I’ve said it before, and, if RITES OF SPRINGS teaches me anything, it’s that it often bears repeating: almost anyone with an idea can write and shoot a slasher/horror picture these days, AND almost any studio will distribute it. The upside? The market continues to be flooded with good and … erm … let’s say “less than good” product, and that keeps the consumers coming back to the trough for yet another scare. The downside? Well, … more
Star Rating: An opening title card for Rites of Spring tells us that five teenage girls went missing on the first day of spring in 1984, and that a string of other young girls went missing the following year, again on the first day of spring, and that these disappearances continued annually for the next twenty-four years. We’re never told what state this happened in, although the film is littered with shots of cornfields, dilapidated barns, and rusty water … more