The Curse of Downers Grove

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The Curse of Downers Grove

Released Aug 21, 2015

1h 29m

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

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A teen (Bella Heathcote) fears that she's next in line for a curse that kills one high-school senior every year before graduation day.

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Peter Sobczynski

RogerEbert.com

Too dumb to be scary, too listlessly written and directed to be suspenseful and too unpleasant to work as camp ...

Rated: 1.5/4

Aug 21, 2015

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Martin Tsai

Los Angeles Times

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.

Aug 20, 2015

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

A messy hash of teen soap opera, stalker thriller and whatnot whose titular possibly-supernatural aspect is basically irrelevant.

Aug 20, 2015

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Matt Donato

We Got This Covered

The Curse Of Downers Grove is just another lackluster high-school-based thriller like the twenty billion that have come before it.

Rated: 5/10

Aug 27, 2015

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Brent Simon

Paste Magazine

The film sets up this curse hanging over the heads of its central characters, but doesn't plumb it for lingering tension, at least as far as it relates to the actual story.

Rated: 3.5/10

Aug 26, 2015

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Yasmin Kleinbart

The Young Folks

The Curse of Downer's Grove felt more like an extended episode of Pretty Little Liars rather than a horror film.

Rated: 3/10

Aug 25, 2015

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mark g

No, not scary at all. However, there is some style in the direction and cinematography here. It's visually cool. Guessing the director has a videos background. Script not great, but it's not a terrible movie.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

08/22/24

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Peter G

It’s too bad this film was received so poorly because it’s a great thriller-drama that blends the essence of something supernatural with real life horrors. Not a perfect film but far under appreciated!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/19/24

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Audience Member

Ridiculous. Teen age movie. Some teenagers. I know all teenagers are not stupid enough to watch this.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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the Best part of this movie was the 2 sandwiches I crushed while dipping both mayonnaise monsters into a steaming pile of Ketchup. Would rather play splatoon or read a hole NRA manual to be a better American then watch this shit show.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Audience Member

The movies location is about all that is worth mentioning after screening this disaster. What was missing was a sickly vampire or a muscle bound meat head with 2% body fat who wears legend of Zelda shoes. The short guy in the movie who hisses at everyone and can't stop watching the syfy channel was a real asset to the show. His character could really help in the sequel.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

Sooooooo bad. So many things wrong. Just a few: no adults. no parents. no neighbors. HS girl lifting and throwing a 30 pound car battery like a candy bar. 15 year old boy being admitted to a hospital for surgery, and no one calling parents, AND he's back home in an hour or two. Multiple gunshots from a house and no one calls police. SO bad it's funny.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Synopsis

A teen (Bella Heathcote) fears that she's next in line for a curse that kills one high-school senior every year before graduation day.

Director: Derick Martini
Producer: Chiara Trento, Oren Segal, Jason Dubin
Screenwriter: Bret Easton Ellis, Derick Martini
Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Production Co: Myriad Pictures
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 21, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 30, 2016
Runtime: 1h 29m

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