With many thanks to Loyd Cryer and Texas Frightmare I was able to head over to Addison to catch an advance screening of Assignation Nation opening to continue my delving into this “Technological Terror” flicks that I am taking a look at this month.
Now while this flick is a satire that bills itself as Heathers and The Purge it does explore something we have to look at about ourselves. We put too much information on our divices and what happened when this information is exposed
Debuting at Sundance this past a January our flick tells the story of a group of the traditional “Mean Girls” that are subject to many online activities ranging from sexting and cyber bullying.
Well the ladies aren’t the only ones that are misbehaving online as many of the town of Salem are having their own indiscretions and soon there is a sonystyle mass hack in which all secrets are revealed.
Needless to say the film mostly focuses on the reaction of the town’s citizens who placed the blame on our quartet who must survive the night.
What begins as a vulgar comedy soon selves into dark horror and maintains the golden rule that anyone can Die at any moment and soon takes the cartoon approach. Which really makes this film fore of a mix of Heathers, The Purge and a Little off The Strangers and Halloween with the use of continuous takes and camera movement.
Actually I liked that aspect of he film and was pleasantly surprised. I thought this flick would have taken the Cookie Cutter approach but they didn’t and with the flick taking a heavy emphasis on Satire we once again have to take a look at ourselves and realize that in many cases the mob mentality and what we do in private and our quickness to judge, we need to think about that.
15 Dead Bodies
0 Breasts
Throat Slashing
Face Bashing
Head Bashing
Shooting
Exploding Heads
Massive Shooting
Inappropriate Texting
Gratuitous Crossdressing
Gratuitous Creepy Masks
Computer Fu
Vigilante Fu
Teenager Fu
3 Stars
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