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- Totally Killer may not take full advantage of its promising conceit, but this time-traveling horror/sci-fi mashup is still enjoyable overall. Read Critics Reviews Totally Killer has fun with its premise and Kiernan Shipka is great in the lead, so even if this isn't the best movie of its kind, it's still well worth a watch.
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87% Tomatometer 104 Reviews 77% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Thirty-five years after the shocking murder of three teens, the infamous "Sweet Sixteen Killer" returns on Halloween night to claim...
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Oct 6, 2023 · “Halloween” gets mashed up with “Back to the Future” in the totally cheeky and knowing “Totally Killer.” This tricky genre mix from director Nahnatchka Khan (“ Always Be My Maybe ,” “Fresh Off the Boat”) is a fish-out-of-water comedy filled with amusing one-liners combined with time-travel sci-fi that actually kinda makes sense.
Oct 5, 2023 · This teen slasher comedy with a time-traveling twist can’t muster up enough charisma to make its mash-up concept sing. Kiernan Shipka, left, and Olivia Holt in “Totally Killer.”. Amazon ...
- Nahnatchka Khan
- Brandon Yu
- 106 min
- An '80s slasher homage with a lot of heart
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By Amelia Emberwing
Updated: Sep 29, 2023 5:45 am
Posted: Sep 29, 2023 5:01 am
Totally Killer premieres October 6 on Prime Video. This review is part of IGN’s coverage of Fantastic Fest 2023.
Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina may have completed their runs, but Kiernan Shipka is returning to the role of an annoyed teenager ready to take on the world in Prime Video’s Totally Killer. And by “world,” I actually mean a deranged serial killer and 1980s culture, of course. While this type of part isn’t quite new to Shipka, she’s doing what she does best here alongside director Nahnatchka Khan of Always Be My Maybe and Fresh Off the Boat fame in what ends up being something along the lines of Scream meets Disney Channel Original Movie. In case it’s unclear: That is a compliment.
Shipka plays Jamie Hughes, a typical teen who would like her mom to, like, totally chill out, man. But Pam Hughes (Julie Bowen) isn’t your typical mom. She may give strong “very involved in the PTA” vibes, but she also survived the 1987 murder spree of the so-called Sweet Sixteen Killer. Three of her classmates weren’t so lucky, so Pam’s got a pretty solid reason to be Overbearing Mom of the Year. But when have teenagers ever cared about their parents’ rationale – especially in the movies?
And what’s one of those movies without a traumatic event that helps the teenager realize all the things they took for granted? When a tragedy strikes the Hughes family, Jamie will stop at nothing to make things right. There’s just one little hiccup: The Sweet Sixteen Killer is back, and he seems extremely interested in the only child of Pam and Blake Hughes (Lochlyn Munro). An altercation between Jamie and the killer sends her throttling back in time to 1987, where she’s given the chance to set things right in the future – if she can avoid the pesky serial killer in the rubber mask, that is.
All of the Back to the Future references you expect are front and center here, but not in a way that’s cloying. What makes Totally Killer’s depiction of the ’80s so refreshing is that it limits the loudest period signifiers to the Sweet Sixteen Killer and the character archetypes – 1987 just looks like 1987, without the exaggerated costumes, hair, and sets we’ve come to expect from other nostalgia pieces. The one exception to this rule is The Mollys – the school mean girls who are obsessed with Molly Ringwald – but it’s for a bit, so it plays.
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Summer of 84
WNUF Halloween Special
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A lot of Totally Killer’s success is in its heart. That sincerity excuses a lot, like the hokey visual effects of the time-travel sequences – an aesthetic that’s clearly intentional, though it’ll grate on some. The film also earns some goodwill by acknowledging that time travel stories are messy business, and they’re always defying their own logic. If you’re the type to take teen slasher comedies super seriously (why?), fair warning: Totally Killer defies its own logic a lot in the third act. But Shipka’s patented brand of earnest-kid-who-screws-up-sometimes-but-loves-incredibly-hard does a lot of work here.
Totally Killer may not reinvent the wheel, but its blend of Scream meets Disney Channel Original movie gets the job done quite admirably. The cast and the story’s heart makes up for any technical missteps, and while it definitely falls into the usual time travel traps, it makes fun of itself while doing so!
Totally Killer is a 2023 slasher horror starring Kiernan Shipka(Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina),Olivia Holt(Girl Vs Monster),Lochlyn Munro (White Chicks)and Julie Brown(Tangled Animated Series). The plot follows a 17 year old girl named Jamie(Shipka) who is grieving the death of her mother Pam(Bowen) who was faithfully stabbed by a masked ...
One of the best films of the year, and the most meta the horror genre has seen since Scream, Totally Killer is the horror comedy you have totally been waiting for. Full Review | Nov 2, 2023
Oct 6, 2023 · ‘Totally Killer’ Review: Kiernan Shipka in a Fun-Enough Time-Traveling ’80s Slasher Flick. Nahnatchka Khan directs Blumhouse's horror-comedy about a Gen Z teen who accidentally time-travels to...
