Wasted on the Young (2010)
There is almost nothing in this world I find scarier than teenagers. Even worse? Teenagers with an endless supply of money who answer to nobody but themselves. As someone who never particularly identified with or got along with people of my own age between the years of 13 and 19, I've always found there is something particularly terrifying about the way most teenagers exist now: running around with a constant connection to the entire world but somehow, still having no real concept of consequence or any semblance of life skills. There have been dozens of movies that touch on this topic, but I haven't quite been so unsettled by a film as I was by Ben C. Lucas's Wasted on the Young.
Didn't hate teenagers before? You may when this movie is over...
The Story: Zack (Alex Russell) and Darren (Oliver Ackland) are stepbrothers who attend the same elite private school. Zack is a gorgeous swimmer who is insanely popular because he's a dick and throws boozy drug-fueled parties every weekend, and Darren is a gorgeous swimmer who isn't popular because he's smart and likes computers and nerdy shit like that. When kind and beautiful Xandrie (Adelaide Clemens) expresses interest in Darren over Zack, Zack won't be having any of that nonsense, so he drugs her, and then gang rapes her with buddies at a party. And when Xandrie has the nerve to stand up to him, he turns the whole school against her via social media, culminating in a devastating final act in which Darren uses his brains to take revenge against his idiot stepbrother and all his cronies' brawn.
"You're telling me you feel nothing? No regret? I suppose you can because you're not even a real person. You're just an idea. You're a concept of what boys want to fuck."


Revenge Honey Rating: 4 douche parties out of 5
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