{"id":16871,"date":"2024-05-27T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=16871"},"modified":"2024-05-28T17:35:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T16:35:17","slug":"media-movies-i-am-not-a-serial-killer-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=16871","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA\/MOViES: I Am Not A Serial Killer, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I watched this tonight. I started watching Kalifornia<\/em>, with Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, etc. But it looked like a steaming pile of poop. So I stopped, and watched this instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This looks and feels pretty low budget. But it has Chris \u2018Doc Emmett\u2019 Lloyd, of Back To The Future<\/em> fame, in a starring role. It\u2019s massively un<\/em>like most mainstream fare. And that\u2019s a very<\/em> good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IMDB plot synopsis succinctly sums up the basic idea: \u2018In a small Midwestern town, a troubled teen with homicidal tendencies must hunt down and destroy a supernatural killer while keeping his own inner demons at bay.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not going to bother delving any further. Suffice to say, John Cleaver (Max Records), our central young dude, is struggling with sociopathic tendencies and \u2018dark thoughts\u2019, living a fairly dysfunctional life in a nowhere Hicksville US town. And a serial-killer is preying on local folk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a dark humour at work here. And it\u2019s also refreshingly \u2018kitchen sink\u2019, as opposed to Hollywood gloss. Apparently it\u2019s based on a book. And I\u2019ve read that it\u2019s a quite faithful adaptation. I have no knowledge on that score. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final surprise is a pretty whopping one. And takes the movie quite abruptly into territory I normally avoid like the plague. But in case anyone doesn\u2019t know, I won\u2019t spoil things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where this steers closer to other modern movies is in the several \u2018sudden left turns\u2019 aspect. Expectations are set up, only to be deftly switcheroo\u2019ed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This wasn\u2019t quite what I was looking for. Nor quite what I expected. But I did<\/em> think it was worth seeing. I\u2019m still not sure what I make of it. Other than it\u2019s refreshingly unlike most movies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched this tonight. I started watching Kalifornia, with Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, etc. But it looked like a steaming pile of poop. So I stopped, and watched this instead. This looks and feels pretty low budget. But it has Chris \u2018Doc Emmett\u2019 Lloyd, of Back To The Future fame, in a starring … <\/p>\n

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