Spin the Bottle-- My take on the movie with spoilers!

 

Plot: A group of friends play Spin the Bottle in the basement of a house where a massacre had taken place. A dangerous force is unleashed that haunts them.

Quick Movie Review

Spin the Bottle is a disappointing movie where actors Justin Long and Ali Larter are completely wasted. At the end of the movie, you are bound to question their presence in this movie, which is more about playing Spin the Bottle and making out, rather than dealing with a ghost.

The movie is unnecessarily long and tries too hard to be a horror movie when it is essentially a teenage drama.

SPIN THE BOTTLE Movie Plot

The movie begins in 1978 when a group of kids visit Lorelai's House, which is known to have some peculiar events happening.

The kids see the house, who are then intrigued by the door to the Cellar. Lorelai immediately says that they can not go down because her father told her not to and the others try to convince her. When nothing works, the guy Lorelai has a crush on barely requests her before she opens the door.

One of the girls finds a weird looking bottle and suggests that they all play Spin the Bottle.

The game begins, and everyone is pretty much making out with each other at every turn. When Lorelai's turn comes, the guy she has a crush on rejects her. Humiliated, she begins to feel bad when something in the bottle possesses her. Also, since the kids were sitting inside a pentagram, they were just asking for some evil to create havoc.

A priest is looking through a window and watches Lorelai killing everyone off. He just screams no.

After the title, the story returns to the present day.

Cole is meeting with his mother, Maura, at a rehab centre. She is asking for some time to recover and isn't too thrilled that he is living in the Randell House. He assures her that he will be fine and that he has it all under control. The nurse remarks that he is such a good son.

Maura requests Cole to not let anyone know that he is a Randell or that this town will drive him crazy.

Cole heads off to school and speaks to the football coach. The poor guy has barely entered the premises when he has already made enemies: Travis and Westin. On the other hand, Sophie and Mila are ogling him. Kasey is helping the coach, but from the minimal interaction, it is obvious that Kasey and Cole are going to end up together.

Cole begins to play, and he's only passing the ball but getting cheered on as if he has just won the championship. Jealous of the attention he is getting, Travis and Westin decide to hinder his progress.

Travis tries to block him only for Cole to jump over him. At this point, everyone is cheering like crazy for Cole.

Cole is quickly inducted into the group by Sophie and Mila. Travis congratulates him on his temporary social life. As luck would have it, Kasey is in the group too, so now we don't need to bother with who else is in school and why no one else talks to these students.

Sophie tries to make plans elsewhere, but it falls through. They decide that since Cole is the new guy, he should host the party at his house.

Cole drives them up to the house, and everyone seems to know that it is the Randell House where creepy stuff has happened.

They quickly make their way to the cellar and find the creepy bottle. They decide to play Spin the Bottle!

Mila begins to hear weird noises and gets freaked out. Everyone is making out with everyone. Kasey and Cole go really at it.

When it's Mila and Travis' turn, they get some privacy only for Mila to completely freak out. She wants to leave the house immediately.

She rushes out and finds a lift only to be thrown out of the car because the driver thought she was in substances, considering she was hallucinating.

The next day, the sheriff comes to Cole's doorstep to ask questions about Mila. He then finds out that Kasey is his daughter. After he leaves, he talks to Kasey who tells him that she is going to look for Mila but because news is out that he is a Randell, that he should hide out with Westin and Travis at the cabin.

Cole goes there only for Westin to point a gun at him. He pretends it's a joke, but Cole isn't too happy with a gun pointed at him, so he leaves.

Later, Kasey came up to his house because she went over to the cabin, and when she didn't find him there, she decided to pop over here. Kasey and Cole's relationship is being forced into the story for no reason.

When they hear a noise, they go out to see Sophie lying on the ground with blood on her. The two freak out, but when Travis and Westin sneak up behind them, they learn it's only a prank.

Kasey's father, the Sheriff, calls and tells her they found Mila's dead body at the train tracks. She is thought to have committed suicide. Kasey doesn't believe it and says so in her eulogy that Mila was the kindest and loved life, so there was no way she killed herself, and someone probably chased her down the tracks.

Her heartfelt eulogy turns into the entire town accusing Cole because of his lineage. The Sheriff drags Cole out and stuffs him into his truck, telling him to get lost to his home before the town strings him up.

The Sheriff comes to speak to Kasey and warns him against interacting with Cole and tries to convince her that Mila did kill herself. Mila gets nettled and walks away in a huff to go see her friends.

The friends all meet up with the inclusion of a new girl whose name we barely get to know. She's just here to add to the body count. They all play Spin the Bottle again just so they can make out with each other. Eventually, Westin and the new girl make out and go look for some privacy, which turns out to be a bad idea because both of them are killed in horrific ways by Lorelai's ghost.

Cole decides to get to the bottom of the mystery of his family history. He visits his mother, who reveals a shocking secret. Lorelai was abused by her father, who was trying to revive a demon. He thought abusing his daughter would somehow awaken the demon and give him powers or something. Lorelai is naturally traumatised and retreats into her shell.

Cole asks whether Lorelai was Maura's mother. Maura weeps, but it is implied that yes, they were not sisters but actually mother and daughter.

Cole then meets with Father Harris as well, who reveals that he did know about Lorelai's condition, and on the day she killed her friends, he was there and tried to stop her. The demon, which was contained in the weird bottle everyone wants to play Spin the Bottle with, escapes and possesses Lorelai.

Father Harris shows Lorelai that she is loved, and she manages to fight off the possession only to see the bodies of her so-called friends. Distressed, she kills herself.

Cole realizes that in order to stop the demon, they have to play Spin the Bottle one more time.

SPIN THE BOTTLE Ending Explained with Spoilers

Sophie, Travis, Kasey, and Cole meet up in the Cellar to play the game. They all make out with each other again.

Sophie freaks out when odd things begin to happen and runs away only to be found by a possessed Lorelai who sucks out her soul.

Travis is next, leaving only Cole and Kasey alive.

Cole and Kasey admit their feelings for each other in front of a possessed Lorelai who probably senses the family connection and decides to leave the two alone. Lorelai manages to conquer the possession and is freed while the demon is trapped in the bottle again.

The bottle, even though it was supposed to be destroyed, remains intact. The demon is apparently waiting for another group of teenagers who will make out while playing a party game.

The movie ends on a happy note for Kasey who is reunited with her father and gets a new boyfriend in Cole.

My Take On The Movie

Spin the Bottle boasts of good actors, but all of them are given practically nothing to work with. The story is stretched more than it should be but focuses more on teen drama rather than the scares.

Scare Scale: 2/5