Rites of Passage (2012)

★ 5.0 1h 35m IMDb
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Anthropology students and their professor experience terror when they visit a sacred burial ground.

Rites of Passage

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Cast

Wes Bentley
Wes Bentley as Benny Age 47 · Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA Wesley Cook "Wes" Bentley (born September 4, 1978) is an American film actor known for his roles as Ricky Fitts in American Beauty (1999) and Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games (2012). Bentley was one o...
Kate Maberly
Kate Maberly as Dani Age 44 · Reigate, Surrey, England Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly (born 14 March 1982) is an English actress and musician. She has appeared in film, television, radio and on stage..
Ryan Donowho
Ryan Donowho as Nathan Age 45 · Houston, Texas From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ryan Wayne Donowho (born September 20, 1980) is an American actor and musician. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryan Donowho, licensed under CC-BY...
Travis Van Winkle
Travis Van Winkle as Hart Age 43 · Victorville, California, USA Travis Van Winkle is an American actor and producer, born on November 4, 1982, in Victorville, California, USA. He made his feature film debut in Accepted (2006) and soon gained recognition for his ro...
Briana Evigan
Briana Evigan as Penelope Age 39 · Los Angeles, California, USA Briana Barbara-Jane Evigan (born October 23, 1986) is an American actress and dancer. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Andie West in Step Up 2: The Streets and Cassidy Tappan in Sorority Row...
Christian Slater
Christian Slater as Delgado Age 56 · New York City, New York, USA Christian Michael Leonard Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor. He made his film debut with a leading role in The Legend of Billie Jean (1985). He gained wider recognition for his breako...

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Wuchak 6/10 Dec 18, 2023
**_When college partiers in SoCal experiment with Chumash drug rites_**

A ‘hip’ anthropology professor (Stephen Dorff) and his party-obsessed students spend the weekend at a mostly unoccupied ranch on the Pacific shore to take part in a Chumash jimsonweed ceremony. Unfortunately for them, the drug-addled brother of one of the students (Wes Bentley) lives on the ranch and wants a fantasy Chumash wife. Worse, there’s a psychotic crystal meth cook lurking nearby (Christian Slater).

“Rites of Passage” (2012) is a dynamic cabin-in-the-woods flick written & directed by one of the scriptwriters of “Point Break" from 21 years earlier. The ‘cabin’ in this case just happens to be a house on the coast of California on a vacant greenhouse farm in the Santa Barbara area. The production cost $2.5 million, which is certainly enough to make a competent movie of this sort.

Briana Evigan stands out on the female front as Penelope. Most of the rest of the ladies are attractive, but they could all stand to eat cheeseburgers for a week or two, if you know what I mean. For those who know Kate Maberly (Dani) from the outstanding “Secret Garden” (1993), it’s interesting to see her as an adult.

If you can handle the hedonistic spirit, the first half is compelling and amusing. For instance, one of the blondes is a Christian, which of course conflicts with the libertinism of the others. There’s also an entertaining sock monkey that seems to talk. Elsewhere, both Bentley and Slater are effective in their off-kilter roles, but the energetic second half loses its mojo along with the viewer’s attention. It needed tightened-up by editing out at least 12 minutes.

The movie runs 1 hour, 42 minutes, and was shot in November, 2010, by the coast in Santa Barbara, California.

GRADE: B-/C+

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