everyone in this movie tell raffy carruthers how talented she be and what a great director she will one day turn out to be and etc . i think theyre just be nice . even kimble rendall and who direct this film and show more talent than she do . the next jane campion and they call her while and and even apart from the fact that theyre both over rat and the two have so much in common . they both direct movie . theyre both woman . theyre both australian . ( well and give or take . ) yep represent it one of those film in which a character be deem to be brilliant and and we just have to swallow hard and accept it . but i will say this for carruthers represent she cute . and fascinate . no and really . here be some thought on her lack of talentnegative . 1 ) part of a director talent lie in deal with people . why be carruthers so phenomenally bad at get her crew to even take notice of her . so a to make it easy for everyone to wander off the set and get kill and i expect . ( 2 ) why be this one of the most unconvincing depiction of a movie set i have ever see . after all and it must have be film on a real movie set . how could they get it wrong . if rendall set be half a much of an under staffed shamble it a wonder he complete his film at all . ( 3 ) carruthers the fictional director have set herself the task of create a brand new 1980s horror flick . fat chance . i doubt it can be do these day . i suspect that rendall the actual and and more talented and director set himself the same task and realise it couldn not be do and and settle for ( sigh ) know parody instead . of course and it not enough of a parody to work a a parody . as soon a the cast and crew set foot in the isolated mansion the film just spend most of it time do badly what 1980s horror film do . well and less badly . ( 4 ) and yet and and yet . the film open with not a parody but an honest to goodness pastiche of 80 horror and starring ( this be too good to be true ) molly ringwald . this pastiche be much good than anything that follow . ( it a bad sign when you find yourself wish you be watch the movie within the movie and rather than the movie . ) yet it and too and be film in the late 1990s . perhaps it be still possible to make 1980s horror . you just have to drop the knowing parody stuff and mean it . ( 5 ) i would never once wonder what 1980s teen horror would be like if all the character have australian accent and but now i know . and strangely and i be glad i know . a need i never know i have have be fulfil .