I first watched this movie when I was 8 years old. I watched it again because there was stuff an 8 year old mind misses in a mature movie. Chapin was always my favorite because she just doesn't care, but she has a dark past. I feel like I relate to her because she acts all tough but deep down she's breaking. The movie starts off with Eve having a party for her 16th birthday. Her friends Cicely, Nina, and Sarah are in their own little group. Chapin is only Eve's friend. And then there's Eliza, whose nickname is "Rat Girl." I felt bad because she genuinely seemed like a nice person and I didn't understand why everyone was so mean to her. They are all at Eve's and Chapin tells them they should play the game Triple Dog. This game is full of dares and if you don't complete your dare, you get your head shaved. Throughout the movie there are flash backs to days earlier explaining the events that lead up to where the girls are now. There is a girl names Stacey St. Claire that is talked about and her story is pieced together throughout the movie. Chapin and Eliza don't like each other because Eliza kept nagging Chapin on about how she got kicked out of her old school. I think Chapin lashes out because she has guilt built up inside. Eve is waiting for her dad to call her because she really believes he still cares. The dares start and right off the bat the first dare Sarah has to streak. I knew I would already lose the game at this point. In between every dare scene a flashback comes up. Eve was asking many people about the story of the death of Stacey St. Claire. Each person gave a different story but the ending was always the same, she drowned after going off a bridge. The dares went on and Eliza had to stay in Eve's brother's closet. I felt bad because I think this dare was given to her because they didn't want to be around her. Nina had to fake a seizure at the place where one of their classmates work. Her name was Valerie. She told Chapin, "Be careful you know what happened last time you played that game." She took it like a grain of salt and left. Cicely had to pee on the steps of their principal's house. Chapin had to mug a convenient store. Then Eve had to go to third base with her crush. Eve's crush liked Chapin instead and kissed her, so she didn't complete her dare. Eve saw this and got upset. Eve started yelling at Chapin and asked what really happened to Stacey St. Claire. Chapin took off to the bridge where Stacy St. Claire died. The backstory came up and showed that Chapin dared her to jump off the bridge. She did and never came back up. It went back to present time and showed Chapin jumping off the bridge. She got caught in the same current that Stacey did. All of the girls were screaming and looking for her. They went down to the banks and found her shoe. Eve was crying because she thought her best friend died. Then Chapin came up the bank and Eve started yelling at her, saying she thought she died. Chapin was crying saying she didn't know how strong the current was and she didn't mean for Stacey to die. Eve comforted her and they hugged each other and walked out of frame. The girls all walked off the bridge and they go to a park. Since Eve didn't complete her dare she had to get her head shaved. She called her dad because he never called her and he yelled at her to never call that late again. She cried and said shave my head. The razor is going in slow motion while her hair is falling. When her head is completely shaved the girls were crying. Eve said, "Why are you crying, it's my hair." I really took that line to heart for no real reason. The scene changed to later and Chapin went back to the bridge. She kissed the memorial of Stacey St. Claire and the screen goes black. This had always given me chills. There were times where they showed the dead body of Stacey and to an 8 year old thats terrifying. This gave me nightmares for a decent amount of time. But watching it now it didn't affect me. And that tells me that I'm not a kid anymore.
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I went into this movie not knowing what to think. The movie started off pretty normal. When I saw the couple Dani and Christian I said wow that's a toxic relationship. Then when Dani was freaking out about her sister, thinking she was dead, Christian's friends were telling him to break up with her. Their first reason was that she was clingy and then they went on to say that she didn't put out. Christian said that he could be getting a girl pregnant right now, and this really infuriated me. Turns out Dani's sister committed suicide and killed their parents. Josh, Mark, Pelle, Christian and Dani went on a trip to Sweden to Pelle's village. When they got there they met some people, Connie and her fiancé Simon. They all did shrooms together. Dani started to hallucinate. They went to the village and I thought it was really pretty and everyone was nice. They were going to have a party for the summer solstice. I thought everything was going to be normal but boy was I wrong. First these two old people jumped off a cliff onto a rock and their faces came off. Then Connie and Simon magically disappeared to which I later found out they were killed. Then Christian was attempted to be seduced by this girl named Maya. He refused at first but oh did that change. Mark peed on the tree of the ancestors which I thought was hilarious but the village people did not. He ended up being killed. Josh was doing his thesis on the village and he tried to take pictures of their sacred book to which he was also killed for. Dani ended up being crowned May queen. She was taken to bless the crops while Christian was lured into a building to have sexual intercourse with Maya. He did, but all while all of these women were chanting around them. Dani heard this and went to see. She started crying and her little servant like girls started scream crying just like her. It was really odd. Then she had to choose who to sacrifice and she chose Christian. Basically the movie ended with Christian being put inside a bear and put into this sacred temple. All around him were the bodies of his friends and the other two sacrifices. These people lit the temple on fire and the ending shot was Dani smiling while Christian burned.
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