Killer Movie (V)
| release date | February 3 2009 |
| studio | Peace Arch Entertainment |
| director | Jeff Fisher |
| writer | Jeff Fisher |
| starring | Paul Wesley, Kaley Cuoco, Gloria Votsis, Al Santos |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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I love direct to dvd movies some of the better horror movies i’ve seen recently are direct to dvd. This isn’t one of them it was way to predictable and didn’t have enough blood shed for me the acting was very poor as well, and the plot wasn’t there either. when i set down to watch something i wan’t to have fun doing so with this one i was just bored. the only good point of the movie was watching kaley cuoco run around in here little skirt.
I liked it! falls into the category of “so bad its good.”
It was pretty good
A bit disappointing overall, but it’s much better than some of these awful, mini-budget DTV slashers you’ll find. This movie actually had a good cast, a good budget and it was fairly enjoyable. The deaths were alright, the acting was good and the script was decent. The main problems with the film though, were the ridiculous amount of cliches that it became hard to tell whether it was deliberate or just laziness. The killer’s identity was predictable too…but overall, it’s good enough. Not sure if a sequel is needed though.
Killer Movie is about a reality show crew shooting in some back country town when someone starts knocking off members of the crew and people in the town. This one succeeds in actually having a plot, and it also succeeds in being satirical and relatively entertaining.
This movie does a decent job of sending up a bunch of the cliche’s of the horror genre, without being Scary Movie stupid. I’ve definitely seen worse movies. The last movie I reviewed, being one of them, by far.
Killer Movie is well served by not being what it presents itself as. I was expecting a more straightforward, run of the mill slasher film, so it was fun to get something a little more unusual and which is actually trying to be a little bit smarter. This isn’t a Scream kind of parody or satire either. It’s as much a satire of the Hollywood stereotypes as it is of the horror films or reality television.
It actually does succeed in being a mystery. In watching the entire film, I didn’t know what was going to happen or who it was that was doing the dirty deeds. I have to give them some credit for that. Considering the number of movies I watch, it’s getting increasingly difficult for me to find a plot mystery I can’t figure out in short order.
The short version of the story is that Killer Movie doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it does work pretty well in the same way many of the slasher films from the eighties do. It is descended more from the original Prom Night or the old Italian giallo’s than it does with most of the films being released right now, including the remakes of those films. Killer Movie isn’t exactly a killer movie, but it is entertaining, well done, and while the cast isn’t exactly Oscar worthy, it almost makes the film work a little bit better because they are all a bunch of Hollywood wannabe’s and rejects, they should act like bad actors, because they are bad actors, who want to be taken seriously.
It might not be for everyone, but if you’re hanging around on a rainy day with a few hours to kill, you could do worse than Killer Movie.
Pretty standard slasher fare. Far better than some (well acted) but still, not enough gore (was there any gore?!), lousy killer, a real lousy ending and I wasn’t a fan of the constant cutting to the one-on-one (reality style) interviews.
Like I said, you could do worse and for a rainy afternoon it’s a good watch…just don’t expect greatness here.
Really basic and tame slasher–something that actually has to be replayed again just to remember things from the movie just watched. The one standout that gets a high five is the bimbo blonde (Cuoco) who was the sole spark for the film and played her part to a T. The rest of the characters were cast well for intended material, but the efforts get lost a bit due to the reality style cut-scenes, weak motives, and a feeble killer. Not bad, but too vanilla.
Killer Movie is a slasher film which takes place within a reality tv show. A small North Dakota town with a history of violent “accidents” is the backdrop. The crew is out filming a reality show about the local high school hockey team’s quest for the state tournament, when the “accidents” begin. When the crew starts vanishing one by one…..well that is when the violence begins.
Killer Movie was disappointing to me for for the fact that they took facets of Drop Dead Gorgeous and Hot Fuzz and instead of producing an entertaining horror mockumentary, we are left with a rather boring and lackluster slasher film that was not even slightly scary. To top it off, the whole time I watched the film I kept thinking about how similar things were to set ups from other, better slasher films.
While there are some entertaining moments and characters, the overall story and execution was just very lacking. It is sad to see decent characters and acting combined with a terrible setting and story that end up creating a rather regrettable movie experience. I cannot really recommend this one, bu if you must see it, try the rental approach.
I thought that this movie was pretty good. It is one of those movies that I would watch when I get bored though.