Director: Juan Pablo Arias Munoz
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: What She Doesn't Know
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Preparing for their senior year, a group of high school students becomes aware of a serial killer stalking the other classmates with them and decides to seek safety inside a friend’s lavish mansion while the school year plays out, unaware they’ve been found and targeted by the killer.
Review:
Overall, this was an intriguing if problematic slasher throwback. One of the brighter factors with this one is the immensely solid and somewhat intriguing setup about the lives of students trying to enjoy the final stages of their senior year being interrupted by the presence of a serial killer. The whole idea about the group being forced into the house where they can safely stay tucked away from the world while they watch the news reports about the killer’s victims being classmates offers up the kind of engrossing start that plays well for the first half. As they settle in, try to keep their personalities in check and embark on the final stages into adulthood, this tries to latch onto their safety net around them at the expense of moving on with life, with how differently their plans are after the fact.
While this attempt at instigating enough of a character study on its own, the whole approach here is wasted with some of the most egregiously underwhelming slasher storyline that takes any sense of fear out of the film from the very beginning. The majority of the film is spent stuck inside their friends’ mansion house, where they spend the majority of the time doing nothing but lounging around the pool, drinking, or commenting on their state of life, leaving this to run like a teen coming-of-age drama rather than an overt slasher film. Even the parts where it tries to incorporate some life into things in the final half are just as bland, with little stakes and no real thrills to be had from employing such an expected and obvious finale twist that isn’t shocking at all. That leaves this without much in the way of being a slasher, and problematic aspects when it is featured for some big problems overall.
Overview: *.5/5
An intriguing coming-of-age tale but sorely lacking as a slasher, this one is a missed opportunity with the way it takes what could’ve been an intriguing concept and does little of anything interesting with it. Those with an appreciation for this style or approach will be the main audience for this one, as the flaws here will keep this one from being enjoyed by too many and should heed caution.
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