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• not your average horror posted on 07 January 2009

  This is a special kind of movie, although it is classified under horror a lot of horrorgeeks will spit this flick out. The reason is that this is a kind of arty horror, the movie doesn't give you a lot of gore or red stuff, it gives you a story about childhood and the obscene minds. The title of the movie says it all. Mandy is almost an adult but is still a virgin and all the boys want to make love with her, they all try to seduce her. That's what we get in the first part of the movie. Of course she doesn't have real friends except the nerd of the school. He's in love with Mandy and Mandy knows. Even the girls hate Mandy, because of her beauty. We really get to know all the friends of Mandy, after a half an hour of this flick she accepted to go out for a weekend to a ranch. That's were everything goes wrong. You will get to know who the killer is so you will think you will know how this movie ends, no way, there's a sudden twist in it you can't expect. The movie is beautifully filmed, they used a lot of what we call in the bizz "flair" with the lens of the camera. And the editing was sublime too. The use of high speed camera's and freezes makes it all arty farty but it works. Even the score is picked out to connect with the scene's. If you are in the mood to watch a slow starter with a twist then Mandy Lane is yours. Be aware that this flick is already from 2006 but wasn't available for 2 years. If you search the Net to find you a copy you will see that it is still available but it is already an OOP. So catch yourself a copy before it is a hard finder like for example Cherry Falls.

• Very disappointed posted on 29 June 2009

  I watched the movie because the trailer had a lot of pretty interesting shots and an interesting flair... felt somehow sixties.And well, at the beginning i was really impressed of the shots and how well the music fits to the scenes (The movie's really got a great score). But at the moment the killer approaches, everything drops back to standard, or even below. Nearly every scene reminds you of bad teeny slasher movies back in the eighties. And every shot looks either ridiculous or overambitious. So in the mid part of the movie I got really bored and couldn't await the ending.In the end it separates again from those standard slasher movies adding some new elements, and i somehow woke up again, but approximately five minutes later it dropped back to standard (or even below...).A few minutes later a nice plot twist wakes you up again, but this time the scriptwriter's taken it too far, so it ends up ridiculous...Well... the end scene's great again (great camera, great score), but it's way to late to save the movie.After all, i gave it 4/10, because the mid part really bored me, and some good shoots and a great score couldn't compensate that.

• A boring and predictable slasher film. DON'T BOTHER. posted on 06 March 2009

  I read about this film on-line and after seeing the generally positive reviews it has received, and viewing the trailer, I decided to check it out for myself. What a disappointment! It starts out well enough. the opening scene was actually pretty tense, but from there it's all downhill. I can see that the filmmakers were trying to do something different with this movie, but by doing so, they took all the enjoyment out of watching it. Those choices combined with the "C.S.I" editing, use of music and montage, lack of suspense, scares, or humor really drag this film down. There's too much foreshadowing and to many "subtle" clues, so when the first twist arrives early on, you already know how the movie is going to end. I gave the movie three stars because I think the cast did a good job, other than that I can't recommend this movie.

• Not the best one... posted on 22 May 2009

  I am a German student so sorry for eventually mistakes (I'm working on it ;) )The stylistic very interesting converted and with effective sound effects accentuated platitudinous action of the drama deflect in no way from the horrible bad actors (insincere and unnatural moves and expressions of feelings) and makes so the relatively weird and senseless story less better. Just the typical slasher-genre with in this case very odd action. Many by-plays destroy partly the main story and let the viewers up to the end into the dark, create weirdness and let surmise the senses of actions and the point mere hazily. For sure its an hit for slasher-fans but not for me. But although the interesting style of cinematography and adeptly use of light is turned out well.So not the best one...

