"Elsewhere"

Almost more of a cautionary tale of internet stalking, "Elsewhere" is a movie that seemed 60% Lifetime movie and 40% suspense thriller.  While the first 30 minutes of the film seemed slow and felt more like a "very special episode" of a 1980's sitcom -- the tale of two friends and the one friend's dangerous foray into internet voyeurism -- once the "wild" friend disappears the movie begins to feel more like the suspense thriller it is billed as.

Anna Kendrick is excellent as the lead character, Sarah.  She plays the role as one part good girl and one part crazy loyal friend willing to do whatever it takes to find her missing best friend.  I liked her.  And I especially liked her friend Jasper, played by Chuck Carter.  I don't know that I've ever seen Chuck Carter in any other movies, but I quite liked him and his character in "Elsewhere".   Sarah's friend, Jillian, is tragic even before she winds up missing.   Though she's less of a fully fleshed out character, I think a lot of that is due to the fact that for about 70% of the film she's missing.  The other characters, mousy Darla and asshole Billy are    done as well as peripheral characters in a film like this can be.  Paul Wesley, late of "Vampire Diaries" is especially fun as Billy and I found him comical (hopefully purposely funny) in the scene with Jasper and the paintball gun.

With very little blood or violence, this is a suspense (in the last half, anyways) movie and not so much a horror flick.  That being said, I enjoyed it and give it a solid three skulls.