Well, this was a real treat. (No pun intended.) The story in a nutshell:
Rose McGowen and 3 other girls are the popular group in high school. Three of them kidnap the fourth and gag her by stuffing a bigass jawbreaker into her mouth as sort of a prank. They're all surprised when they get her out of the trunk and she's dead. She choked to death on the jawbreaker. Now, Rose McGowen acts (very badly) like she's surprised, and she takes charge. I guess she never really considered the fact that sugar-based gagging devices are going to shrink when they come into contact with moisture. Or did she?
Anyway, rather than alert the authorities, the girls decide to make it look like a rape/murder, so they drag the corpse back to the house and tear her clothes. Well, wouldn't you know, the main character comes along with the girl's homework. Rose bribes her into shutting up about it or something. I was a little too busy with my sesame chicken to pay attention. Well, suddenly, geek girl is popular (and is going by the name Vylette). No one recognizes her, not even the teachers, and they all think she's a new girl. It never occurred to anyoine that the old girl is mysteriously gone, and the new girl, who looks a lot like the old girl had the exact same schedule of classes. These people were pretty darn stupid, if you ask me.
Well, Rose McGowen acts like a bitch. Come to think of it, she always acts like a bitch. Somewhere in the mix, she gets the jawbreaker out of the dead girl and hides her under the bed while she has sex with Marilyn Manson (who looks a little too much like a sleazy version of Wierd Al). She then makes up this story about how dead girl liked to pick up strange men in bars and sleep with them. Pam Grier doesn't seem very smart because she believes it. Now, first of all, wouldn't Marilyn Manson have smelled the rotting corpse? Second, I've never seen a cop as dense as the one Pam Grier played in this film.
Well, wouldn't you know, Rose McGowen is such a bitch that she lets everyone know that Vylette (HA!) is really geeky girl. And all this just before the prom. Oh yeah. I forgot to mention that one of the popular girls left the group because Rose was a bitch, and she didn't like how they were handling the murder thing. So, she and Vylette (That kills me every time!) get together to try to bring justice. You want a good example of Machina ex Deus? Here ya go. They get ahold of a recordable talking birthday card that accidentally recorded Rose confessing to the murder. This was on prom night, mind you, so they have to act fast. They somehow get gowns, tickets, and a limo at the last second, and have a boyfriend (who is in drama, so he knows how to work the sound system) hook up the card so that everyone will hear it when Rose comes up to accept her tiara and bouquet for being prom queen. It's only natural for the most popular and hated girl to be voted prom queen, and, of course, she is. Well, you can guess what happens next.
This was a very bad movie. I learned one thing from it:
Marilyn Manson just can't look normal.