The Girl in the Photographs (2015)

A bored young woman in a sleepy community called Spearfish starts receiving photographs of brutally murdered young women. Are they real or staged? The culprit is either a serial killer or some creep with a sick sense of humour.

Director:

Nick Simon

Writers:

Oz Perkins, Robert Morast

Stars:

Kal Penn, Claudia Lee, Kenny Wormald

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kal Penn	...	Peter Hemmings
Claudia Lee	...	Colleen
Kenny Wormald	...	Chris
Toby Hemingway	...	Ben
Luke Baines	...	Tom
Miranda Rae Mayo	...	Rose
Katharine Isabelle	...	Janet
Mitch Pileggi	...	Sheriff Porter
Toby Levins	...	Deputy Daniels
Christy Carlson Romano	...	Brittany
Oliver Seitz	...	Trip
Autumn Kendrick	...	Victoria
Corey Schmitt	...	Gerry
Eva Bourne	...	Jill
Kathryn Kirkpatrick	...	Denise

Storyline

A bored young woman in a sleepy community called Spearfish starts receiving photographs of brutally murdered young women. Are they real or staged? The culprit is either a serial killer or some creep with a sick sense of humour.

---

Plot Keywords:

homage | horror cliche | hot | sex scene | romantic | 

---

Genres:

Crime | Horror | Thriller

---

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody violence, sexuality/nudity, language throughout and some drug use

Details

Official Sites:

official site

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 April 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

Девушка на фотографиях

Filming Locations:

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Alghanim Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The name of the character Peter Hemmings is a reference to actor David Hemmings and his role in the similarly-themed film Blow-Up (1966).

---

Quotes

Colleen: Somebody *followed* me here... so he could put that picture at a place where I would find it.
Sheriff Porter: And we're gonna look into that.

---

Crazy Credits

Before the credits, there is a title card that reads, "For Wes", dedicating the film to its deceased executive producer Wes Craven.

---

Connections

References Blow-Up (1966)

---

Soundtracks

Diner Magic
Written by Jay Weigel
Performed by Jay Weigel
Courtesy of Carondelet Music Group, LLC

User Reviews

Reviews are a little bit harsh...

Though I would not call this a masterpiece, I did find it interesting on the comical side. I know this is a horror movie, but I really could not resist the villains. You have to give it to them, they were a very comic duo. I have to tend to believe that they were the ones who had the true lead in this thing.

Unfortunately, besides that fact, the characters as always in horror movies tend to be painted as being particularly stupid -; especially the blonds. This movie did not fail to deliver on that side. They always tend to make ridiculous decisions. Obviously, I could enumerate the nonsensical actions that many of the actors had (except probably the couple in the bed) but that would make no sense.

I'm not really sure why the police kept staying in denial when it was obvious that somebody was killing people. In the real world, there would have been an investigation and on that side, I feel this was a huge miss by the movie. Nobody would make such realistic pictures of a crime without getting hooked by authorities and to my mind, being fund myself of fashion photography, I'm not sure I've ever seen something like that pass in reality. In that case, how did they miss that part in the movie?

I would recommend this for a quick laugh but nothing really too extraordinary to see there. I did give it a score slightly above the average review scores because I did not find it THAT bad and it was kind of enjoyable at the end because of the some of the very funny or borderline annoying characters in the movie.