Simply Perfect

Memorable, crazy movie

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

When a college girl who is alone on campus over the Thanksgiving break is targeted by a group of outcasts, she must conquer her deepest fears to outwit them and fight back. Kristy benefits from an interesting and well made perfomance from Haley Bennett and has some good suspense and plot to keep it's viewers entertained even tho Lucas Till's talent does get flashed down the toilet kinda and Ashley Greene is no victim or a pretty face as the poster makes her look like. Overall tho it was a well made and interesting horror movie. (7.5/10)

I watched this movie on Netflix. The story is about a college girl who gets stuck on campus with only a few people around. A group of serial killers target her for the next kill to post on the Internet. I liked this movie for several reasons. The heroine of the story (Haley Bennett) is smart and acts that way. She uses a number of items to fight back; some of which are pretty ingenious. The murderous gang is led by a woman (Ashley Greene), who does a great job letting you know she is a psychopath. Lots of good, edge of the moment scenes that kept you interested. The acting was pretty good. The downside is that most of the other characters who die act stupid to get there. I didn't care for the lights going on and off in the hallway scenes (It didn't seem to add anything to the movie). And lastly, no campus is that deserted even on a holiday weekend. I do want to mention that they did an amazing job on Ashley Greene's make-up. You can hardly tell it is her.

Kristy starts out like any other slasher flick; a timid girl finds herself alone in a secluded area, only to be hunted by a masked stranger or group of strangers who fill the urge to slaughter with pseudo religious or radically moral motifs that ultimately cast no bearing on the events that unfold. Halloween drove home the idea of Michael seeking out Laurie due to their bloodline only after a barrage of sequels, and Jason became an embodiment of his mother's revenge only after Steve Miner took up the reigns. Watching Kristy feels like tuning into a sequel well into its second act, where blood splatters and teens run for reasons unknown to us. There's something amiss in the terror that reverberates from the lungs of our scream queen, and with Kristy it's in the form of a strewn together intro that collects fuzzy and distorted found footage kills from our group of outcasts that feel pieced together from a previous movie. It causes us to feel disconnected from the onslaught of dread that oozes from the chase, and perhaps it works as our timid girl Justine (Haley Benett) never once fills the dead of night with her panic. It's a lacking horror trope that feels refreshing and separates Kristy from the rest, similar to what Adam Wingard brought to the screen with 2011's exceptional You're Next. Watching Kristy take on a group of masked thugs, transitioning from scared to stoic is invigorating for the genre, but boring for us. It causes a lack of palpability on director Oliver Blackburn's part, turning Kristy into a well-crafted chase flick with a strong lead rather than a finely tuned slasher. What ultimately drives Kristy further away from our warm embrace is its lack of commitment to its killer's motives, staggering here and there with talks of a purge or cleanse that feels like a cheap moralistic add-on, when the real horror comes from the unknown. Haley commits to Justine, while our hooded ring leader Violet (Ashley Greene) tepidly coasts through her Hot Topic phase with dry air and plummeting energy. There's more life in her masked goons than a single moody gaze, who come off as cosplays of Doctor Doom at Comic-Con than anything else, yet make it work due to the DIY nature of it all. While it may be beautifully shot, it's considerably unfocused, a fitfully paced slasher that loses itself in its attempts at injecting the genre with something fresh, causing the rest of Kristy to quickly decompose.

"The Strangers" meet the university (student), except it was better than The Strangers. The Strangers was a bit of a downer juxtaposing chance and violence. They pick you and you die. True, while unsystematic random violence is to be feared it can hardly stand alone as dominant story-telling. Yea need a reason. 'WE' need a reason. This movie....Kristy.... provides that reason by means of meager, yet plausible, cultism. The first half of the movie is good scary stuff, the back half.............an action film. Run for your life kind of mania. But I nevertheless enjoyed it for some strange reason. Her expression perhaps.....................I'm not sure exactly, but i believe that was it. She was very convincing.