All The Boys Love Mandy Lane

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is a 2006 American independent horror film directed by Jonathan Levine, and starring Amber Heard and Anson Mount. The plot centers on a group of teenagers who invite a popular but shy outsider, Mandy, to spend the weekend at a secluded ranch house, and are targeted by a stalker who is after her.
Originally completed in 2006, the film premiered at a number of film festivals throughout 2006 and 2007. Notable premieres include Toronto Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, South by Southwest Film Festival, and London FrightFest Film Festival. It received a theatrical release in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2008. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane received extremely divided reviews from critics, with some dismissing the film as "bogus and compromised", and others praising its "grindhouse" aesthetic and likening its cinematography to the early work of Terrence Malick.
The film went unreleased in the United States after being sold in 2006 by The Weinstein Company to Senator Entertainment, who went out of business shortly after purchasing the rights to the film. On March 8, 2013, it was announced that The Weinstein Company had re-acquired the rights to theatrically release the film in the United States. It is scheduled to be available through video on demand in September 2013, and is due for a limited release October 6, 2013, under Weinstein's subsidiary label Dimension Films.


The elements which are most prominent in the film are deception, drug and alcohol abuse, murder, extreme violence, darkness, madness and teenage lust. The use of the mise-en-scene of the guns, knives, drugs, alcohol bottles, dark areas, natural lighting and dead bodies, all help to establish the genre type. The use of the location is helpful in establishing the genre of the film by creating an area which is isolated and cut off from the world. The use of phones also helps to portray this idea of isolation which is so key to the plot; not only does it show the isolation of the area but it also reflects on the isolation of the characters from themselves. An example of this is the killer, who is portrayed as a damaged skinny teenage boy, who after a tragic accident where a boy jumps off a roof and drowns, which makes the boy a target for abuse from his fellow school mates, which is what we are lead to believe is what made him a killer.

This follows the conventions of horror films as normally the result of abandonment and ridicule from peers, such as Jason from Friday the 13^th.

The costumes of the characters are typical of a group of teenagers. They all dress casually, except for one girl who is dressed to allure the other characters. The main female protagonist is Mandy Lane, who is portrayed as angelic and pure, which is why she is lusted after by her other co-stars.

The promotional poster for the film is an effective form of advertisement as it portrays the main protagonist. It also gives a sense of enigma as we don’t know who the killer is or how far he is willing to go to be with Mandy Lane. The colour scheme is effective in the sense it portrays the type of genre, and is effective as it stands out.