All The Boys Love Mandy Lane is a 2006 slasher movie, directed by Jonathan Levine. It tells the story of Mandy Lane, a girl who 'got hot over the summer' being invited out to a ranch with the jock kids in order for them to try and have sex with her.
Sex? Teenagers? Sounds like a slasher movie to me. But, a surprising lack of sex and breasts are in this movie, especially considering the premise. I'm not saying there are no breasts, but it's not the breastfest that is, say, Rob Zombie's Halloween. This film is remarkably more mature than your average slasher, some lulls in dialogue but that was mainly due to the script being mostly improvised by unknown teenage actors, Van Sant style.
No punches are pulled in this movie, except for the ones that kill people. This film was made with a budget of $750,000, and is a fantasticly shot film for less than $1 million. A few cutaway shots when gore is expected are forgivable due to the independent nature of the movie. I'd rather imagine the gore than have some tomato ketchup smeared on a latex face. Most of the film is shot with a 70's orange glow, the youthful exuberance splattered against the corn fields hosts a good pallette of colour for to kill against.
This is a good film, peculiar in parts, but it's plot really refreshes the genre. If more people would make the effort to craft a film with less killing and more thought, rather than just straight up slashers (Prom Night, Halloween, etc) then I would be in my element.
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