Plot
Three women are stalked by a killer with a grudge that extends back to the girls' childhoods.
Release Year: 2008
Rating: 5.1/10 (5,187 voted)
Director:
John Simpson
Stars: Katheryn Winnick, Laura Breckenridge, Jessica Lucas
Storyline As retribution a psychopathic stalker known only as The Laugh attacks the now adult girls who picked on his sick childhood tendencies. Tabitha, Shelby and Lisa become the target of a madman with a serious adolescent grudge.
Cast: Keir O'Donnell
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The Laugh
Katheryn Winnick
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Tabitha
Laura Breckenridge
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Shelby
Jessica Lucas
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Lisa
Tad Hilgenbrink
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Rob
(as Tad Hilgenbrinck)
Reid Scott
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Dan
Rena Owen
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Psychiatrist
Kevin Gage
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Tryton
Brennan Bailey
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Danny
Preston Bailey
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Max
Shauna Duggins
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Woman In Truck
Fernanda Dorogi
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Cat
Eyad Kurd-Misto
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Child Laugh
Karley Scott Collins
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Child Tabitha
Jadin Gould
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Child Shelby
Opening Weekend: PHP 1,077,053
(Philippines)
(10 May 2009)
(12 Screens)
Gross: PHP 1,755,826
(Philippines)
(17 May 2009)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
USA:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
WILHELM SCREAM: When Lisa is upstairs in the home of the Laugh, unknowingly speaking directly to him.
Quotes:
[repeated line]
The Laugh:
It's funny, right?
User Review
For the studio pocketbook's amusement, not the audience's.
Rating: 4/10
I wasn't amused with "Amusement".The laughable synopsis on the cover
goes like that: Tabitha,Shelby and Lisa.They're longtime friends on
separate life paths.But they share a horrific destination when a
seemingly innocent incident from their school days comes back to
terrify them.Someone wants payback:warped vengeance...mind-games
vengeance...taunting,shredding,slashing vengeance.Inside a stone-walled
chamber of prison cells and mechanisms of doom,the three women and
other victims face a fierce fight to survive."Amusement" is
terrible.With dumb plot and zero scares it offers nothing even remotely
interesting even for seasoned horror fan.The killer is an
underdeveloped cliché with truly annoying laugh.There is only one
effectively creepy scene in which the emerging female lead is
confronted with a room stuffed with dolls and clowns.The violence is
tame so gorehounds and slasher fans will be disappointed.4 out of 10.
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