew of models to Spearfish to shoot them in death poses. Rose (Miranda Rae Mayo) is one of the models and the current girlfriend of Peter and they carry on a love-hate relationship filled with barbs.We see the killers, first with masks and then without. Their characters were never developed. The theme is stated early on "There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit". - William S. BurroughsPeter builds upon that theme and claims, "We covet what we see everyday" i.e. the cashier in a way is a local celebrity, seen and admired by many.The film also used some decent "B" stars, one of which I really liked and they wax her in the first scene. Kal Penn carried much of the film with his lines and eccentric nonsense. And while this was a "slasher" film in that people are horrifically killed, it didn't feel like a slasher as the photography displaced much of it. The film is more developed than most horrors, but (plot spoiler?) there is no clever twist.Guide: F-word, sex, nudity (Autumn Kendrick) throats cut, blood squirts.
tondaliawilliams While I was intrigued with this movie at the beginning, I could not for the life of me get the meaning. If he was in love with her why kill her???? As for "Colleen", I find it hard to believe that she could be in her bathroom and not know there was somebody in her bedroom - which was directly next to her bathroom. As for "Peter and Chris", did they not see "Tom's" truck - AGAIN - as it was leaving the parking lot. After all, they left a business card on it when they first got in town. The ending is really stupid - is Colleen dead or not. I just thought this movie could have been better. Kal Penn cursing was more hilarious than anything.
D Rahul Raj Jsd Yesterday (August 5 2016), I finally got to see the movie, " The Girl In The Photographs", which was the final movie of Late Legend, Mr. Wes Craven who was the Executive Producer. It was supposed to be released on August 4th, but they changed the schedule for it. I've been running around like a mad dog to cinemas everywhere, as the websites of the cinemas showed that it was playing, but it ended up being canceled. I even made calls to the theaters more than 20 times, I think, and they never even bothered to answer, as I didn't have a vehicle, and was traveling on trains and walking up and down. And I thought to myself, I am not gonna let anything stop me from showing honor to Mr. Craven, Then, finally, I found a place that had only two shows, and I went for the earliest, which was 7pm. The movie was directed by Nick Simon, and features Claudia Lee (Kickass 2 2013), Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar film series, The Namesake 2006), Kenny Wormald, Toby Hemingway, Luke Baines, Miranda Rae Mayo, Corey Schmitt, Mitch Pileggi (Wes Craven's Shocker 1989, The X- Files TV series), and one of my top favorite scream queens, Katharine Isabelle ( Ginger Snaps film series, The Soska Sisters' American Mary 2012). I loved it, and couldn't even blink for a second. It has suspenseful jump shock scenes that remind me of Wes Craven's signature in films. It's extremely and brutally violent - not for the faint of heart, with a mixture of sick psycho-maniacal slasher sequences. Plus, there's some really good comedy. It all adds up to being one hard-pumping, extremely powerful, violent slasher, fun thriller flick, which would be guaranteed to put a smile on the face of the late Master of Horror, Wes Craven. This movie received negative reviews, but I've never cared about bad reviews from critics. They just don't understand the powerful art of this film. While the end credits were rolling, people started to get out, but not me, I always sit through the credits, whether in a cinema or at home, to see who I know that was involved in the film. After the end credits, I stood up in the empty theater for that peaceful moment, and gave a huge, massive salute towards the big screen, for this was the last film to involve Wes Craven. He was the very first horror director I knew and followed when I was a kid, he will truly be missed. This movie is a tribute, a dedication to Mr. Craven, and I want to thank director Nick Simon and the entire cast and crew for this feature, for showing honor to the Master up in Heaven. God bless you all!!!
FlashCallahan And to think that this was the last film that Wes Craven had any involvement in before his untimely death just adds to the all around naffness of the finished product.A killer sends a young woman photographs of his victims, which draws the attention of an arrogant celebrity photographer.The shutterbug and his entourage then head to the woman's small town to get closer to the mayhem......The film awkwardly mixes humour with some really ropey horror and dialogue, and after an initially impressive opening which isn't unlike that opening scene in the wonderful 'Scream', it just goes downhill rapidly, despite some potential in a couple of characters.I'm really hoping that Cravens involvement was that of just the masked predators whom appear in windows and behind people, because these really are unnerving scenes, and if the film was focused more on them, rather than Kla Penn and his abhorrent entourage, it could have been something.Penn gets top billing in this, and on the one sheet, his name is above the title, just like Schwarzeneggars was back in the day. I mean really? apart from playing Kumar, and having a non speaking role in that awful Bryan Singer Superman film, what has he done? So apart from a couple of unnerving scenes, it's a failure on every level, it provides us with no tension, no reason for what the protagonists/antagonists are doing, and we are treated to some silly Scooby Doo ending.Don't bother.