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Molly Ringwald stars in this Australian Scream-like horror flick that lodges a tongue in the cheek as much as a knife in the gut. The film opens in 1988 when director Hilary Jacobs (Australian uber-icon Kylie Minogue) is working on a slasher movie called "Hot Blooded" starring plucky American icon ...more

What you have here is your basic Scream template: young adults with satiric senses of cinema besieged by a costumed murderous stalker with a secret motive. It's hardly as unoriginal as it sounds: The film is shot through with the kinetic Aussie twists that Down Under filmmakers seem incapable of avoiding. The energy is real even if the horror is hokum, and that alone keeps one watching. Molly Ringwald gamely goes where countless scream queens have gone before, bravely cashing in on her cult icon ...more