All the Boys Love Mandy Lane ~ Film Review
Mere minutes into the 2006 horror film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, it’s clear all the boys really do love Mandy Lane. They love her so much they jump off roofs to get her attention. And who can blame them? Amber Heard, the actress playing Mandy Lane, is smoking hot. More famous today for her role in The Rum Diary and real-life romance with co-star Johnny Depp, I love Heard because she is 406. Remember 406? She was Jesse Eisenberg’s hot neighbor in Zombieland. The point is, I get it. She’s hot and an apparent virgin, so everyone wants Mandy Lane. And that’s basically the premise of this film. Mandy Lane and several of her fellow high schoolers head to a ranch for the weekend. They engage in drinking, snorting pretty much anything, having sex, and other debauchery. And the entire time, the boys try to woo Mandy Lane while someone kills each of the girls and boys off one by one.
Let me be clear in that this film is getting one point for Amber Heard being so hot. She plays the quiet, shy, hot girl pretty damn well and she engages the audience mildly. I gave it another point for its plotline and the potential it had. The concept of people killing for love isn’t new but it hasn’t been seen much in horror, that I can remember. Sure, people kill for revenge of loved ones all the time. But not often do they kill just to impress someone or because they love someone so much…
