All the Boys Love Mandy Lane tries to subvert the teen slasher drama like It Follows took on 80s horror movies and The Guest took on 80s thrillers. Unfortunately All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is closer to M. Night Shyamalan than a fresh take on a nostalgic genre. Perhaps in an effort to hide the twist, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane alluded too vaguely to the motivation and depended too much on the audience to fill in the blanks. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane was a bit too in love with the genre and devoted more time to obeying the rule that teens having sex or taking drugs must be punished instead of spending more time on what it means to get into the cool crowd if you weren’t before. I also think that All the Boys Love Mandy Lane made a limp effort to reflect on the tyranny of beauty. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane annoyed me with its inconsistent gore. A wound inflicted in one scene looked less severe later in the movie. Another movie maker should take another stab at recreating All the Boys Love Mandy Lane because I see what they wanted to accomplish, but they didn’t.