TEEN LUST (Blaine Thurier). 80 minutes. Opens Friday (August 14). See listings. Rating: NN
Where to watch: iTunes
A teenage boy needs to have sex before dawn in order to save the world. That running gag fuels Blaine Thurier’s low rent cross between Can’t Hardly Wait and Rosemary’s Baby, and it gets tiring pretty quickly.
Jesse Carere is Neil, a boy whose parents have lined him up to be the virgin sacrifice for a Satanist cult. As the cult’s leader, an unrecognizable Cary Elwes hams it up, signaling how flippant he is – and you should be – about the material.
Neil and his best friend Matt (Daryl Sabara) escape the ritual and set out to get laid at obvious sex dens like a house party and a brothel. The goofy set-up is ripe for comedy but the gags are easy and predictable, and at times off-putting.
If there’s any saving grace, it’s the convincing bond between Carere and Sabara, whose commitment to the script is their own sacrifice.
