The Curse of Downers Grove
Story follows a senior, Chrissie, who is skeptical, and another, Tracy, who believes that she may be the next victim. Chrissie's last week of high-school in Downers Grove, IL. is a paranoid trip through a small Midwestern town gripped by a 'curse' that claims the life of one high school senior every year. With only five days to graduation, Chrissie Swanson is beginning to wonder if she will be the next victim of the Curse of Downers Grove.
2 February 1987, Tucson, Arizona, USA
3 October 1961, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
15 December 1963, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
19 September 1984, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
10 August 1990, Fort Hood, Texas, USA
18 January 1987, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
August 24, 2015
The story moves right along, and the characters are fun.
August 22, 2015
Leave it to Bret Easton Ellis to conjure up the worst movie of the summer.
August 20, 2015
A messy hash of teen soap opera, stalker thriller and whatnot whose titular possibly-supernatural aspect is basically irrelevant.
August 20, 2015
An amateur-hour hodgepodge of painfully extraneous voiceover narration and hacky, underdeveloped plot points that add up in the end to one big poof of dust.
August 27, 2015
The Curse Of Downers Grove is just another lackluster high-school-based thriller like the twenty billion that have come before it.
August 20, 2015
It's especially unforgivable when the alleged Indian curse is only a red herring to distract viewers from the more pressing gender-based violence at hand.
August 25, 2015
The Curse of Downer's Grove felt more like an extended episode of Pretty Little Liars rather than a horror film.
August 20, 2015
The characters' actions remain incomprehensible, even as they're explicitly laid out.
August 22, 2015
And as for that curse? It's on anyone who tries to endure this mess.
August 21, 2015
Too dumb to be scary, too listlessly written and directed to be suspenseful and too unpleasant to work as camp ...
August 20, 2015
The Curse of Downers Grove has more on its mind than the teenage body-count movie it resembles in all except the steadily escalating body count.
