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Friday, October 6, 2023

What's on Tonight: TOTALLY KILLER (2023) Time Travel Halloween Slasher Reviews

Totally Killer will be released worldwide exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on October 6, 2023. The must-see slasher-comedy for the spooky season which continues Prime Video’s partnership with Blumhouse Television is about a teenage girl who goes back in time thirty-five years to stop a serial killer. The film has been rated “R” for “Bloody violence, language, sexual material, and teen drug/alcohol use.

SYNOPSIS: Thirty-five years after the shocking murder of three teens, the infamous “Sweet Sixteen Killer“ returns on Halloween night to claim a fourth victim. Seventeen-year-old Jamie (Kiernan Shipka) ignores her overprotective mom’s (Julie Bowen) warning and comes face-to-face with the masked maniac and, on the run for her life, accidentally time travels back to 1987, the year of the original killings. Forced to navigate the unfamiliar and outrageous culture of the 1980s, Jamie teams up with her teen mom (Olivia Holt) to take down the killer once and for all, before she’s stuck in the past forever.

Directed by Nahnatchka Khan, Written by David Matalon, Sasha Perl-Raver, Jen D’Angelo, Produced by Jason Blum, Adam Hendricks, p.g.a., Greg Gilreath, p.g.a. and Stars Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Charlie Gillespie, Lochlyn Munro, Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, Liana Liberato, Kelcey Mawema, Stephi Chin-Salvo, Anna Diaz, Ella Choi, Jeremy Monn-Djasgnar, Nathaniel Appiah and Jonathan Potts with Randall Park and Julie Bowen.

This October, the Sweet Sixteen Killer is the frightening, fresh new face joining iconic villains from Blumhouse’s horror canon:

The Grabber / The Black Phone
The Butcher / Freaky
Babyface / Happy Death Day
Lady Liberty / The Purge: Election Year
Pooka / Into the Dark: Pooka!
Sweet Sixteen Killer / Totally Killer

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"Totally Killer may not go down as an instant classic, but it’s still a very funny and totally charming time, thanks to Khan’s direction and a game cast. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it’s also not trying to. It just wants viewers to have a fun time, and at that it absolutely succeeds...a crowd-pleasing horror comedy that should put a big grin on your face from beginning to end." ★★★½ Bloody-Disgusting.com

” …wants to be silly, but also looks to arrange suspense set pieces intended to bring nail-biting events to the picture. Totally Killer has its fun moments, but only when it remains in time travel exploration mode. Slasher activity is mostly uneventful, bringing severity to an endeavor that’s not sharp enough to be a triumphant black comedy, ending up a mediocre chiller instead.” ★★½ Blu-ray.com

“Unlike 2015’s surprisingly affecting comedy The Final Girls, which saw a teen transported into a horror movie led by her since-deceased scream queen mother, there’s no emotive pull here or attempt to make anyone or anything really matter. It leaves the last act as a bit of a scramble with some ineffective twists and some hard-to-follow gobbledygook papering over what feels a little too low stakes.” ★★ TheGuardian.com

“Holt and Shipka are such a stupendous pair and their chemistry is constantly on display. This helps aid the believability of Jamie and Teen Pam’s relationship. The mother-future-daughter bond helps give Totally Killer its heart and allows it to be elevated from others in the slasher genre […] Totally Killer is a lot of fun…” ★★★★ LoudAndClearReviews.com

Totally Killer’s humor is one of its standout features. Characters are filled with hilarious quips, ensuring that no scene, even the most intense ones, is devoid of a laugh. While the film does take a few playful jabs at the 80s, it doesn’t shy away from portraying its characters with all their delightful imperfections. They’re real, they’re messy, and they’re just trying to have a good time.” Nightmare on Film Street


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2 comments:

  1. The wife and I really enjoyed this one!

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    1. Sorry I had to repost this and I deleted your comment and my reply by accident. Yeah it was fun, I liked it too.

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