This uncanny story of preppy drug dealers has a touch of Heathers and a bit of Bret Easton Ellis, and an intriguing take on what high school is really likeTayarisha Poe, like her partial namesake, has a gift for the uncanny.
She is the photographer and film-maker behind this feature debut, which began as an online multimedia project and was developed as a conventional movie through the Sundance screenwriters and directors labs.
What has emerged is an intriguing, opaque, tonally elusive story that seems weirdly unfinished.
It is set in a privileged high school – a world of ivy-covered stone buildings and shady quadrangles where rich kids are separated into malign and mutually hostile cliques.
It has a touch of Donna Tartt and Bret Easton Ellis, a hint of Heathers and a bit of the elegant, disdainful satire of Dear White People.Somehow, though, it is odder, more stylised and contrived,
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