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Simon (Liam Hughes) and his best friend Joe (Joe Daly), two teenagers
in a sleepy seaside town, are pretty much the "nerds" at their
school and in their social circles, while they have pretty much the same
interests as all other teenagers, especially belonging to the
"in-crowd" and picking up pretty girls. To achieve that, the two
of them have come up with the idea to make and (self-)publish a comicbook,
one that stars all their acquaintances. And indeed that works to a degree,
they become the talk of their town, especially since their comic is built
close to reality and sometimes seems predictive of things to come. Enter
Hannah (Daisy Ridley), a mysterious but beautiful girl who hooks up with
Simon and Joe - which rings the alarm bells of Joe's father Frank (Mark
Forester Evans), as he and Simon's father at their boys age, have had the
similar idea about doing a comicbook about the locals, until Hannah turned
up and a massacre ensued. Of course, Simon and Joe don't believe Frank,
who's pretty much reputed to be the town drunk - and only too late do they
realise they and their friends and loved ones are indeed heading right for
disaster, and Hannah's nobody but death herself, coming to reap her
harvest ... Now truth to be told, this movie might have a bit
too many subplots to follow, is a bit too overburdened with principal
supporting roles, and quite simply a bit convoluted - but the longer the
film goes the less that matters as the many subplots really create the
right atmosphere to make the finale a real kick in the guts and actually
help in confusing the audience in what's real and what might be not - and
the more one is confused, the more one is at the edge of one's seat (in
this case at least) ... which is ultimately what makes this a pretty cool
genre flick.
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