All The Boys Love Mandy Lane Review

All The Boys Love Mandy Lane directed by Jonathan Levine

Mandy Lane (Amber Heard) is that girl that resides in every high school that all the boys want and the one all the girls want to be.  Mandy is perfectly flawless, she’s beautiful, athletic, smart and oh yeah…a virgin.

As junior year draws to an end, a group of high schoolers invite Mandy to a weekend long party on an isolated ranch. The guys call dibs and take bets on who will nail miss Lane, the girls, minus Mandy, are discussing which guy they will be sleeping with. As the festivities rage on into the night there seems to be someone in a hoodie sneaking around outside. Needless to say the bodies start piling up one by one.

The director Jonathan Levine does a great job at delivering a solid slasher film. He doesn’t go for shocking scares like most directors, instead the killer comes right up to you with a shotgun. Levine also doesn’t hesitate in showing us the killer, whose identity is reviled rather early on. I had a good hunch on who it was, but I was surprised to find out so early in the film. The gore is great, the kills are simple and yet gritty at the same time. The first is by far the best and the most creative of all the deaths. I also loved the light flashes and spots of slow motion during the struggles.

Despite it being made in 2006 and out in every country, Mandy’s virtue is still untouched by the American audience. You can import copies if you have a region-free DVD player, or you can just snatch up a bootleg from a convention until its glorious release, which still does not have a date. Mandy Lane is one of the newer films that do the slasher genre justice. With all the hype around it, I was expecting a mediocre film, but it turned out to be pretty damn amazing. I can honestly say I am one of those boys that love Mandy Lane.

All The Boys Love Mandy Lane gets a very deserving 5 out of 5!