Tree (Jessica Rothe) wakes up in a dorm room to be greeted by Carter (Israel Broussard). Ashamed that she got drunk enough to find herself with this guy, she quickly dresses and heads back to her sorority house. Along the way, she meets a lot of people who dislike her. That night, on her way to a party, she is murdered!
Tree wakes up in a dorm room to be greeted by Carter. Ashamed and somewhat confused, she heads back to the sorority house and suffers deja vu the entire time. That night, on her way to a party, she takes a different route. While making out with a handsome frat boy, she is murdered!
Tree wakes up screaming!
The movie is Groundhog Day meets Scream. Like Groundhog Day, the initial Tree is very easy to dislike. As she tries to solve her murder - the murderer wears a mask - she realizes that people have reason to dislike her and she becomes a better person thanks to this discovery. Where Bill Murray was never unlikeable in Groundhog Day - at least to the audience - Jessica Rothe was surprisingly easy to dislike. As such, her transformation was more pronounced.
Though it is a horror film, the repeated resurrection takes all the horror out of it. There are a couple of jump scares but it is more often funny than scary. Fun movie. Thumbs up.
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