
Bad Girl
2016
Sara
West and Samara Weaving film clips (collages
below)
West
Weaving
Johnny's comments:
Bad Girl is a teen thriller where troubled young
girl Amy (Sara West) is forced to uproot to the
country by her adopted parents Michelle and Peter
(Felicity Price and Ben Winspear) and she is not
too happy about it. They meet the neighbours, who
suggest that Amy meets their lovely daughter Chloe
(Samara Weaving) and a little later she arrives
and offers her services to clean their house. Amy
wants out and that night, spraypaints 'Sayonara'
on the windows and waits for her city friends to
pick her up, but they don't come. Amy has drunken
herself into a stupor and ends up on the edge of
bridge and almost falls when she is startled by
Chloe, but Chloe helps her up. They form a
friendship which involves Chloe helping Amy find
her biological parents and stealing a car for a
joyride, but soon their friendship becomes
something more one night when they break into a
motel room. Amy has a reason to stay, but there's
something not quite right about Chloe and Amy is
alerted to this when a detective comes to the door
looking for a girl named Jessica who looks exactly
like Chloe. She then finds out that the
neighbour's girl isn't the Chloe she knows and
confronts 'Chloe' about this and 'Chloe' takes Amy
to a caravan where she's been squatting and shows
her an ultrasound to prove that she is actually
the daughter of Michelle and Peter. To which
'Chloe' bashes Amy and attempts to kill her and
then usurp Amy as Michelle and Peter's child. Can
Amy survive and save her adopted family before
'Chloe' causes more havoc?
OK but fairly stock standard stalker thriller
despite playing slightly with convention by making
the 'good girl' a troubled teen instead of someone
who's perfect. Although a limited actress, Samara
Weaving is quite good as the crazy bad girl play
acting the angel, playing against type which works
well for her here while Sara West is also good.
Not bad and worth a look if you're into these
types of movies (which I am), but not exactly
essential either.
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