Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

tyranid_slayer I am a big horror fan and i watch the horror channel if there something on that seems good and then i watch it. Then at about 9 there was this film on called the source. The basic story is some rejects find a rock that gives them special powers (GASP) so they get pointless revenge on school bullies like making them pick their nose and hypnotizing the school into slaves under one persons mind control powers. There are plenty other films out there to watch this is not one of them with bad special effects and wooden acting give this a miss the only reason you should watch this is if there is nothing else on TV to watch. After watching this i totally lost faith in horror films (if this can be counted as a horror movie) but if anyone can stand the whole film let alone the first half hour i would applaud that person unfortunately thats not going to happen.

SpookyAtTheDriveIn As soon as this movie started, I realised I wasn't in for a high budget blockbuster type. For one it was 2am and I was watching cable. That pretty much tells you everything you need to know. The plot revolves around Reese,an introverted high schooler who looks like he shops primarily at Goths R' Us. He is tormented by memories of his Mother committing suicide for some unknown reason. Despite being quite a likable guy and despite being blessed with cute good looks,Reese is a social outcast. Possibly because he wears dark clothing,we may never know. Just to add to the "teen-angst",Reese is a talented artist who has more candles in his room than any church should. During one lonely lunchtime being tormented by jocks,Reese is befriended by fellow outcast Phobe,a flower-child eco-warrior who is unexplainably best friends with a fiery girl named Ashley and her genius brother Zack. They all go for a drive after school to hang out in a forest (because all teenager do that,y'know),where they stumble across a glowing rock which Zack quickly identifies will give them special powers. And you can guess what happens next....think Carrie meets The Craft. They take "revenge" on the people who have tormented them, which in Ashleys case is all the boys who have refused to have sex with her. She's looser than Courtney Love,this girl,and cruelly takes Reeses' virginity in the middle of some trees half an hour in. Soon Ashley is overcome with the power and everything turns very,very Carrie. There are lot's of things to like about this movie.One being cute little Reese,he can't act much but he's nice to look at. Two being that the movie bounces along happily like a techno music video and doesn't really drag at all. Before looking the movie up on IMDb,I was under the believe that this was a mid-nineties project considering the special effects are very dated. Ultimately the movie is very stilted in that it falls into ALL the teenage movie cliché's. Introverted,black-clad,depressed protagonist? Check. Rebel bad girl? Check. Maths genius who can explain away everything? Check.Plus,the friendship between the four leads is just sooo damn unbelievable.Movie directors have got to get it into their heads that these varied groups of oddballs don't exist in high schools. Goths like Goths. Hippies like hippies. Nothing inbetween. In the real world, Ashley would have beaten Phobe up years ago. Still, this is a pretty entertaining movie and the really ironic thing is that The Source is a million times better than anything teenage Hollywood has barfed out in years.

oclegg This film was truly bad and must be of the straight to video variety. It was riddled with stilted acting and poor casting, the main character was far too old to be a high school or even college student and was only marginally younger that the actor who played his father. One of the teachers is also younger than one of the female leads. Makes no sense.Special effects appear to be straight out of Adobe Premere and the story fails to take off .... no soul at all. Shot in music video style, emphatic editing and cool clothes in a clumsy attempt to nail down a demographic audience.This was probably someone's attempt to break into the industry with some rich uncle's money.The kind of film you'll find late at night to fill air time.

jheflin-1 I stumbled upon this gem of a film at 2 AM on good old UHF during a lengthy HD format and, I'll admit, it kept me quite entertained for the two hours I sat and watched it. Yes, the shaking camera effect and the constant "Disco Ball" reflections are quite cheesy, but there are many other positives to be examined. The characters, while movie and TV stereotypes, are still very representative of actual high school personalities. The brains, bullies, sluts, goths, and hippies were shown just as I remember them. Also, the X-men/The Craft/insert marvel comic here... powers were worked into the plot well. Great movie, Oscar candidate, worthy mention?... nah!!! But if you can take a low budget movie with a grain of salt and you went to a public high school I would recommend this fun little flic. If Blockbuster is out of Hollywood's newest multi-gazillion dollar extravaganza pay the $1 and try it.