Teaching Mrs. Tingle

After the success of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and television's Dawson's Creek, screenwriter Kevin Williamson made his directorial debut with this screwball thriller in which an honor roll student and two friends kidnap their witchy teacher. Although her single mom (Lesley Ann ...more

Although its poor box-office performance took the luster off Kevin Williamson's storied career, the big-name screenwriter's directorial debut is actually a highly watchable piece of teen exploitation -- that is, until it runs out of ideas at its climax. Like all Williamson projects, Teaching Mrs. Tingle wears its influences on its sleeve -- plot straight out of Nine to Five, teen dynamics from the John Hughes playbook -- but that doesn't make it any less entertaining. The casting's great, ...more