{"id":44561,"date":"2024-07-21T18:40:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T22:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=44561"},"modified":"2024-07-21T20:51:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T00:51:24","slug":"hell-is-a-teenage-girl-2023-fantasia-film-festival-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/21\/hell-is-a-teenage-girl-2023-fantasia-film-festival-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell is a Teenage Girl (2023) [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s a great movie desperate to be set free with Stephen Sawchuk\u2019s \u201cHell is a Teenage Girl\u201d and sadly it\u2019s only a pretty good movie when all is said and done. There\u2019s so much lore and back story hinted at that the movie, at fourteen minutes, barely scratches the surface of. And we\u2019re told that protagonist Parker is blamed for her dad being the Springsboro Slasher. But why? There are a lot of \u201cBut Why?\u2019s\u201d that will be spouted during the short. Although it is a neat, creative (if not wholly original) short, there\u2019s just so much more tinkering and glossing up that needs to happen before\/if a feature is ever greenlit.<\/p>\n

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Every Halloween, the small town of Springboro is terrorized by its resident SLASHER \u2013 a masked serial killer who targets sinful teenagers that break \u2018The Rules of Horror\u2019 \u2013 don\u2019t drink, don\u2019t do drugs, and don\u2019t have sex! At the center of it all is Parker Campbell, the Slasher\u2019s estranged biological daughter. In an attempt to clear her name and make things right with the town, Parker sets out on a life-or-death mission in hopes of ending his reign of terror once and for all.<\/p>\n

The direction by Stephen Sawchuk is very good often feeling like a throwback to what\u2019s become the more pulpy slasher films like \u201cFreaky\u201d and \u201cHappy Death Day.\u201d Sawchuk sets up all the pieces and positions the story well with the setting of Halloween, potential cannon fodder for the slasher, and even giving the main character her own support system. But in the fourteen minute run time there\u2019s not a lot of exploration as to the whys. Why did Parker\u2019s dad become a slasher? Why didn\u2019t he target her? Why does he adhere to the rules of the horror movie? Why does he only rise during Halloween?<\/p>\n

Is he a supernatural being or a mortal being? Why was Parker chastised for her father\u2019s actions? Has anyone else ever tried to catch the Springsboro Slasher? Does everyone else in town know about the rules? Do they apply only on Halloween or every day of the year? Why did Parker engage in rule breaking to catch her father only to remain so woefully unprepared? There\u2019s just so much more that needed discussing that I was admittedly distracted and it hindered a lot of the novelty and characterization that the short thrived on. I think with a much longer format, and more tongue in cheek humor, \u201cHell is a Teenage Girl\u201d could be fantastic.<\/p>\n

This year the Fantasia International Film Festival runs in Montreal from July 18th<\/sup> to August\u00a0 4th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a great movie desperate to be set free with Stephen Sawchuk\u2019s \u201cHell is a Teenage Girl\u201d and sadly it\u2019s only a pretty good movie when all is said and done. There\u2019s so much lore and back story hinted at that the movie, at fourteen minutes, barely scratches the surface of. And we\u2019re told that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,1284,12],"tags":[441,477,501,938,950],"class_list":["post-44561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film","tag-slasher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44569,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44561\/revisions\/44569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}