Written by David Matalon And Sasha Perl-Raver And Jen D'Angelo
Directed by Nahnatchka Khan
Jamie: "Fucking time travel!"
It's a bit early in the year for a Halloween themed movie but I was bored and in the mood for a fun, goofy slasher flick and then I realised something. I hadn't actually watched this particular movie at all. Time to rectify that I guess.
The movie itself focused on a teenager named Jamie Hughes (Kiernan Shipka) who had planned to go see a rock concert of one of her mother's peers. The mother being Pam (Julie Bowen) whom Jamie had a bit of a testy relationship with.
Anyways, Jamie lived in a town where over thirty years ago, three of Pam and Blake's (Lochlyn Munro) classmates were murdered by the Sweet 16 Killer. The killer was never caught but their presence made both Pam and Blake hyper vigilant and alienated Jamie. Then Pam ended up being killed early into the movie.
Jamie grieved her mother's loss and took her anger out on unhelpful cop Kara Lim (Patti Kim) but then realised she could use her best friend Amelia Creston's (Kelcey Mawema) time machine and prevent her mother's death by catching the killer. Well, there was that and nearly being killed herself that inadvertently brought her back to the day of the murders.
For Jamie this meant seeing younger versions of her parents, played by Olivia Holt and Charles Gillespie. It also meant seeing their friends/peers such as Tiffany (Liano Liberto), Kara (Ella Choi), Marisa (Stephi Chin-Salvo) and Heather (Anna Diaz) as a as Randy (Jeremy Monn-Djasgnar), Doug (Nathaniel Appiah) and wannabe reporter Chris (Nicholas Lloyd). Most of these characters were slated to die, two were meant to hook up later and two of them would be the killer in different timelines.
At least Jamie had the help of Amelia's mother, Lauren (Troy L. Johnson/Kimberly Huie) in both the past and present. Jamie of course did manage to save her mother, stop two killers, learned more about herself and her parents past. She also altered her present day and ended up with a gay older brother and was now known as Colette.
- Randall Park popped up as the father of Kara Lim and wasn't interested in anything Jamie had to say.
- The movie might have made too much of a point in referencing Back To The Future. Jamie even compared herself to Marty McFly at one point.
- Standout music: Bananarama's Venus and Bob Crawford's He Loves Me He Loves Me Not.
- Chronology: The Sweet 16 killer struck between October 29th to 31st 1987 while Jamie herself was from 2023.
I do like an 1980s nostalgia fest and while there have been better efforts, there's something rather charming about Totally Killer. It's nothing revolutionary but it's enjoyable nonetheless.
Rating: 7 out of 10
No comments:
Post a Comment