• Best "teen slasher" movie since Scream. posted on 05 August 2009

  I have always been a fan of horror movies, but in the past few years I have been very disappointed. All the horror movies today, emphasize prolonged human suffering and torture. Yes, people are supposed to get hurt and die in horrible ways, but enough is enough. I can't sit through 2 hours of just torture. When this movie was over I felt like I had actually watched a real horror movie. I loved the look, the music, and the entire feel of this movie. The acting was good, the directing was great, and the twist at the end made it all worthwhile. If you're looking for a horror flick that's actually worthwhile, this is it. Get your popcorn and enjoy.

• Dump the Broad, damned! posted on 28 April 2009

  I was only cautiously enthusiast when renting "All the boys love Mandy Lane", as I instantly remembered hearing & reading a wide variety of opinions – both positive and negative – in the short period of time between its brief cinematic release and the distribution towards videostore shelves. Supposedly this was the most ingenious and refreshing new horror film in years, with non-stereotypical teen characters and unpredictable plot twists for a change. Okay, the basic concept may perhaps sound reasonably innovative but inevitably the screenplay quickly reverts to the same old and irritating slasher clichés, and once passed that point even the nifty stylistic trademarks can't save the film from dreadful mediocrity. The opening sequences are indeed terrific and literally bath in a moodily melancholic ambiance, which actually makes it all the more painful to witness the film sink towards the "ordinary" level of rudimentary slasher flick. After the sublime intro, showcasing a drunk macho kid miscalculate his jump off a rooftop in order to impress the titular beauty, "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane" turns out to be just another textbook and uninspired horror movie about a bunch of idiotic kids getting stoned and horny on a secluded ranch before getting killed off by a not-so-unidentified maniac. The film's entire pretentious set-up collapses faster than a ramshackle house of cards: we never get a proper explanation why Mandy herself behaves so frigid and haughty towards all her admirers (because she grew up an orphan, perhaps? Oh, boo-hoo), the boys soon enough illustrate they'd settle for sex with any random bimbo and not exclusively with the "divine" Mandy and the final twist – albeit undeniably offbeat – is just plain senseless. The middle section of is rather boring and doesn't even offer any genuinely horrific excitement (shotgun killings? Please!) or authentic rancid sleaze. My generous rating 4 out of 10 entirely goes to the grainy and unsettling 70's filming style (with faded colors, bizarre but beautiful photographic images…) and the surprisingly marvelous soundtrack. Director Jonathan Levine opted for the classic Bobby Vinton song "Sealed with a Kiss" to play during the trailer and end-credits, whereas I initially was convinced the film would inevitably feature Barry Manilow's cheesy love-song "Mandy".

• Mandy laid ... posted on 22 April 2009

  ... that is how much the Boys love Mandy Lane. But of course this is not another teen ... I mean romantic movie. Nope this is a horror movie. A slasher to be precise. Now slashers do live with two premises: Either a great twist or original killings. In this case, you kinda have both.At that is what makes this movie worthwhile watching. Of course it is aimed more at the teen/twen audience, but what slasher isn't. The really illogical things that do happen, stay at a minimum, which is a good thing and the actors fit the bill(their roles), no more, no less than that. If you don't like slashers at all, you should of course stay away from this movie!

• I don't see what all the fuss was about posted on 03 May 2009

  After reading fave reviews and watching some great trailers, I was very eager to see this movie, just to see what the fuss was all about, It says "The OC Meets Friday The 13th", and it also says that it's fresh and truly terrifying.But when I saw it, I just thought what was all the fuss about, I mean don't get me wrong it's not a bad movie, it's just simply average and there's simply nothing different or fresh about it. Okay the cast were all sexy but mostly disposible and not very likable. apart from Amber Heard (Mandy Lane), I can see why all the boys love her, she is smokein' her character develops more and more as the film goes on and Anson Mount he's also easy on the eye and is the only male in the movie with a good heart. The rest of male cast are all simply unlikeable morons and the other female cast are sexy but they're horrible people, and I was glad when they started getting killed off one by one.All in all "All The Boys Love Mandy Lane" does have beautiful scenery to match the stunning cast, it's just that the movie is just wasn't my cup of tea and too boring, but I think Amber Heard will go on the bigger and better things than this, she's already recently starred in "Pineapple Express" which was a big hit, so Amber Heard is definitely someone to watch out for.And lastly there is a twist at the end was okay.

