A group of teens decide to film their senior year of high school. They have at least two cameras going at all times and the footage shows they are unlikable douchebags.
During a huge party at Dawsons house, his friends and some girls convince him to leave and head to a cliff where they take turns jumping into the water. When Melissa refuses to jump because she can’t swim, the other girls are inexplicably condescending and accuse her of wanting attention. After being egged on by Brian, Dawson pushes her off the cliff.
When she doesn’t surface, Brian jumps in and finds her body. While some people want to call the cops, Brian says this will ruin their future. He convinces everyone to go along with hiding the body, pretending they never left the party, and never speaking of it again.
Apparently things went pretty well because the next thing we see is their graduation and how happy everyone is about their bright future. But after everyone gets a text to meet at Dawson’s, a dvd is left on the porch for them to watch. It starts with footage of graduation, before cutting to video of them loading Melissa’s body into Brian’s SUV and the words if you don’t tell, I will.
Brian, who pressured everyone into hiding the body, says Dawson is the one who murdered her, so the others will be okay if the police are involved. Dawson feels betrayed and plays the victim. Things are left up in the air until members of the group are stalked by a killer in a graduation gown and cap.
They suspect Melissa’s brother, who is a veteran, of trying to kill them. So Dawson and his girlfriend visit him, saying they are making a documentary about his sister. That’s pretty weird, but not as weird as saying, “We had no idea that they never found Melissa’s body.” If she’s missing and no one knows what happened to her, it’s not a great idea to talk about her as if she’s dead.
I’d advise you not to spend your time on this one because it’s not that compelling to begin with and the twist at the end makes it all the more frustrating. So if you don’t want to know the twist, don’t read any further.
What makes this movie so ridiculous is that the opening scene of the kid with a gun outside the school is also the ending. Dawson walks out of the school after finding another friend dead at the hands of the killer. He doesn’t notice the three or four cars in front of him with their headlights illuminating him. Then he puts the gun to his head and fires as his friends come running from the darkness. It was all a prank.
Yes, his friends had a brilliant idea for the best senior prank ever. They would convince him he killed Melissa on the night of the party, and keep the prank going the entire senior year. Then after graduation, they would pretend someone knew their secret and was murdering them one by one. Ow my sides, the hilarity.
What sort of friends think it’s funny to convince you that you killed someone and then keep the ruse going for the whole school year? It’s bad enough to do for one night, but to do this for eight or nine months is horrendous. They are the worst.
The questions this brings up:
- Did Melissa transfer schools just for this prank?
- If a killer is in your house, why would you call your friend rather than the police?
- Why doesn’t Dawson notice no one at school is talking about Melissa being missing and there is no mention of it on social media?
- How does he miss this story is not in the news and the police aren’t questioning anyone?
- Why would they keep the tapes from that night? They plan to say they never left the party, but they hold onto tapes that destroy their alibi.
- Why would Dawson keep the tapes at the high school? It’s a public space and someone could find them.
- Why did he leave the tapes at school after he graduated? It would be odd to go back since he isn’t a student.
Ridiculous dialogue
You’re a sweetheart. You’re one of the sweetest, most genuine people I know and I actually feel kind of bad for this but I had to go along with it. It was too good.
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| Dawson tells his Mom he wants a lock on the door so she can’t barge in, but there is deadbolt already on the door. |
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| Yeah we’re going to film our entire senior year |
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| Uh I think you’re taken filming every thing a bit too far |
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| Always good to call your friend when an intruder’s in the house |
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| They are jumping off the cliff into the water… |
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| …but when they look for Melissa, the water is only knee deep |
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