Monday 23 March 2009

LUNCHTIME WATCHALONG - HappySlapper (RTE Storyland)

Just realised... there aren't that many days left till voting ends on RTE STORYLAND -- so here's a double lunchtime watchalong to catch up.




HAPPY SLAPPER

"Your school years are the best years of your life."
Whoever said that must have been hit a few too many times on the head. With a hammer... Set in a North Dublin secondary school, during a final year that is filled with betrayal, manipulation, desperation & violence, HAPPYSLAPPER is a mystery thriller that centres on the disappearance of popular girl MADDY, and the dark secrets that are revealed when two of her friends start investigating what has happened to her and why... In episode 1 shy outsider Emily has no idea what she's getting herself involved in when she's invited to a 'secret party' held by tough girl Rachel in the school, after dark...

EPISODE 1 - DIRECTOR'S CUT




"HAPPYSLAPPER" RTE STORYLAND PAGE AND VOTING HERE

FULL LIST OF "HAPPYSLAPPER" LINKS HERE:-
http://storygas.blogspot.com/2009/03/rte-storyland-contender-happyslapper.html


What do you think?
Sum it up in 3 words, or scores out of 10...
See COMMENTS below

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

the scripts rubbish, the actings laughable and the filming's piss poor...

other than that, quite good.

Sarah said...

I guess the real target audience for this is teens/schoolkids. I'm outside that demograph but I can see what they're getting at. For me the real problem with this is that I felt there was nothing new here, perhaps the script has a dark underbelly of youth experience in it's future, but based on this offering i don't think I'd be coming back. They could have done with a lot more light and better camera work, the script is a bit repetitive, the casts not that bad, it's just sloppy overall. I watched it on the Storyland site. It's too long, (which most of them are)

Anonymous said...

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when RTE Storyland received this...