Student Body Review: Quirky Horror Film Starts Strong But Can’t Finish

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Student Body has its moments, but is ultimately a missable horror movie. The performances are what one might expect from a young cast and writer-director Lee Ann Kurr (Lindsey Luff: Remind Me) does little to subvert the genre. The antagonist is certainly menacing, but there are almost no jump scares and the scares that do populate the movie are nothing to write home about. While parts of Student Body are both socially contemporary and well-executed, it's the rest of the movie that doesn’t hold up its end of the bargain.

When Jane Shipley (Montse Hernandez) is the only one in her class to pass Mr. Aunspach’s (Christian Caramago) nearly impossible test, her classmate & childhood friend Merrit Sinclair (Cheyenne Hayes), comes up with a way to get the rest of the class a retake. Merrit isn’t alone either, soccer star Nadia Parker (Harley Quinn Smith) has had enough of the guys at school. Not only is Nadia’s playing career at stake due to her grade on Mr. Aunspach’s test, but the school mascot Brody (Ty Trumbo), makes it a point to shove her around and call her inappropriate names after matches. Blindly taking one for the team, Jane approaches Mr. Aunspach and submits her case for the retake. His response borders on violence, prompting Jane and Merrit to approach the principal and he is as arrogant as he is unhelpful. That is, until Merrit convinces him that firing Mr. Aunspach is the only way to keep her family’s money coming into the prestigious and pricey school. In the immediate aftermath of the teacher's dismissal, Jane and all her friends are locked inside the school with a sledgehammer-wielding mascot bent on murder. Is it the bully who regularly dawns the mascot? The scorned teacher? Or the principal being