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The Real Curse Of Downers Grove . . ."I saw more people die in high school than in the rest of my life," Downers Grove South graduate Michael Hornburg tells the Daily Herald. "One kid died in a car crash," he said. "One kid drowned in a quarry. The girl who sat next to me in typing class, she was kidnapped outside of an arcade and was found murdered inside a garbage bag in Lisle. So there was a lot of murder and mayhem and people getting killed on a scale I never experienced again." A movie based on his book The Curse of Downers Grove is out Tuesday on Blu-ray, DVD and video on demand. We asked Hornburg if he had seen The Curse of Downers Grove and if he approved of the huge changes made from his original book, all about a high school senior named Chrissy who becomes slightly obsessed that she might fall victim to "the curse." * IMDB describes the movie as "A teen angst thriller at a high school gripped by an apparent curse that claims the life of a senior every year." * Bret Easton Ellis wrote the screenplay, which is why some promo material say "From the author of American Psycho." * The book dates back to 1996; "Full of humor, wit, and the sacrilegious worldview of a savvy teenager, Downers Grove paints a searing portrait of the American dream in all its broken glory." * Filming took place in the Lincoln Park neighborhood - of Pomona, California. * Katie Rife of the A.V. Club gives the movie a C-, writing that The Curse Of Downer's Grove is very impressed with its own cleverness, which it flaunts with flourishes like the always-distressing omniscient voice-over; dream sequences that wouldn't be out of place in a mid-'90s VH1 rock block; a sentimental slideshow of our leads that, like most of the film's male characters, is creepily fixated on [lead actress Bella] Heathcote; and a wholly unnecessary minute-and-a-half long post-credits stinger. Like the most popular student at a suburban high school, it thinks it's something special. But it won't make it in the big city." * With Tom Arnold. * ImDontai reacts to the trailer: - Posted on September 1, 2015 |
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