• Cream of the chop posted on 03 March 2009

  I attended the world premiere of "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane" at the Toronto Film Festival. From that night on, I couldn't stop talking about it. This film is a gem in so many ways. Young first time director Jonathan Levine has crafted a brilliant twist on the "old school" teen slasher flick. With a script by Jacob Forman, who clearly has a passion for the genre, Levine assembled a frighteningly talented cast of young actors who made these characters so real that it seemed improvised. As it turned out, much of it was, as pointed out in the Q&A which followed the screening. When they partied, they partied. And it results in a natural, carefree ensemble performance that makes this film what it is – pure fun. The production values belie the film's meager budget (500K?). For example, the effective use of neutral film stock, under-processed at times, gives segments of the film a home movie look a la "Blair Witch." The selective use of slow-mo and freeze-frame add to the "big movie" feel of this little indie. As with all good horror films, Levine infuses the film with an appropriately foreboding score. And as an added bonus, the soundtrack features 80's classics which enhance the "old school" feel, especially if you're "old" enough to have been "in school" then. There's plenty of blood and gore here, of course, but tongue is also firmly planted in cheek.File these names under "people to watch": Michael Welch, Aaron Himelstein, Luke Grimes, Edwin Hodge, and Whitney Able. Amber Heard is Mandy Lane (she also shines in "Alpha Dog"). Anson Mount rounds out the cast and is a familiar face to many. Many of the cast were present at the screening, also seeing it for the first time along with the audience. Those I chatted up afterward were humble and gracious, and worthy of all the attention this film deserves. I don't consider myself a horror fan, but of the 30 plus films I saw, this is among the cream of the crop. Or should I say cream of the chop. Put "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane" at the top of your list.

• A Nutshell Review: All The Boys Love Mandy Lane posted on 02 May 2009

  All the boys love Mandy Lane, and the way she is portrayed by Amber Heard, who wouldn't? She's blonde, she's demure, she's so hot that the camera in the movie's introduction to the character, lingered on her T&As. She's a fine athlete though we don't really get to know what kind of graaes she's getting. Every boy in school wants to talk to her, and every one of them wants to get into her pants, earning bragging rights to be the first amongst everyone else to have conquered probably the last bastion of virginity in school. People would do silly things like dying for her too.In typical slasher flick formula, a group of students, Mandy included, organized themselves for a getaway in a secluded ranch, where a ranch hand Garth (Anson Mount) provides that element of question as to who amongst the group will be the hunter, and who will fall as prey. Like how the formula warns against decadent teenage lifestyles, such as the unwritten rules of having the non-virgin being dispatched first and the likes, you're constantly kept guessing as everyone in the group, save for our goody-two-shoes Mandy, get sloshed in a flood of sin, with the smoking of weed, snorting of coke, being highly sexually charged and active, and downing alcohol as if it was water.It does take quite a while for the first person to fall, and you probably won't feel much for the characters that had to kick the bucket in the most violent of deaths, which get shown quite graphically, only to pull back at the last minute through visual tricks and edits the filmmakers use. But for slasher flick fans, it's a long ride to get to this stage, and frankly speaking given that the characters all don't appeal to you (i.e. you couldn't care less if they live or die), the movie does seem to coast along the tried and tested, until its last act.Surprisingly, the narrative decided to reveal its boogeyman quite early on in the film, which provided some perplexing questions. Again for those familiar with the genre, there'll always be a thought niggling in your mind in disbelief that the plot would be so straight forward. Granted as mentioned, the payload comes at the finale, which I thought had two meanings, depending on which concept you subscribe to. First, following reality that the most perverse amongst us tend to be the one most disconnected, and second, punishment coming from someone who doesn't see eye to eye on immoral lifestyles, and want to put a deadly stop to it.I did see the revelation coming, but for the longest time had decided not to believe my gut feeling in the hopes that it would develop into something that will genuinely blow my mind. It's not perfect, but it did have its moments with the following of recent trends in the slasher genre that bad guys don't have to necessarily finish last. Nothing fanciful here, but it still worked to a certain degree. And kudos to both the casting director in putting Amber Heard in the titular role, and for the actress to pull off one of the more memorable lead characters in such a genre flick.

