In the midst of her turmoil, a pair of deranged serial killers begin leaving bored young woman in a sleepy community called Spearfish photos of their mutilated victims. Are they real or staged? The culprit is either a serial killer or some creep with a sick sense of humour.
2 November 1981, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
27 July 1984, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
28 May 1983, Brighton, England, UK
23 April 1977, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
20 March 1984, Milford, Connecticut, USA
10 June 1981, Adelaide, Australia
5 April 1952, Portland, Oregon, USA
20 June 1996, Lafayette, Indiana, USA
14 August 1990, Fresno, California, USA
November 17, 2016
Gory, violent and exceptionally inane, The Girl in the Photographs is not completely without its terror-inducing moments, but there isn't enough of its redeeming features to sustain it.March 31, 2016
A slasher film with a sardonic twist, "The Girl in the Photographs" doesn't quite revive an etiolated genre, but it does have its moments.March 31, 2016
"The Girl in the Photographs" is an unfortunate example of the expanse that can open between a movie's ambitions and its execution.April 06, 2016
Throats are slashed, guts are spilled, blood spurts. Don't say I didn't warn you.March 31, 2016
The makers of the grim, film-school-sloppy horror-thriller The Girl in the Photographs never flesh out their provocative thesis: that photography is a predatory act that allows photographers to control their subjects.April 01, 2016
It feels like a product, shaped to the point of anonymity.March 31, 2016
In a sense, it's a horror picture for the selfie generation - fitting, as the narrative is utterly vapid and shallow.April 01, 2016
Whether the film actually develops its compelling premise is arguable, but the attempt is entertaining and admirably ambitious.April 01, 2016
Good looks can't save the girls in the photographs or THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS.March 31, 2016
No snowballing acts of obsession to help increase discomfort. It's all empty and vague, and worst of all, boring. Slasher cinema shouldn't induce a coma.April 01, 2016
Rote and borderline reprehensible ...October 04, 2015
A slasher movie filled with smug and self-absorbed characters who are not nearly as clever as they obviously assume they are.