Totally Killer (2023)

Totally-Killer-(2023)
Totally Killer (2023)

Many of us have reached a general consensus that the best part of the 1980s were the highlights the mullets, loud colors, and A Flock Of Seagulls, in fact, it was quite a horrible decade. There comes Nahnatchka Khan’s wonderful combination of horror and comedy movie Totally Killer who has a love and hate relationship with the 1980s. The good part it is over. The bad part it had a lot of nostalgic moments, but it is filled with horror and tragedy. But the best thing about the movie was I vaguely remembered the actor Lochlyn Munro while in reality, it was one of the most hilarious and smart comedies.

Spyverse’s Kiernan Shipka perfectly depicted Jamie in the movie while she and her best friend, along with Jamie’s other ingenious ideas, try to save the day. 30 years after the initial crime, she begs her best friend Amelia to help her undo the crime by traveling back to the 80’s. The best thing about the movie is it virtually stops time.

If there’s one defining aspect of this movie, it’s that definitely not a slasher. The entire my mother was killed angle serves only as a plot device to enable a Gen Z to visit the eighties era which, let’s face it, was filthy and idiotic. The bulk of the humor in Totally Killer (and it’s fair to say it is one hilarious movie) comes from the general absurdity of the eighties which served as the dream setting for a serial killer, and they do it quite well without trying to be too ‘holier than thou.’ It was simply the norm, and anyone who tries to contest this is simply fighting a lost battle.

My favorite one is the part where Jamie arrives at school and tells a secretary who, needless to say, couldn’t care less, that she wants to enroll as an exchange student. We have become accustomed to saying how stupid this is, yet it is a clever turn of events that makes an already hilarious moment even funnier. It contradicts the micro-managing style we have come to adopt when it comes to student politics, protection, data privacy, identity, and so on. It is equally pointless to shun the indifferent and disinterested secretary for her inattention, as she had not been told that a job was in the first place to be enjoyable. That was a foolish line of thought back then.

The recurring aspect that is the portray of Randy (Jeremy Cyubahiro) who could have been born for this role. From burping, obscene gestures to being idly lazy, self-indulgent local cops or a gym instructor who gets off at the sight of her students brutalized. Its highlight is the fact that Totally Killer is a slasher movie which in its most acceptable way presents a thing that not a single person ever brought in the holodeck fantasies of the eighties: No, it was not a time that nurtured harsher folks, it is simply an era that is more perilous to exist in.

It might seem like a detail, but it’s smart and it makes everything sing.

Another odd quirk that makes Totally Killer more than it seems on paper is the contempt it has for a slasher movie. I dare not say sloppy, but it borders on idiotic in any other circumstance, but the extremes are so seamless in this that it’s a blast. For example, we have never witnessed the killer being preceded by the dreaded dramatic silence of anticipation. He’s just there and it turns into pandemonium. We are not surprised, but we are never quite in alignment either, which is always the case. Nor is it an anti or meta take on a slasher. It is simply a slasher that doesn’t care.

There are multiple self-defense expert characters making the killer’s life harder than its supposed to be by the genre’s criteria. So instead of the one-sided hunt that you expect as in every other slasher, you are met with something resembling a two-sided combat. Totally Killer will never over exert in patting its back but it has marvelously labeled the previously said as tedious only to go on to do something crazy and that is amusing. Moreover, it has a revolutionary hands-off approach which makes you more eager for more of that.

But I must inform you that this movie would look “emotional” in the dictionary as I have been saying it is during the hundred of words that follow that, n without emotion too, a ‘Totally killer’ is. Its nice, funny and a comedy movie with impertinent answers to questions that everyone has been providing the same answer to. The ‘asshole’ tag seems most proper to the movie but there is always that funny dry bronze sarcasm that renders boredom nonexistent and CPI makes sure nobody misses out on that. Not in a million imagination did I think I will love the movie so much, but please do thank me now as it is sort of a masterpiece.

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