Starring Anna Kendrick, Paul Wesley, Jeff Phillips, Shannon Holt, Tania Raymonde
Directed by Nathan Hope
Distributed by E1 Entertainment
Elsewhere opens by asking the viewer if they’ve ever had a secret that they couldn’t live with keeping. Immediately my eyes began to roll, and they just did not stop. Strap in, kids; it’s time once again for your old Uncle Creepy to be your bad movie martyr.
Sarah (Kendrick) and Jillian (Raymonde) are best friends stuck in a nowhere town with seemingly no way out. Everything is cookie-cutter and stamped out. Jillian, the bad girl of our duo, decides to post semi-nude pics of herself on a MySpace-like site to attract some exciting new guys, and guess what? She finds one! Known only as Mister X (I shit you not), this dude sweeps our naive pretty right off of her cyber-feet — never to be seen again. From there it’s up to Sarah and her nerdy side-kick to unravel the mystery presented before them while inadvertently uncovering their town’s little secret.
If this all sounds very after-school-special-ish, it’s because that it is. Everything from Elsewhere‘s horrendous dialogue to its cautionary premise is ripped straight from the pages of any generic young-adult oriented horror paperback that can be found lying dusty and yellowed on the shelf of book stores everywhere.
The movie is available on both DVD and Blu-ray, and with the exception of the picture and sound quality, the packages are identical. We get a dry commentary from Hope and producer Vincent Palomino, a handful of deleted scenes, a generic making-of, and of course a photo gallery so that you can relive the tedium one still at a time.
The one thing I will say for this film is that it’s aptly titled. Throughout the entire viewing experience all I could do was wish that I was elsewhere. Skip it. Avoid it. Shun it. I ain’t kidding, folks. This movie sucks.
Special Features
1 1/2 out of 5
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2 out of 5
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