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Good movie but lame special effects.
The flick itself centers around 4 teens at Mar Vista High School. They are outcasts & misfits who find a mysterious stone that gives them magical powers & an evil personna.
Reese, (Anders) is a new student who moves to the school, gets bullied around a bit, then meets the other 3. They go to the woods on a trip together, find the stone laying out in the open, after holding it they each are given special powers. You can see a light in their eyes, a different colored light for each one, then they are transformed into evil personnas.
They go back to school, show off their new personnas, where they do stuff previously they were not capable of. But decide to ditch the stone after a friend of theirs is hurt because of its effect on them.
The music is good, but pretty basic. The camerawork is good, but nothing special. The special effects are lame, you can see how cheaply done this movie is by the lights in their eyes looking like flashlights with colored bulbs, & the light over one of the guys who floats in the air is obviously done by a flashlight. The acting is good enough though to make the movie be very enjoyable. I loved it a lot when I viewed it, but the special effects just keep it as an average b movie.

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Forgettable, but really good at the beginning...
This EXTREMELY CHEAP movie is about four kids who get magical powers from some elemental stone--(made by the gods through the ages, yakkity yak)--and then get telekinetic, and sometimes pyrotecnic powers. Now, I like fantasy/scifi movies, and even though the stupid high school acting and personalities were stupid (WAY too much sex and drugs--my high school is NOT like that...)It was interesting. But when it hurts one of their friends, they all say "No more evil powers" except for some school *cough, cough* --(need I say more)?--girl. this is when the movies started to suck. She goes on some totally unbelieveable evil rampage, then tries to kill her *old* friends. she dies....blah, blah, blah, no more evil stone for them.
It was a good movie, up until they all started sleeping with each other and killing each other. still, if you can deal with the 10-year ago '80s like special effects, and the miniscule acting, its worth watching--not buying.

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The truth
Ok everybody is saying how well written and acted and the plot and bla bla bla is... well here's the truth.. the acting was good-some of the characters weren't totally beliveable when they screamed for help or what ever, next, the music wasn't that great because i don't even remember the music, I mean it didn't even stand out that much for me to remeber, next, the camera angles made me sick, the kept bobbing it back and forth, back and forth, it was like I was getting sea sick in my own living room, but I do give them credit for good plot and good effects for a low budget film, I watched this on HBO or something, not on dvd I would only own this movie if it was for sell for less than $6.00. And I enjoyed it, I just wouldn't want to own it. So i think you should just rent before you buy,