• An east of eden type treatment of hidden evil posted on 18 January 2009

  At first glance this seems only 'teen slasher' (but a professionally filmed and acted slasher). However on reflection, the film clearly is an 'east of eden' story of true evil. Steinbeck would have been thrilled with the treatment which may turn out to be more terrifying on reflection than most teens are prepared to handle. One wonders if the story will be developed in a sequel to evil. Although the ending is unexpected, the film is fair to its audience in providing adequate clues along the way to the source of evil rather than providing only red herrings to miss lead the audience.The movie was beautifully filmed in a striking location in dry land Texas. The movie is worth seeing for the vistas alone.

• Love at first sight! posted on 16 January 2009

  All The Boys Love Mandy Lane is the single best film of 2006, 2007 and 2008! It is a complete throw-back to the '80s slasher genre with a twist. Granted, that twist was a tad predictable, but the film was fun none-the-less. Mandy Lane is a nice addition to the horror genre amongst such remake disgraces as Black Christmas, When A Stranger Calls and The Fog. Mandy Lane is designed to be a basic slasher and it accomplishes just that. It's a shame that Dimension Films and The Weinstein Company dropped this film at the last minute, it might have actually upped their reputation some. If you loved '80s horror movies like the Friday the 13th franchise and Sleepaway Camp's to name a few, then this movie is for YOU!

• All the Boys Love Mandy Lane posted on 27 November 2008

  I saw the trailers of this movie and found the cinematography and what was presented interesting. I saw the IMDb rating and 6.8 confirmed it to be an above average movie. Thus went to see it.The story is about Mandy Lane (Amber Heard) – a beautiful girl in high school who is a subject of male sexual desire. Mandy's friend Emmet's (Michael Welch) provocation to another fellow student to show his love for Mandy, leaves the fellow student drunk and jump down to death. Nine months pass and Mandy is invited for a summer weekend to a secluded ranch by her teenager friends – three girls and three boys go there! There is a security guard Garth (Anson Mount) who works at the ranch. During the first night itself the killings take place – one by one the members of the group are killed. Who is behind the killings? I wont tell here to spoil sports… Did I like the movie? NO. After usual interesting opening – the movie takes a downward turn with every unfolding of event. By half-time when the killer is revealed, one looses all interest in the remaining proceedings. There is a last twist in the tale to shock viewers, but rather it made me shake the head in dis-belief and laugh! All this for suspense? Huh…! Amber Heard acts and plays her role well as a shy and conscious girl – who is aware of her beauty and men's desire for her. The remaining cast are usual – nothing to say about. There are so many movies made of teenager boys and girls going to a secluded place and slowly someone killing them one by one – that it does not interest me anymore.Director Jonathan Levine tries hard to make the movie interesting by using contemporary chat talks of teenagers, loaded with sexual overtones, but does not allow the movie to rise above the mundane.The only and the most appealing saving grace of the movie is its cinematography by Darren Genet – who captures beautiful picture perfect images! (Stars 3 out of 10)

