Fingerprints (2006)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Harry Basil

Writers:

Brian Cleveland (writer)
Jason Cleveland (writer)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Even the dead leave them.

Plot:

Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town paralyzed.

Plot Keywords:

Railroad Crossing | Urban Legend | School Bus | Young Girl | Dead Children

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Leah Pipes	...	Melanie
Kristin Cavallari	...	Crystal
Josh Henderson	...	Penn
Andrew Lawrence	...	Mitch
Lou Diamond Phillips	...	Doug
Sally Kirkland	...	Mary
Geoffrey Lewis	...	Keeler
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Luka Apt	...	Luke
Justine Basil	...	Emily
Morgan Brown	...	Reynolds
J.R. Cooke	...	Cop #1
Darryl Cox	...	Edward
Dylan Cox	...	Shawn
Payton Dunham	...	Richard
Megan Duplan	...	Ghost
Brandon H. Fields	...	Paramedic
Kelsey Frederickson	...	Jessica
Ginger Gilmartin	...	Bethany
Ben Hall	...	Mr. Pearl
Sydnee Harlan	...	Julie
Glen Jensen	...	Kowalski
Ty Oliver	...	Chuck
Gracie Veneklasen	...	Little Mary
Ashley Wyatt	...	Carolyn

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language, some sexuality and drug/alcohol content - all involving teens.

Runtime:

Greece:95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:MA (2008) | Australia:MA | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Guthrie, Oklahoma, USA

Company:

Brothers Cleveland Productions

Trivia:

Won "Best Feature" at the New York City Horror Film Festival.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Melanie receives the text message from her sister you can see the cursor blinking, showing that she is actually writing the text message, not receiving it.

Quotes:

Bethany: I'm only going to ask you once and you'd better be honest. Are you on drugs again?

Soundtrack:

You Can't Be

Ghost story crossed with a slasher film

Lou D. Phillip stars as a teacher who lives in a small town haunted by the memory of the sudden loss of a busload of children years before. A young woman (Leah Pipes) returns from rehab to her family home, only to encounter the ghost of a little girl who slowly leads her to the lost children and the reason for their disappearance. That part of the movie is OK, and follows modern ghost movie traditions. But some bright bulb apparently decided to also make this a slasher film, with big boobs on display and lots of blood-letting for the JASON and FREDDY crowd. Th slasher segments all tie into the missing children plot, but they were absolutely unnecessary and damn near ruined the movie. We know who the masked killer is way too early, too. Ignore the cheesy slasher scenes, some of which look like they were filmed and inserted as an afterthought, and focus on the ghost plot. You will be rewarded. The ending is a dilly.