Rating: 
Summary: Good, but not Great
Review: I had wanted to see this movie ever since I saw the commericals for it on TV. Something has always fascinated me about beautiful popular people against the less beautfiful unpopular people. After I finally saw this movie last summer, I was a little disapointed. The movie was pretty good, Susan Ward's character Brittany was one of the best villians I have ever seen in a movie. But the rest of the cast really weren't all that great, all they were, were these beautiful people with not a whole lot of talent. The story line was pretty creative, it was about a girl named Adrien (Lori Heuring) who was just released from a mental hospital to work as a housekeeper at a country club/resort type place, where young, beautiful college kids lay around in the sun, play tennis, etc. She meets Brittany Hodges (Susan Ward), or actually more like saves her, when Brittany tries to fake like she drowned. So Adrien and Brittany become friends, and some strange things happen at the club. One of Brittany's so-called "friends" warns Adrien to go away, and to leave the huge mystery that happened a year ago alone, but Adrien knows something's up. Brittany's games are a little too much to handle sometimes. And after learning about Adrien's "history" she seduces Adrien's therapist while wearing Adrien's dress, then kills the therapist at a party later, and then Adrien goes to jail because they think she was the one who had sex with him, and killed him. The movie was kind of dull, with some boring twists here and there, some parts were suspenseful, all in all, it was pretty good, rent it for yourself sometime.
Rating: 
Summary: funny commentary
Review: This wasn't the 'best' of the worst teen movies, but it was ok, I thought Susan Ward (B or Brit or BritNay-who plays the head of the In Crowd) did a really cool job with the character.
Lori Heuring (psycho girl Adrien) was kind of boring at times, but overall the movie was ok for what it attempted to create --- a suspense/thriller. But I agree with another reviewer, that the DVD commentary (yes I actually watched this) was sooooo funny. That was probably the funniest and best commentary I've seen since "The Sweetest Thing" with Christina Applegate and Cameron Diaz. If you don't even watch the movie, at least what the commentary...it was better than the movie itself.
Rating: 
Summary: what horrific garbage!
Review: while i was watching this movie i thought to myself, "am i going to die? have i gone to horrible movie hell?" you see i was trapped in a theater. it's like being tortured by some horrible nightmare but you can't leave cause B actors are pretending they can act just because they're fat. the in crowd gives you that feeling like when it's grossly bright outside and it's a sunday afternoon and you're in a car and you've been sitting for 6 hours and you feel sweaty and there'a a football game playing on the am radio and you want to stop existing. in conclusion, this movie turns me into melting snow. i've written a few reviews here and there and no one seems to find them helpful. but i don't care! i'm not trying to be helpful. i'm just being odd.
Rating:
Summary: Amazing thriller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Mary Lambert has definitely mastered the art of making great, on-the-edge-of-your-seat, suspense. The movie begins with a trip to the loony bin and ends with a thrill that will keep your heart racing. Susan Ward (best known for her heroin role on the short-lived soap opera, Sunset Beach) plays the gorgeous maniacal murderess Brittany Foster, the villain in this modern teen-version of a Hitchcock duplicate, but you can't help rooting for her through the whole movie. Lori Heuring plays Adrien Williams, the innocent victim who is lured into Brittany's homicidal game of friendship. Adrien is enticed by Brittany's stunning lifestyle & drawn in by gifts and surroundings she's never had. But when fun and games turn in to manipulation & mistrust. Adrien decides to get out before her brief, attractive lifestyle becomes a dangerous blood game. Feeling betrayed by Adrien, Brittany decides to take matters into her own vicious, little hands by making sure Adrien is put back into a mental hospital. The pulsating games begin as Adrien escapes from her confinement and joins with a local member of the crowd, Bobby (Nathan Bexton), to end Brittany's reign as the Queen of "Country Club Slaughter." Cat fighting, chasing, drowning, skull bashing, slicing and dicing all lead up to the mind-blowing shock finale. This movie explores and tampers with everyone's pulse with its suspenseful, tensified plot. The In Crowd could have well been this year's Scream had it been promoted the way it should've been. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes to sit back and be entertained by a good modern day thriller. *****5 stars*****
Rating:
Summary: what horrific garbage!