• Don't bother! posted on 21 November 2008

  First of all I can't understand why this film has an overall rating of 7 when it's such rubbish .For one it takes a while to actually get going and when it does nothing much good happens anyway apart from a group of extremely annoying characters gets killed. I didn't like one of the characters, they were all so typical, a skinny blonde who has drug and body problems, teenage guys who wanna f*%k anything going and the quite innocent one who turns out to be a killer. This film is so bad, the story is pointless and the acting is quite appalling. There was only 6 people in the cinema watching this film and 2 of them walked out half way through and which is what I should have done but I thought I would stick it out to see if it got any better which it didn't. The ending just didn't make any sense; it gave no answers as to why Mandy Lane was the killer which I thought was annoying. I knew why Emmet was in on it, that was pretty obvious but why Mandy was on a killing spree? it gave no explanation. Don't bother wasting your time or money on this film, its boring and you really couldn't care less if all the characters die or not as they are so irritating and none of them can act apart from the guy who played Garth, he was the only one who wasn't too bad to watch. Total rubbish, it felt as though the film wasn't finished.

• Beautiful Horror posted on 10 October 2008

  Mandy Lane, first scene: 30 Seconds of a beautiful teenage girl entering her school, walking down the hall with looks all over her, supported by music literally rolling the red carpet for her. She ignores the looks, then stops. Not in front of the highschool football star, not her other pseudo-cool female friends, not her "cute teacher", but some ordinary teenage-plagued boy. The music changes pace, gets slow and mystical. She talks, unexpectedly clear, mature voice: "Ready to go?" "Yeah". Change of scene. In that moment, the movie has you. It wont be your average, overcopied teenage horror flick, the director actually knows what he's doing and what clichés he's dealing with. This impression will follow throughout the movie. It takes all the highschool stereotypes you have got to known just too well, reinstalls them with authentic(!) cast and places them in some beautiful film-making. The music, camera, color-filters, angles, cutting, pace, all A-class, must-see. The horror(story) is creative, also well done, but it's actually not even the (expected)violence that keeps you watching, it's the pure freakish beauty of the film. The end is somewhat twisted, subtle and sophisticated, again showing that the director wanted this movie to differ from his alleged teen-movie predecessors. In the end you can't deny the feeling of just having seen a parody, but not one that cracks jokes about its victims, but one that is just so superior in itself, it makes all the others look stupid.

• great!!!! posted on 18 September 2008

  all the boys love Mandy lane...there are many things to be said about this film. first of all is the originality of it, very good plot and the deaths are all unique. the acting is brilliant and even though some of the actors are not well known, they do a damn sight better job at acting than most of todays big names.the story is of Mandy lane (amber heard) she has been...pretty much a plain Jane throughout her life, but has finally matured and become a beautiful young woman. she and her friend, outcast Emmet (michael welch) are invited to a pool part by the popular group, bitchy but hot blond cheerleader Chloe (Whitney able), her current boy-toy Jake (luke grimes) his two friends red (aaron himelstein) and bird (edwin hodge) apparent fat girl marlin (melissa price) and jock Dylan (adam Powell). during the events of the party, Dylan attempts to flirt with Mandy but ends up getting into a fight with Emmet. later while on Dylan's roof Emmet convinces Dylan to show off to Mandy and jump into the pool. he does so but is killed when he breaks his neck on the bottom of the pool. many months later Mandy is apparently not friends with Emmet any more and is now hanging out with Chloe's crew.they eventually convince her to go to red's ranch and while there an unknown killer (who we found out who he is later on) has an obsession with Mandy and is killing her new friends one by one. o.0the film was great, but the killer's identity really wasn't a shock. it is beautifully filmed and considering it had a low budget, it looked very good. 10/10 from me. i highly recommend this film for all of the above reasons. plus Whitney able was fantastic in this. just thought i'd mention that =D

