
Chrissie's last week of high-school in Downers Grove, IL. is a paranoid trip through a small Midwestern town gripped by a 'curse' that claims the life of one high school senior every year. With only five days to graduation, Chrissie Swanson is beginning to wonder if she will be the next victim of the Curse of Downers Grove.... (Full plot summary below)
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Chrissie's last week of high-school in Downers Grove, IL. is a paranoid trip through a small Midwestern town gripped by a 'curse' that claims the life of one high school senior every year. With only five days to graduation, Chrissie Swanson is beginning to wonder if she will be the next victim of the Curse of Downers Grove.
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| Village VoiceSimon AbramsThe Curse of Downers Grove coasts on pulpy fumes thanks to its creators' effective emphasis on circumstantial peril over character-driven drama. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanThe Curse of Downers Grove is a movie that keeps you watching with its clever hook, without ever delivering the kind of hardcore satisfaction the best teen-themed shockers provide so well. |
| Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiThe Curse of Downers Grove seems to be jumping on that 1990s teen slasher bandwagon two decades too late. |
| We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoThe Curse Of Downers Grove is just another lackluster high-school-based thriller like the twenty billion that have come before it. |
| Dread CentralStaci Layne WilsonThe story moves right along, and the characters are fun. |
| RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiAlternately idiotic and boring horror thriller. |
| Paste MagazineBrent SimonThe film sets up this curse hanging over the heads of its central characters, but doesn't plumb it for lingering tension, at least as far as it relates to the actual story. |
| The A.V. ClubKatie RifePost-"The Canyons," this appears to be Ellis’ new, second-rate normal. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyAlthough it’s being marketed as a horror film, The Curse of Downers Grove turns out to be something else — a messy hash of teen soap opera, stalker thriller and whatnot whose titular, possibly supernatural aspect is basically irrelevant. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckCo-scripted by a slumming Bret Easton Ellis, The Curse of Downers Grove is all over the place in tone, never managing to decide what kind of film it wants to be. |