After the death of her mother, Becket, a teenager and smart girl, has moved to live in the city with her father, where she joins a prep school in which she faces the horrible truth of the school's headmistress.
Takes a machine-gun approach to filmmaking, spraying the audience with as many genres, storylines, themes, and cliches as possible, hoping one will stick.
... there's little appeal for the Twilight/Hunger Games demographic let alone general audiences. Brougher collaborated on the screenplay and could have easily moved things along to make the narrative arc less narcoleptic.
Innocence takes its time setting an intriguing scene, letting the uncanny gauntlet of adolescence echo the trepidation about women in power working together toward undoubtedly creepy ends and the ghosts that haunt the privileged.
Innocence, adapted from Jane Mendelsohn's novel, boasts a wicked setup, some strong performances, several gloriously bloody spook-out images, and a movie-wrecking hypoglycemic listlessness.