The only clues that Sarah has to her old friend's whereabouts are a journal, and a cryptic video message sent by Jillian just before she disappeared. Shortly after revealing to Sarah that she is searching for a man online to take her someplace new and exciting, Jillian vanishes without a trace. Both girls long to escape their small town for something more exciting, though it's Jillian who acts first. Yet despite their differences, Sarah and Jillian have been best friends for as far back as either can recall. Sarah (Kendrick) is a straight-A student and popular athlete, and Jillian (Tania Raymonde) is the girl with the reputation that every parent fears most. Enjoy it for what it is.A teenage girl sets out in search of her missing best friend, a mischief-making flirt who had been recklessly meeting men online, in this thriller featuring Twilight star Anna Kendrick. A variety of locations are used in the movie, including the homes of the girls and their friends, the local library and a creepy graveyard, creating a sense of fear that wherever they are in the town, they’re not safe and are being watched.ĮLSEWHERE is a well-made thriller but don’t expect too much from it storywise. The co-stars who make up the high school and graduate friends of Sarah and Jillian also further enforces teenage issues between the different sexes, with the script injecting some fantastic putdowns too. The script is decent enough and provides many witty banter between Jillian and her cohorts. This is the true horror of the tale, the fact that you never know who’s on the other side of the computer screen and what they’re capable of. You can tell the crew had fun making this movie, and its content subject is quite relevant in today’s society where youngsters are putting themselves on display to strangers on the internet, believing it to be safe. In terms of bloody horror, there’s hardly any in the movie, instead relying on some very well executed jump scares, that made me leap out my chair, flashbacks and a game of cat and mouse between Sarah and the mysterious Mr X. Unfortunately, the identity of Mr X is guessable early on in the movie but that doesn’t hinder the enjoyment of a well-made thriller, even if it’s not a groundbreaking one. Both of these actors give strong performances, as well as Anna Kendrick as a quiet but confident girl who must summon all her inner strength to find her friend. Sarah’s concern is validated when Jillian goes missing, but with the local police unwilling to cooperate to locate a well-known runaway, Sarah is left to find her friend by herself.ĮLSEWHERE almost acts as a LOST reunion, as actors Tania Raymonde who starred as Alex Rousseau and Jon Gries who played Ben Linus’ father Roger in the J.J. Sarah’s concern about her friend grows when she talks about a Mr X she met online, one of a string of admirers on a flirty social network in which Jillian has posted sexy anonymous photographs of her body for men to ogle. Though Jillian’s homelife is significantly worse, Sarah too feels neglected at home. Her best friend Sarah (Anna Kendrick) lives in a comfortable home but her mother’s never around, working away or staying at the office til late at night. Instead, ELSEWHERE is a teen horror thriller that sees Tania Raymonde star as Jillian, a flirtatious rough and ready teen who dreams of leaving her trailer home she shares with her slobbish mother, and venturing away to pastures new, somewhere she can start a new life with prospects. Starring: Anna Kendrick, Chuck Carter, Jon Gries, Olivia Dawn York, Paul Wesley, Tania RaymondeĮLSEWHERE (2009) Directed and co-written by Nathan HopeĪfter anonymously flirting with men online, teenager Jillian disappears and only her best friend Sarah has the caring nature and courage to find her.ĭespite the photo of Anna Kendrick wielding a gun and looking all cyber kick-ass on the DVD cover, this is no cyber thriller and definitely does not include a gun-toting character.
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