Teen Sorcery (1999) does have one thing going for it: the utter lack of imagination with which head cheerleader Mercedes wields the dark power of the “Devilstone.” Somehow, the vapid and petty uses to which she puts her magic in making lives vaguely uncomfortable around Pilgrimtown High School strikes me as terribly realistic. Still not a good movie, though.
#1 by Tom Meade on June 26, 2008 - 12:34 am
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There sure were a hell of a lot of witches in the late 90s.
#2 by MatthewF on June 26, 2008 - 2:59 am
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You bet. Now I’ve never set foot in an American Highschool, but to my knowledge they’re a hot bed of magic.
Also, and I have to ask, why did US tv and film writers hate their highschool days so much? Why is it always poratrayed as hell on earth (in both fantasy and ‘realistic’ stuff)? Can it be that bad?
#3 by Nathan Shumate on June 26, 2008 - 6:28 am
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I think it’s because high school is everyone’s first taste of “adult” politicking.
#4 by MatthewF on June 26, 2008 - 7:39 am
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Maybe it’s bacause pretty much everyone in America went to the same highschool, the one that appears in Buffy and 901210, and god knows what else. Must be crowded. Also, lots of competition in the carpark with all the Porsches and what-not.
#5 by KeithA on June 26, 2008 - 8:29 am
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And why are cheerleaders always bitchy and petty and vindictive? Just about all of them I’ve known have been sweet and friendly. But then, I went to a high school where the jocks were all super-nice All-American hero types who helped old ladies cross the street and rescued puppies, while us punks and freaks were, quite frankly, mostly a bunch of self-absorbed assholes.
#6 by hman on June 26, 2008 - 9:17 am
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Most of the cheerleaders that were my age were smart, intelligent young women. My school had a “tradition” that no one outside of the Varsity football team could set foot in the Varsity locker room, and a dude from the swim got his arm broken in a struggle after some members of the football time tried to forcibly remove him from there. But then, the big nerd-who-thought-he-was-Asian (me) was also the Senior Class President, so what does that say about my school?
#7 by MatthewF on June 26, 2008 - 10:02 am
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All I know is sixteen year old girls didn’t lool like THAT when I was sixteen. I suppose because, you know, they weren’t 22 year old models. I think it gives 14 year old boys extremely unrealistic expectations.
#8 by lyzard on June 26, 2008 - 2:10 pm
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While I, of course, come from a primitive backwater that clings to the notion that girls in short skirts have no particular role to play in the educational system. And that nor, for that matter, does sport.
I know, I know – savages.
#9 by KeithA on June 26, 2008 - 2:42 pm
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So what do y’all do for Homecoming???
#10 by Nathan Shumate on June 26, 2008 - 2:50 pm
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Maybe they do what I did…
…sat at home alone, watching William Katt in House.
#11 by Braineater on June 28, 2008 - 12:47 pm
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Just out of curiosity, is Victoria Muspratt another pseudonym for David DeCoteau?
And on the subject of names, I just want to point out that “Lexa Doig” is second only to “Barbalescu” as a great name for a puppy.
#12 by Nathan Shumate on June 28, 2008 - 2:21 pm
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I doubt it. Muspratt’s IMDb listing doesn’t really intersect with DeCoteau’s. Also, there are no gratuitous scenes with high school boys in their tighty-whities.
#13 by Ed on June 29, 2008 - 4:43 pm
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Funnily enough, Lexa Doig is just on the edge of being associated with Trek, given that she was on the Roddenberry inspired Andromeda.
#14 by El Santo on July 2, 2008 - 1:07 pm
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“So what do y’all do for Homecoming???”
I can’t answer for her, obviously, but I played my first show with my first band on the night of my senior-year homecoming dance.
#15 by MatthewF on July 3, 2008 - 4:16 am
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Well having been voted king and queen of the prom, my date turned out to have telekentic powers and went ahead and slaughtered everyone in the room, which all in all ruined my evening.
#16 by Nathan Shumate on July 3, 2008 - 6:26 am
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Wait — Matthew, you went with that PLAIN chick?
#17 by MatthewF on July 3, 2008 - 10:10 am
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Yeah, y’know, it was a joke, with the pigs blood and all, but then she seemed kinda nice and what can I say? I guess she got Carrie-d away…
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