This goes as well as you could expect. The video is played in front of the rest of the class, and both Faye and the teacher are embarrassed. Your email address will not be published. By If it wasn’t for strong performances by the some of the cast, it would be very tempting to switch off. Games, Horror & Heavy Metal…What Else Is Life For? Thankfully, Georgina Jane’s Faye is likable, Michael Owusu is charismatic and Sarah T. Cohen’s Elise is such a bitch, you’ll crave her comeuppance. It felt like everything I had just watched was all for naught. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Copyright © 2020 Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life. When the Fun Stops, Stop. Once Cupid makes his belated return, some of the goofy sensibility returns as well, and in addition to shooting his poison arrows, Cupid kills people by jamming bouquets of roses down their throats, slicing bits of flesh out of them with heart-shaped cookie-cutters, and throwing Valentine’s Day cards at them like ninja stars. The love destroyer spell, as you would imagine, also backfires as Cupid terrorizes the school on Valentine’s Day. That whole scene is a fakeout, though, and most of the movie takes place in a sparsely populated high school, where shy, vaguely gothy teen Faye (Georgina Jane) nurses a crush on her teacher Mr. Jones (Michael Owusu) and is tormented by popular ice queen Elise (Sarah T. Cohen). The film really needed this kind of grotesqueness to match the absurdity of the plot, so in that aspect, the murders worked, whereas they most likely would not have in another type of film with a more serious tone.eval(ez_write_tag([[336,280],'filmthreat_com-box-4','ezslot_12',113,'0','0'])); So there is probably a better way to spend your Valentine’s Day, but there is an audience for these types of films. "…needed this kind of grotesqueness to match the absurdity of the plot...", Your email address will not be published. For every A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, there’s a Thankskilling. Writer-director Scott Jeffrey uses a lot of the familiar techniques of quickie Christmas horror movies in Cupid, a deeply stupid slasher movie of sorts featuring the legendary god of love as its homicidal antagonist. Have low expectations going in and you’ll find yourself pleasantly surprised. There are survivors by the end of the film, but the ending is what killed me, even more than the campiness of the film.eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'filmthreat_com-medrectangle-4','ezslot_10',112,'0','0'])); There is a problematic ending. There’s nothing scary or suspenseful about the movie, and even potential moments of horror are undermined by the unconvincing performances. You can sense the... Film Threat cares about your privacy and the security of your information. Bloody Valentine’s Day is just upon us, and what better way to enjoy it than sitting next to your loved one, snuggling, accompanied by some drinks and a horror movie? She finds a spell that will summon Cupid the love destroyer. After these quick murders, the gore calms down for quite a while, and the story kicks in.eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'filmthreat_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_8',111,'0','0'])); “Faye is in love with her teacher and casts a love spell to try to win him over…”. Faye goes back to the spellbook and looks for something more powerful. All rights reserved. The only way to succeed with a movie like this on a budget of what looks like $42 is to make it completely ridiculous, and the opening scene after the prologue starts off on the right track, as a sleazy guy on a bad date is confronted by his distraught daughter, who has summoned Cupid in anger over her parents’ divorce. A very lengthy opening done in an animated style tells us the ‘true’ story of Cupid. Faye (Georgina Jane) is in love with her teacher (Michael Owusu) and casts a love spell to try to win him over. ... Writer-director Scott Jeffrey uses a lot of the familiar techniques of quickie Christmas horror movies in Cupid, a deeply stupid slasher movie of sorts featuring the legendary god of love as its homicidal antagonist. After that prologue, it looks like the movie is starting properly but, no. Like many twisted takes on the origins of Santa Claus, Cupid opens with a crudely animated storybook prologue revealing the “real” story of Cupid, who actually hates love and wants to destroy it (of course). Review: Cupid. Jan 29th, 2020 Josh Bell. Cupid begins to murder one in his path. It turns out he is a great shot with a bow and arrow. Faye has a book helpfully labeled “Black Magic” from which she first casts a spell to make Mr. Jones love her, and then, when she falls victim to a prank by Elise and her band of minions, casts another spell to summon Cupid and “destroy love” for everyone at the school (or at least the handful of main cast members hanging around). The movie was clearly shot in the U.K. (all the cars have steering wheels on the right) and cast with British actors, but Jeffrey has most of them putting on horrible, inconsistent American accents, which are far more distracting than just acknowledging that the movie takes place in another country. REVIEW: With all the groundwork laid, the movie begins properly by introducing Faye (Georgina Jane), a young school girl who is hated by the popular mean girls. She sends Faye messages pretending to be him wanting the pair to meet. On Valentine’s Day, Cupid does in fact rise and will stop at nothing until the walls are covered in blood.

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