SnoopyStyle In the small town of Downers Grove, Illinois, there is a well-known curse of one high school senior dying every year before graduation. Chrissie Swanson (Bella Heathcote) fights off football jock Chuck (Kevin Zegers) during a party and gouges out his eye. She has a crush on Bobby (Lucas Till). Her weird neighbor Ian is a friend. Her best friend Tracy is planning to throw a wild party with her little brother. It's days before graduation.Bella is a beauty with striking blue eyes. Her acting ability is functional. The same can be said of Lucas Till. He's beautiful with functional acting abilities. Zegers is growing into his villain phase although he's too old to play a teen. Actually, Bella is almost the same age but she can play younger. I can do without Tom Arnold even if he does fine here. This sets up a teen horror of some sorts. It's not the highest quality but it does have potential. The major problem is that the premise does not lead to a series of kills. The bigger potential is the mystery but it becomes an action thriller anyways. The 'curse' becomes a side issue and the reveal is not that surprising. The central premise might as well be forgotten.

John Stutsman Let me get this out right off the bat, there is no curse,, and if there is, they completely forgot that there was supposed to be a curse by about 15 minutes into the movie. A more appropriate title would have just been "Dowers Grove" as this movie really is a dower. The entire movie I was trying to figure out where the curse would come in at, but it never did. I'm also really confused why all these guys seem so into this girl who isn't even all that attractive or have any decent girlfriendish qualities herself. As a character she was very.... stale. I was confused as to how someone who took "conflict resolution" classes would think throwing a brick through the window of a guy who tried to rape her and is harassing her and her friends, is a good idea at all. Oh, and why oh why do the brother and sister insist on not telling their mother about what is going on because they wanted her to enjoy her vacation in Vegas.... that whole premise was laughable and unbelievable. In fact the entire premise came off as laughable and unbelievable. Honestly, this seemed like a movie that would be produced by and shown on Lifetime. There is no horror to it, just a very very poor crime drama. Really, no need to watch this.,. save yourself the time and mental anguish in trying to figure out what they were thinking.Oh and one more thing, no need to wait through the 9 minutes of ending credits to get to the final hidden "scene". Its just the same little non sense images that the girl was thinking through the entire movie, put together into one. Some of the imagery doesn't even make sense... such as the crow, the cross, and the church. This movie is just a big waste of time from the beginning to the very very very end.

Puffer Bluntman The Curse of Downers Grove would probably have been an OK by-the-book revenge/payback thriller with elements of home invasion in line with I Spit On Your Grave and An Eye For An Eye... if it wasn't for the absolutely out of nowhere W.T.F. ending, which just leaves you wondering what the hell that was all about. Without giving out any spoilers, the general feeling The Curse of Downer Grove leaves you with is as if you were reading a decent Stephen King book which for some reason ended with a sentence "And then they all got naked and started farting on each other". You might have enjoyed the rest of the text, but the way it ends would just leave you wondering just what exactly went wrong there.

quincytheodore Let's get the premise clear, there is barely any curse in this movie. It only used as a pretext to shoehorn script made of Facebook cheesy one-liners from a typical teenager's page. The movie is shallow and barely presents any thrill at all, it merely produces predictable story with abundance of flamboyant dialogues that only serve as lackluster musing.Chrissie is a senior high school student at Downers Grove. There's a strange curse that a senior will die before graduation. It creates a sort of Final Destination foreshadowing at start, but this curse is far-fetched to say the least. The story is a straight forward, slow-moving stalker cliché and despite its relatively short runtime, the movie feels highly tedious.Chrissie uses monologues a lot, as in almost every five minutes. When she's not doing that, she's spewing commentary about life or religion. It's an effort to give this average brunette female lead some depth to her character so audience would invest on her. Unfortunately, her bantering sounds authentic, almost to the point of reading from cat poster.She even delivers monologue on the scenes where she has no business in. This gets old fast since it sounds preachy and self-righteous. It doesn't help when the other characters are too one-dimensional, probably in the exception of her younger brother who reminds me of young John Connor. The actors perform their characters rigidly and even though the movie tries to give mystery about them or the near irrelevant curse, you'll see the twist from miles away.For a movie with grim title of The Curse of Downers Grave, it is incredibly feeble and timid. I guess Cheap Scream Knock-off wouldn't generate any interest, but unfortunately that's what this movie is.