The In Crowd is another one of those dumb Disturbing Behavior, Urban Legend type movies, with a so-called hip, up and coming cast. At first, I thought what I was watching was intended as camp, but as the film progressed, I started to wonder if what I was seeing was actually meant to be taken seriously.

Adrien Williams (Lori Heuring) is a young woman who has just been released from a psychiatric hospital. Things are looking up when her doctor gets her a job working at a resort for young, snobbish rich kids. While at the resort, Adrien makes friends with Britney (Susan Ward), the most elite of the elite, who always seems to have a hidden agenda. Soon, Adrien discovers that many things are not as they seem.

The In Crowd features beautiful people doing ugly things and brought to mind the twisting thriller Wild Things. Wild Things, however, had a consistent rhythm and a goofy energy that The In Crowd is sorely lacking. So much of this film is flat out stupid and predictable that I couldn't believe what I was watching.

It's directed by music video veteran Mary Lambert who also helmed Siesta and Pet Semetary (one of Stephen King's better horror adaptations), and there's nothing special about her direction here. I suspect that when she came on board, she was making an R rated film, but the studio clipped it down to a PG-13 so youth all around the country could be subjected to yet another awful film about young people doing evil stuff.. And that's to say nothing of it's cheesy Thelma and Louise ending.

The In Crowd doesn't reach the lows of The Skulls and Battlefield Earth, but there's still a place for it on the coveted worst of 2000 list. This has been a dismal Summer Movie Season and unless Hollywood has a dynamite Fall and Christmas line-up, I don't know if I'll bother with a best-of list.