{"id":399,"date":"2014-07-02T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:48:59","slug":"crush-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Crush-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crush-2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Malik Bader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Lucas Till<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #87<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/70263209.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1300\" src=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/70263209-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70263209\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/70263209-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/70263209.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed July 2, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crush (2013) tells a story told since almost the beginning of cinematic history: that of the stalker.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a teen stalker film similar to Swimfan (2002) and The Roommate (2011), which I admit I&#8217;ve seen and enjoyed as guilty pleasures.<\/p>\n<p>A teen soccer jock injures his knee and decides to break up with his girlfriend to focus on rehab. From there, someone begins stalking him and leaving secret admirer notes.<\/p>\n<p>Several red herrings ensue, and the final thirty minutes contain a twist that, unfortunately, if you bother to look at the cover art on the DVD, reveals the stalker.<\/p>\n<p>This particular genre is a guilty pleasure of mine, so it&#8217;s tough to be completely objective.<\/p>\n<p>On the surface, Crush is a terrible movie- it is by the numbers with no character development, but just plain old fun.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it is loosely a remake of the Alicia Silverstone film from the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, the appeal (good or bad) is that the filmmakers played this film seriously instead of fessing up to a poor script and playing it for laughs.<\/p>\n<p>The acting is awful, the teen outcasts look like they could easily be the popular kids and were made up to appear nerdy, and the film has a Hallmark television movie-of-the-week badness.<\/p>\n<p>But in a goofy, trashy way, I enjoyed Crush (2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crush-2013 Director Malik Bader Starring Lucas Till Scott&#8217;s Review #87 Reviewed July 2, 2014 Grade: C- Crush (2013) tells a story told since almost the beginning of cinematic history: that of the stalker. It&#8217;s a teen stalker film similar to Swimfan (2002) and The Roommate (2011), which I admit I&#8217;ve seen and enjoyed as guilty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crush-2013<\/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":[4,13,204],"tags":[8304,4130,3198,11928,4129,4128,12717,4131],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-films","category-horror-films","category-thrillers","tag-caitriona-balfe","tag-crystal-reed","tag-holt-mccallany","tag-leigh-whannell","tag-lucas-till","tag-malik-bader","tag-reid-ewing","tag-sarah-bolger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24594,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/24594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}