Review: while i was watching this movie i thought to myself, "am i going to die? have i gone to horrible movie hell?" you see i was trapped in a theater. it's like being tortured by some horrible nightmare but you can't leave cause B actors are pretending they can act just because they're fat. the in crowd gives you that feeling like when it's grossly bright outside and it's a sunday afternoon and you're in a car and you've been sitting for 6 hours and you feel sweaty and there'a a football game playing on the am radio and you want to stop existing. in conclusion, this movie turns me into melting snow. i've written a few reviews here and there and no one seems to find them helpful. but i don't care! i'm not trying to be helpful. i'm just being odd.
Rating: 
Summary: The In Crowd
Review: To tell the absolute truth, I expected much more from this teen movie. I like those teen slasher movies like SCREAM and I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, but this one was too weird and bizarre for my tastes. It was very well photographed and sometimes well directed, but the script and actors are very lame and really don't deliver anything special. It's the story of a former mental patient, Adrien, who is sent to work at a hip country club. She is soon involved in a wicked friendship with the sexy Brittany, who sees the image of someone else in Adrien, and therefore begins to act as her loyal companion. Through investigation and patience, Adrien finds that Brittany is nothing but an evil murderress. Like I said, the weak script and lack of talent in the actors destroy this would-be-good thriller. It's often suspenseful and sometimes scary, but usually it's quite boring and overly sexual to boot.
Rating:
Summary: Yuck
Review: I was home, bored, and had nothing to do one day so I clicked on the TV for background noise and this was on. Worst movie I have ever seen. Period. The story is totally implausible, there are many plot holes, the acting is poor. Last time I ever waste an hour on a teen movie.
Rating: 
Summary: wait for it to be on network TV
Review: This is just ad retreaded stuff but if you don't have cable and it's on -- why not? Basically, poor blonde Adrien gets a summer job at a country club for rich kids. There she befriends rich brunette Brittany, who takes her under her wing and introduces her to rich in crowd. Despite her youth, beauty and riches, Brittany has problems. Her older sister emptied out her trust fund and ran off two years ago, sending the occasional postcard. Things don't add up as people get hurt and/or die all over the place. Adrien, supersleuth/country club waitress that she is, decides to solve the mystery and confront the killer ALL ALONE, as surely this violent criminal won't do anything to her when there are NO witnesses around!! It's good for a laugh and there are hot guys and girls in it to please everyone. There is also a rather horrific drowning involved. That scene sort of stays with you.
Rating:
Summary: Awful...ly funny!
Review: This isn't Hitchcock, but it amusing and engaging in its own trashy way. Fairly bad and predictable story, decent acting, lots of eye candy. I wished some background characters were a bigger part of the plot, I thought the ending was too long, and so on, but this is good fluffy filmmaking so my criticisms don't overcome my enjoyment of the movie. And yes, the commentary track with Lori Huering and Susan Ward is hilarious - it's completely self-depreciating and humble, with behind the scenes insightfulness to boot, and ranks up there with the DVD commentaries to Kevin Smith's movies. One star off for the thin "Bonus Features" section (only three deleted scenes? no trailer?) but still worth your money if you like this kind of flick.
Rating:
Summary: A must-see for morons
Review: Despite being rated PG-13 in the US, this is R16 in NZ for some daft reason. Maybe NZ's censors thought viewers under 16 risked dying of boredom if they watched this. Unfortunately even those over 16 will be bored too.
Director Mary Lambert, best known for PET SEMATARY and its lame sequel strikes out again with this lousy waste of celluloid which could be described as [Insert title of any low grade teen slasher] crossed with [Insert title of any lousy Aaron Spelling soap]. This time around the hijinks are set at a Country Club catering to the rich and vacant, populated by attractive women with personality minus and permanent PMS, and dumb guys with their brains located somewhere in their swimming trunks. Of course, one of them is a former mental patient so it doesn't take a genius to guess what happens next. [play PSYCHO theme]
TH IN CROWD did have the potential to be an enjoyably trashy movie, but it severely misses the mark. There's only one lousy murder in the first 20 minutes and given the sizable cast of moronic characters, this basically keeps the mayhem quotient low. Dreadful in all departments. It doesn't even rate high enough for me to include some sarcasm and sexual references. Avoid it.
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