Vivian, a shy and self-conscious college freshman, transforms into a new person after she moves into a building with a popular coed, and of course, by drinking lots and lots of delicious tea....
When we first meet Vivian, she's frumpy, disturbed, and of course without make up. But then the one from the code who looks like Myleene Klass, gets her to come to a party and meet the other housemates.
Soon the frump goes, then the make up is slapped on, but something is amiss, she is told of the person who lived in her room before, Violet, and how she went missing.
Soon people start turning up dead, Vivian starts to hear voices, and physically she is starting to look different.....
It's very, very loosely based on an Urban Legend, the one where the student in your room before you disappeared mysteriously. Everyone's been told that, I was told that, and I told someone else. It's probably the most universal of Urban Myths.
I've always found the directors work very interesting, she tried to do something different with Freddy's Dead, and Tank Girl maybe a lot of things, but it certainly isn't boring.
This feels like a Gothic teen mix of She's All That, The Craft, and a hint of Rosemary's baby.
It's all highly predictable stuff, you know from the offset that something isn't right, because, without sounding too shallow, they wouldn't invite her into her little coven, without ulterior motives.
The acting is fine, just what you'd expect from a TV movie, and it goes a little bonkers toward the end, but in an age where we get at least two to three horror movies every week released, it could have been a lot worse.
Worth seeing if you like throwaway, predictable horror.
When we first meet Vivian, she's frumpy, disturbed, and of course without make up. But then the one from the code who looks like Myleene Klass, gets her to come to a party and meet the other housemates.
Soon the frump goes, then the make up is slapped on, but something is amiss, she is told of the person who lived in her room before, Violet, and how she went missing.
Soon people start turning up dead, Vivian starts to hear voices, and physically she is starting to look different.....
It's very, very loosely based on an Urban Legend, the one where the student in your room before you disappeared mysteriously. Everyone's been told that, I was told that, and I told someone else. It's probably the most universal of Urban Myths.
I've always found the directors work very interesting, she tried to do something different with Freddy's Dead, and Tank Girl maybe a lot of things, but it certainly isn't boring.
This feels like a Gothic teen mix of She's All That, The Craft, and a hint of Rosemary's baby.
It's all highly predictable stuff, you know from the offset that something isn't right, because, without sounding too shallow, they wouldn't invite her into her little coven, without ulterior motives.
The acting is fine, just what you'd expect from a TV movie, and it goes a little bonkers toward the end, but in an age where we get at least two to three horror movies every week released, it could have been a lot worse.
Worth seeing if you like throwaway, predictable horror.