Danielle is the leader of a clique of arrogant, mean high school girls; she and her rich friends Tiffany and Brooke care only about their pampered selves (although Brooke has periodic misgivings). No one really hangs out with them except a dumb jock named Gavin, and the class nerd Jonathan, and poor Danielle is getting nowhere with the popular guy Drew, even after she and friends accidentally killed his last girlfriend. It's been a year, and Drew still ignores her - but he doesn't ignore the new foreign exchange student Katarina. Since Katarina can't take a hint, Danielle begins plotting her downfall. But there's a slight problem: Danielle and her friends begin experiencing a level of high weirdness in which all three of them rapidly age. This serves to make Danielle more desperate than ever. She'll sacrifice anything, even Drew, to get her youth and looks back.
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Danielle (Julie Benz), Tiffany (Nicole Bilderback) and Brooke (Monica Keena) are the three most popular and most nasty girls in their high school in Seattle. While the leader Danielle is used to getting what she wants, she is unable to attract lonesome ex-jock Drew (Jonathan Brandis) due to his mourning over the recent death of his girlfriend Charity Chase. Although Charity was believed to have committed suicide, this wasn't the case as Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke lured Charity to a cliff, hoping to terrorize her into breaking up with Drew, but ended up killing her by accident.

A year to the day of Charity's death, Romanian foreign exchange student Katarina (Suzanna Urszuly) arrives during the class of clumsy Media Arts Professor Mr. Chauncey (Christopher Lloyd). Katarina and Drew immediately become friends. Jealous from this, Danielle tries to do everything in her power to stop this friendship developing into love. In an attempt to get close to Drew, Danielle works at the elderly nursing home where Drew is also working. While there, she is assigned to look after an old lady (Janet Leigh) whom she believes is in a coma. Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke use this opportunity to raid the old lady's cupboard and eat her box of chocolates.

In the following two weeks, the three girls begin to notice that something strange is happening to them, they are receiving back pains and their hair is turning gray - to their horror they discover that they are aging at a rapid speed. They believe this has something to do with Katarina whom they now think is in fact Charity's ghost coming back to seek revenge. The three decide the only way to regain their youth is to kill Drew and let his spirit be with Charity.

On Halloween night, which is of Danielle's 18th birthday party, the three lure Drew to the same gorge where Charity died and attempt to shoot him. Katarina shows up and says she is not Charity's ghost. Danielle briefly ponders this but decides to shoot them both anyway. However, Brooke (the kindest of all the three) says that they have gone too far and tries to prevent Danielle from pulling the trigger to which Drew disarms her (due to Danielle being distracted by a party guest dressed in a clown suit from her party who is secretly Mr. Chauncey and she shoots him), and both Tiffany and Danielle are overcome from exhaustion.

After they're carried to the old age home, Tiffany is hooked on a life support machine and Danielle is barely alive. At that moment, Mrs. Witt, the old woman who Danielle was meant to be caring for, shows up and reveals that she was Charity's grandmother. Also, while she had been briefly unable to speak due to a stroke, she had very good hearing and sight and overheard Danielle bragging about Charity's murder. The grandmother then reveals she poisoned the chocolate box (knowing that the girls would eat it) with an aging chemical (thanks to her late friend's husband that works with biological warfare technology). While Danielle and Tiffany had eaten most of the poisoned chocolate, Brooke wasn't near death as she didn't eat as many and demonstrated self-control. In response to this revelation, Danielle defiantly flips the bird at Mrs. Witt, and then dies, with Tiffany presumably following shortly afterwards.

At Danielle's and Tiffany's funeral, everyone is in attendance, including Drew and Katarina (now an official couple) attends. Brooke is also in attendance after a plastic surgeon's operation give her a 50-year-old's appearance. Chauncey forgives her as he knew she wasn't as cruel as Danielle and Tiffany, and she regrets what she has done.

In the final scene, Danielle and Tiffany are then revealed to be in a luxurious room with their youth restored and are convinced that they are in Heaven. But it is revealed that they are actually in Hell as they are forced to forever endure the company of their school's most annoying dork, Jonathan Wharton (Aaron Paul), who is completely devoted to Danielle's every move. As such, he reveals that he committed suicide just to be with her forever and briefly morphs into the devil, to her and Tiffany's horror.

Janet Leigh's last movie.
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Jonathan Brandis' last movie.
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Early film featuring Aaron Paul, who, having played a stereotypical high school geek here, played the iconic character Jesse Pinkman, a rugged, tough guy, on Breaking Bad (2008).
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Filmed in 2000.
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Based on the novel by Paul Fleischman, a spoof of young adult horror novels popular at the time.
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The "Girl's Gymnastics Team Winter Roster", at which Tiffany (Nicole Bilderback) is looking, contains the names of crew members: Christina Toy (Production Manager), Sheryl Rhodes (Production Coordinator), Sarah Rogers (Second Assistant Director), Sarinah Haba (Art Assistant), Valerie Halverson (Set Supervisor), Audrey Skalbania (Canadian Casting), and Cindy Larsen (Assistant Hair Stylist).
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Jonathan Brandis and Janet Leigh both died before the film was released (Brandis in 2003 and Leigh in 2004).
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The houses of the main characters Danielle (Julie Benz) and Brooke (Monica Keena) were filmed in the upper class area of Capilano, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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The Huns are each shown to be wearing the same individual colors throughout the film: Danielle wears red, Tiffany wears purple, and Brooke wears blue. Red symbolizes passion, anger, excitement, love, energy, aggression, and insecurity. Purple symbolizes royalty, creativity, mysteriousness, childish, cruelty, prosperity, and arrogance. Blue symbolizes peace, depression, integrity, stability, loyalty, coldness, and harmony.
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In the original novel, Katarina was named Helga, and was from Norway, instead of Romania.
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Numerous sequences were filmed at the Cleveland Dam at Capilano Lake, Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Brooke is the only one of the Huns trio that doesn't swear or make any obscene hand gestures at any point in the film.
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The film was originally titled "A Fate Totally Worse Than Death", which is based on the novel of the same name by Paul Fleischman.
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The film was released on DVD five years after it was initially filmed.
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Although it took five years to finally get released, the film premiered at the Cannes Film Market in France.
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Just before Tiffany stands up in the hot tub, a flesh-colored body-wrap on Danielle is visible above the waterline and is visible again at the end of the scene as we see all three girls standing in the tub.
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The monitor by the darkroom entrance in the AV room shows that a camera is panning, zooming, and following Tiffany throughout the scene, although it's supposedly coming from a stationary camera since there's nobody else in the room that would be operating it.
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