• A real surprise to the slasher genre posted on 18 September 2008

  Wow, I didn't expect much from this movie considering that its story sounded pretty mediocre. But it didn't take long to realize that "All the boys love Mandy Lane" is far from the typical Slasher Movie and that is because its in all ways superior done... biggest plus is the stunning visuals and cinematography that captures you in a strange dreamlike feeling throughout the movie and is well supported by the use of music which is kind of cynical and used very little but effective. Seeing that this is the first feature film production of Producer Levine I have to lift my thumbs way up for this one! So what do you get... Mandy Lane is a beautiful but rather distanced girl and most boys in her school are after her. After a friend of her dares another guy who is after her to impress Mandy by jumping from a roof ending in a serious accident Mandy distances from him and gives in to join a couple of cool guys and girls on a weekend stay at a land house. You pretty much know whats coming when you got a bunch of teenagers in a house far from other people, so soon the first ones start to disappear. What makes this movie work is the in-depth depiction of the characters, most having their issues behind the mask they wear at high school. A big part of the movie seems to look into a rather bleak and cynical youth, making it seem like a modern high school version of "Stand by me" on acid that heavily mixes with Slashers like "Scream". If you are in for some serious slashing you don't get much but there is some scenes that are incredibly harsh not so much for the blood but rather for the cynical editing and use of stop-frames and music. After all you are in for 1-2 twists in the end and to me the movie leaves a lot to your own interpretation. But all this makes it enjoyable and different. Definitely give this movie a try because it would be a shame if it got lost in the masses of redundant slasher movies... if you got a little bored with the genre like me "All the boys love Mandy Lane" is a real gem.

• All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006) posted on 18 July 2008

  All the boys love Mandy Lane played by Amber Heard from Friday Night Lights (2004), Alpha Dog (2006) & Pineapple Express (2008) & all the girls envy Mandy Lane. But there is more to Many than meets the eye. She is an orphan since a young age & has been raised by her Aunt along with her cousin. Also, she is best friends with Emmet the-social outcast of there high school. He secretly loves her & she knows. Anyway, one day she is invited to one of the jocks pool party's. All the boys there especially Dylan the jock wanna get in her pants. Soon enough Emmet & Dylan are drunk which results in Emmet persuading Dylan to jump off the roof into the pool to impress Mandy. Of course it goes terribly wrong & 9 months later, we see that Mandy & Emmets relationship has died. So this is when Mandy is invited to a weekend away to a remote branch with 2 other girls & 3 other guys in which are all horny (by the way, the guys are trying to steal Mandys virginity away from her). When they arrive, they have fun, drink booze, do drugs, play games, put themselves into sexual situations. In the middle of the film, we find out that someone who is obsessed with Mandy is watching them & is waiting for the right time to...well you know the drill.All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006) has gotten rave reviews when it was released but the reviews that have been posted recently are mostly negative. I knew this movie would somehow charm me but I didn't set my expectations too high just in case the negative reviews were true.It turns out that both the positive & negative reviews were true. It is hard to pull all the positive tones of the film out & comment on/about them because there weren't many. Still, this slasher really charmed me as if it were screaming out it's a good movie. Let me start from my usual order.The plot was unoriginal yet still had a few veins of originality including the twists. But the twists themselves were predictable & the creator of this picture could have easily hidden some sub-plots just to make theses twists be considered as a 'twist'. The thing that got me however is that the while the twists obvious, the last one worked to a degree in which I felt manipulated. This is a positive comment on All The Boys Love Mandy Lane. It really made me like & care for the character & when it turned out that she had orchestrated the whole rampage I realized I had been manipulated. Well not entirely because I had expected something like this to happen but...well this film just has this appeal which i can't explain.All The Boys Love Mandy Lane has this 70's feel to it which was reminiscent of all the old horror classics. Intentional or not i liked it. The score helps even more & the direction is good. The acting too, is good. Yet none of the characters were really developed. Still, they were each given depth & the dumb blonde chick was funny. Speaking of humor, this movie was full of it & that along with the final scenes reminded me of Scream (1996).The gore is realistic-the whole movie is realistic & really gritty especially the chase scene in the end which should have lasted longer but sadly didn't. The death scenes are full of characters making stupid decisions which lowered the films potential (& this flick had lots of potential, indeedy). Also, none of the death scenes are scary or suspenseful or intense or anything like that. This was a real letdown but still while the death scenes are not very original, inventive or well set-up/done, they can be very effective & realistic. Gore is not a key point to All The Boys Love Mandy Lane anyway but gore fans won't be too disappointed as the violence & gore is vicious enough.All in all a predictable sometimes clichéd slasher/thriller which will hopefully amuse & entertain you for 87 minutes as it did for me. 3 out of 5 stars.

