{"id":139,"date":"2014-06-18T03:49:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:08:02","slug":"all-the-boys-love-mandy-lane-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"All the Boys Love Mandy Lane-2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All the Boys Love Mandy Lane-2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Jonathan Levine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Amber Heard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #38<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70074100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1127\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70074100-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70074100\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70074100-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70074100.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 18, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is an interesting, experimental horror-meets-art film from 2006.<\/p>\n<p>On the surface, it appears to be a by-the-numbers slasher throwback involving a group of teens spending a boozy weekend on a Texas farm, of course, in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>They are systematically killed one by one.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds standard, but there are some moody, artistic, beautiful scenes mixed in, hence the horror\/arthouse label.<\/p>\n<p>There is a certain &#8220;Texas Chainsaw Massacre&#8221; charm to it as well.<\/p>\n<p>The story, however, makes little sense, and the protagonist&#8217;s motivations are confusing and never explained; while adventurous in parts, the film ultimately fails due to its inconsistencies.<\/p>\n<p>The characters are also rather unlikable, perhaps intentionally so, as these are the characters the audience enjoys seeing hacked to bits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the Boys Love Mandy Lane-2006 Director Jonathan Levine Starring Amber Heard Scott&#8217;s Review #38 Reviewed June 18, 2014 Grade: B- All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is an interesting, experimental horror-meets-art film from 2006. On the surface, it appears to be a by-the-numbers slasher throwback involving a group of teens spending a boozy weekend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All the Boys Love Mandy Lane-2006<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,13,310],"tags":[2551,12079,4500,2552,5748,12077,12078],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2006-films","category-horror-films","category-slasher-films","tag-amber-heard","tag-anson-mount","tag-brooke-bloom","tag-jonathan-levine","tag-luke-grimes","tag-michael-welch","tag-whitney-able"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23788,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/23788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}