Alice in Murderland (2010)

It's Alice's birthday and her sorority girlfriends throw her a themed party. Everyone comes as their favorite, sexy character from Wonderland. The Jabberwocky wasn't invited and brings murder and mayhem to the girls' night out.

Director:

Dennis Devine

Writer:

Dennis Devine

Stars:

Malerie Grady, Marlene Mc'Cohen, Kelly Kula

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Malerie Grady	...	Alice
Marlene Mc'Cohen	...	Malory
Kelly Kula	...	Kat
Katie Locke O'Brien	...	Tiffany
Christopher Senger	...	Mr. White
Heath Butler	...	Donna
Jennifer Field	...	Dee
Kim Argetsinger	...	Sammantha
Elizabeth Lam Nguyen	...	Pima
Jennifer Kamstock	...	Aunt Lena
Montre Bible	...	Andrew
John Buco II	...	Matt
Katie Hotchkiss	...	Ann Lewis
Gabrielle Abitol	...	Charlene Glass
Zenova Braeden	...	Tilly

Storyline

It's Alice's birthday and her sorority girlfriends throw her a themed party. Everyone comes as their favorite, sexy character from Wonderland. The Jabberwocky wasn't invited and brings murder and mayhem to the girls' night out.

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Taglines:

Through the Looking Glass and Straight to Hell

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

The Alice in Wonderland Murders

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sterling Entertainment, Tom Cat Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

Throughout the movie characters make reference to the "Red Queen" when they are talking about the Queen Of Hearts. They also talk about the Jabberwocky as though it is a character in the Alice books rather than the subject of the nonsense poem that Alice reads in Through The Looking Glass.

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Quotes

Mr. White: Are you... threatening me?

User Reviews

No Redeeming Qualities

With an eye-catching title, Alice in Murderland does little (if anything) to keep its audience interested for the long haul. Written and directed by Dennis Devine (Demon Kiss), Alice in Murderland opens with the introduction of Alice's mother who is murdered while house-hunting.

Skip ahead to present day and we meet Alice, the cute and adorable Malerie Grady. Alice has a birthday coming up and her good-looking girlfriends decide to throw her a theme party – an Alice in Wonderland themed party. At the party, the guests will be given costumes that represent characters from the 1865 novel by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.

Lucky for us, all the costumes are sexy pieces of fabric that would look right at home on any stripper stage this side of Montreal. What should be even luckier for the male geek in all of us is the fact that no members of the opposite sex are invited to the party. So if you take out the male owner of the party establishment who comes dressed as the Mad Hatter, you are left with a wet dream of a bunch of party girls dressed as stripper Tweedle-Dumb and Dee, the Red Queen and others.

But uh-oh, the Jabberwocky is also running through the halls of the building, and he/she/it is intent on leaving a trail of dead rabbit-hole characters in his wake.

What sounds like an interesting premise in the mold of some of the better horror films of the early 80's, Alice in Murderland falls flat – very flat – in overall execution.

I can assert that the blame cannot be placed on the shoulders of the cast. Each of the cast that include names you have never heard of or are likely to hear again, do an admirable job in individual emoting. But the script hardly allows anyone to exploit their inner-actor. Instead, we get mundane situations and even a fight between two girls that is as unbelievable and poorly shot as any in recent memory.

Director Dennis Devine must either have hired all family and friends for the film or he found religion somewhere along the road to the distribution as there is no nudity in a movie that screams for some titty. Even a shower scene neglects to show anything below a neckline and therefore the movie fails to titillate while failing to do just about everything else.

So characters end up living or dying and there is a stupid subplot of a rift between the girls that allows for the stereotypical separation of the pack. But pleeeeease! You want us to believe that these girls are actually friends, that they have a party for Alice at the same residence to which her mother was killed years ago (that's right folks) and that a killer wearing a Jabberwocky outfit is sneaking up on them and chopping them all to bits. Sorry. But not in my fairy tale! All this made Alice in Murderland a terrible film experience. We give it a half star for not using CGI blood, but that's about it. There is no wonder, mystery and hardly any tense-ful danger in Murderland and you should stay clear of this dud.

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