Totally Killer - Movie Review
all right so here's a movie you've been waiting for me to talk about I'm going to be honest I was just going about my day and I was like what else comes out this weekend besides Exorcist bever totally killer not going to lie it does not sound like my thing I don't know why probably because the title is totally killer there's nothing about that that screams hey Jeremy you busy this Thursday we have a film here waiting for you but it was on Amazon Prime the effort to watch it was very minimal so [Ø¢ __Ø¢ ] it the fact that I'm even doing this video probably tells you the movie is God awful or surprisingly enjoyable don't you give me that deductive reasoning like well you don't have a scotch in your hand so it must have been surprisingly good I don't drink in every negative [Music] review so totally killer is a light-hearted kind of com well I mean it's a comedy yeah but I think it was trying to be more comedic than it ended up being because I never had those laugh out loud moments but I did have Chuckles a story is back in 1986 there was this serial killer who killed three girls in this high school and then disappeared all these years later one of the surviving girls from that school has a daughter of her own that girl gets blasted back to 1986 correction 1987 whatever so she's privy to some information which she's going to be like I'm going to try to stop this killer sounds like Back to the Future meet SL reflect but isn't yeah pretty much the movie stars k shipka who I thought was great as the lead in the film she gets blasted back to the 80s so what's the fun there what's the fun in a time travel comedy well talking [Ø¢ __Ø¢ ] about the times obviously example she gets a ride to school from one of the parents one of the parents being a smoker she opens the door and the smoke just just nicotine smoke everywhere two little kids in the back seat just watching her go to school just in nicotine smoke it's going to be an entire generation of kids are going to be like that did that happen back then yes and that's probably the reason I have a Dy C off to this day sometimes it's [Ø¢ __Ø¢ ] talk about the time sometimes it's just technology they don't have then the main characters like oh I didn't even think that they wouldn't have that like DNA I mean not to say DNA didn't exist yeah life itself wasn't around no DNA testing that's what I mean there was a part of me when the movie started that was a little concerned as to whether or not the movie's going to be unintentionally campy I'll probably never get the answer to that question but when you see the time machine it just looks like yeah this high school student creates a time machine 10 years ago on that premise alone I would have said okay this is obviously a comedy you're not supposed to take that too seriously but just this year we saw a movie where a high school student made a Quantum device in a garage that took them to meet Kang so [Ø¢ __Ø¢ ] if I know what you're supposed to take seriously anymore but the time machine itself the prop looked like someone went to a random Spencer's Gift in a mall in the 9s and grabbed up all the little lighting things that they sell there slapped them together in 2023 so yeah it looks like the time machine prop involved time travel itself to make point is somewhere between slasher flick cheese comedy and lighthearted parental time travel Adventure the film does find its stride and I was able to kick my feet up and enjoy myself in which case [Ø¢ __Ø¢ ] I guess there is logic to the the observation that no Scotch means I'm not going to bag on the film and the point is it doesn't have to I'm going to get you next time negative review no Scotch head's going to spin the serial killer element itself is actually one of the weak spots of the film first of all the Killer is called the sweet 16 killer because he stabs the victim 16 times it sounds brutal when I'm explaining it for a YouTube video on screen in execution it's violent enough but it can lack variety not a deal breaker but undeniably part of the fun of a slasher flick is the varying ways the killer will dispatch someone here you know well he's going to stab the person let me guess 16 times they do their best to shake it up there is actually a pretty solid group fight against the killer that I really like Not only was the killer mask week it just looks like a generic purge mask you can get from Spirit Halloween store right now maybe it's supposed to be a Max hrum mask without the sunglasses that would make more sense for the time this takes place in but I thought the killer reveal was weak as well you could have done so much more given the premise of the film and just kind of like oh okay I guess the thing I enjoyed most about it wasn't even the serial killer backdrop it was the dynamic between the daughter and her parents yes it's a premise we've seen many times in film iconic films even the movie does at least address the parallels with Back to the Future in here on screen I like the take on the parental dynamic because it is kind of like Back to the Future but Back to the Future but what if Lorraine and George McFly were dicks what if your parents were the kind of [Ø¢ __Ø¢ ] in high school who would never hang out with you and you could not hang out with them but you have to because you have to save them from a serial killer it's not a cinematic deconstruction of the slasher film horror genre per se that we've seen films effectively be in the past but it is an enjoyably self-aware time travel slasher film party movie for when you and your friends want to lighten the mood for that Halloween Horror Night movie binge with some drinks yeah now it's a party are so totally killer have you seen it what did you think about it or for your Halloween binge what's a Halloween movie that's more fun than scary whatever it is whatever you think comment below let me know and as always if you like what you've seen here and you want to see more click right here to 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