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90 MINUTES | Violent, bloody, crowd-pleasing murder is a reliable way to bring in a crowd: even if the plot is predictable, the acting wooden, and the dialogue laughable, at least the gore is consistent. Jeff Wadlow’s film can’t manage even that: it’s not scary and there’s hardly any blood. The setting is a posh boarding school, where new transfer Owen (Julian Morris, doing a decent job as the good guy) gets sucked into a game where a group of students invent a serial killer to scare the campus. Surprise! — spooky things start to happen. Cryptic e-mails and unseen stalkers are all well and good, but a horror movie needs a body count. And a horror movie this boring needs a high one.
BY BROOKE HOLGERSON
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