Random thoughts on the film

I just picked this up at Blockbuster. I'm a sucker for independant and low-budget films so I commonly peruse differant movie stores for little treasures.

I really liked this one.
I found myself giggling a lot at the beginning, it all seemed incredibly cheesy, but as the movie progressed and the plot and characters developed, I really started to enjoy it.
I appreciate just how dark the director chose to go with the film.
There were a lot of parts that could have been held back for "taste" or "safety's sake" such as the rape/murder of the little girl, Tyrone being killed pointblank or the fact that after crying "I want to live!!", Scott did, in fact, die. I'm glad the director chose to not hold back.

There were a few things that bothered me, however.
First and foremost, the word "morbid" is misspelled on the synopsis on the back of the DVD ('moribd?). That was a big one.
Also, although Trudi's did she/didn't she suicide is obviously left for the viewers to decide, what DID happen to Sandy? There was a huge hole left with her character. You see her run and crumple in tears in the hallway but you never see her again. Did she run out of the school? Did Patrick shoot her? There was no "let the viewers decide" moment, her character just plain disappeared!
Lastly, the scene where Patrick pulls the girl aside and asks her if she believes in God before shooting her, I felt that was unnessecary and my reasons for that are not religious or moral, but because it was a line straight out of the witness reports from Columbine and I felt it was trying too hard to pull at the emotions some people felt from that event and took away from the "suicide game gone wrong" plot the entire rest of the movie had and pushed it more into a "lets shock em with a school shooting/mimic a real event". It seemed hokey.

Other than that, great job, good movie, welldone.