Departing Seniors

It’s everything a teen horror movie should be—messy, bloody and even steamy at times—but doesn’t add much to the slasher clichés we’ve seen before.

Departing Seniors has some decent suspense, a surprise or two, and a few things to say about bullying, if not about “outing” a still-working-it-out classmate in an only-in-the-movies high school that tolerates vaping. But what we’re seeing never escapes that “cut and paste” feeling.

There’s no real tension in this murder mystery (or much mystery, for that matter), the kills aren’t clever, and eventually this part of the story ends up feeling entirely unnecessary.