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A Comedy Horror Film That Middle School Girls Will Love
This review and my ratings are based on an understanding the intended audience is primarily pre-teen and teenage girls. The three lead guys are boyband attractive and spend a lot of time with their clothes off -- in a modest, G-rated sort of way. The preamble, where the three guys meet, is way too long and doesn't blend well with the haunted house plot. But I give the script high marks for having a logical explanation for what happens. Too often writers pass these old dark house dramas off to unexplained supernatural resolutions, which is no fun for the audience. The real mystery, though, is the Boys Love drama overtones mixed in with so much homophobia. Yan Siang's character's name "Little Princess" is particularly offensive. But, of course, the BL aspect turns out to be a twist ending, in that it's not been one at all. The characters are wildly uneven, but that's consistent with comic haunted house dramas like the "Goosebumps" series and going way back to classic horror-comedies like Abbott & Costello's "Hold that Ghost" or Don Knott's "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken." As such, I have to give the three lead guys top marks for making the best out of such erratic writing. What's more remarkable is the characters are supposed to be 16-22 and all of the leads were over 26 when this was filmed. Maybe the fountain of youth was the secret in that hot spring?
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