• Another poor slasher? posted on 07 December 2008

  I was not very impressed when watching this particular film.However the way it was directed as a 'teen' movie was admirable because of the issues and conventions you would normally see.However i felt that was the narrative progressed, it became more and more vague, until the drama hits and i became extremely confused and lost the entire plot.Disregarding the narrative, i was impressed with the performance of Amber Heard, Michael Welch and Anson Mount, but sadly felt that some of the actors were rather lazy when it comes to dying.It seems the director spends more time finding genius, gory and elaborate ways to kill people rather than come up with a convincing story to go with it.

• Awesome gem that is sure to become a horror classic posted on 07 August 2008

  I have waited almost two whole years to see All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. It's gotten good buzz all across the board from all sorts of horror websites, so I was extremely excited. I was hopeful even when the US release date kept getting bumped back. Now, it's stuck in "TBA". Who knows when the film will finally be released? Not this year, certainly. So I just resorted to watching it online.All the Boys Love Mandy Lane isn't your conventional horror films by any means. It has a few clichés littered around here and there, but for the most part, it's extremely original, grotesque, disturbing, and oodles of fun. The acting is spot-on, the directing was superb, and the gritty 80's look and feel of the film made for all sorts of cool vibes.Mandy Lane got hot over the summer. Everyone noticed. And this leads to a party where her best friend Emmet is the cause of a dumb jock's accidental death. Nine months later, Mandy has moved on and is hanging with a new group of friends, and they plan a party at a ranch house. A fun weekend of drinking, drugs, and plenty of sex. But soon, Mandy's friends start being killed off one by one… As stereotypical as the plot may sound, Mandy Lane is not your typical teen slasher film. It deals with very new and important themes, and none of the characters are empty or hollow. All of them have depth and feel like real teenagers with real problems. The dialogue is realistic as well, and the previously mentioned gritty tone of the movie flows so well and gives the whole ordeal a special cinematic quality that is rarely seen these days.The acting in the film is part of what makes the movie. Each person fills their respective roles so well, and that is one of Lane's most spectacular qualities. Amber Heard, who plays the film's title role, has a lot to live up to playing Mandy Lane, a girl who is supposedly loved by everyone, and she pulls it off beautifully. She displays a wide range of emotions and way my favorite of the cast. Anson Mount plays Garth, who provides an aura of superiority because he is older than the others. He makes for a likable character and did a lot with what he was provided. Luke Grimes (Jake) played an ass extremely well. His character is more than skin deep though, and he displays his acting chops with great finesse. Michael Welch was great as Emmet, and his role was probably the most challenging to pull off. Edwin Hodge as Bird was great, especially since he shot down the stereotype of the funny black guy. He had more to him that it first appeared, and Hodge was the perfect fit for the role. The others (Aaron Himelstein as Red, Melissa Price as Marlin, and Whitney Able as Chloe) all did what they could with the material they were provided.Director Jonathan Levine and writer Jacob Forman are the perfect combo and make the film both memorable and classic. The soundtrack is perfect and fits so well with the creepy situations. This is another of those fantastic films that you just know will be passed down from generation to generation. A new movie to watch on Halloween night, and a classic in its own right. As high as my expectations were, it didn't disappoint for even a second. Make some popcorn, call some friends, and watch the new horror classic, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane.