Wheeler and the school at-large, as well as between Ben and his own conscience. Wheeler killed them all – after holding illicit affairs with them, of course!Ĭomplete with fabricated social media posts and fake news galore via deepfakes and deep-web meddling, Tanner’s stories spread like wildfire and send their SoCal community into an uproar. However, Tanner takes his musings a bit too seriously and a bit too far, and, using the recent disappearances of some of their fellow classmates as “proof”, she cooks up a theory on how Mrs. He vents about his now-doomed college applications in confidence to Tanner (Ramona Young), his mellow slacktivist best friend, hoping for nothing more than a sympathetic ear. Wheeler’s (Rita Moreno) cold-blooded decision to flunk his entire AP Physics class unless a recent test-cheater comes forward.
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Except in her case she fast-forwarded the setting to high school, and instead of the whole “My Teacher is a Werewolf” angle or whatever other supernatural entity was in vogue in that ‘90s moment it’s just straight-up “My Teacher is a Serial Killer” (you know, to really play to the true-crime hook that the directness of our modern age demands).īen (Connor Kalopsis) – the straight-edge, college-bound do-gooder – is wracked over his teacher Mrs. Maybe that’s too esoteric of a comparison but I think Maureen Bharoocha might sympathize with it, as her film The Prank feels very much inspired by that silly childish blend of offbeat horror-comedy sentiments.