The Prime Video-Blumhouse production is Back to the Future meets Scream starring Kiernan Shipka.
Totally Killer, a new Blumhouse film that hits Prime Video today, blends three of my favorite genres: time travel, horror, and whodunit. It’s about a teenager who travels back in time to stop a masked killer, teaming up with her teenage mom in the process, and it’s every bit as enjoyable as that sounds. Kiernan Shipka plays Jamie, a modern teenager who brushes off her lame mom Pam while also borrowing her vintage clothing.
Still, as Jamie, Pam, and the others slowly realize they’re being killed, the time-travel tropes get interlaced with the whodunit aspect. We begin to notice how people are reacting to things, who’s absent in certain scenes, and so on. That idea of a masked killer mystery and all its subsequent horror aspects is much more dialed back and predictable than the time travel stuff is but, nevertheless, adds a very welcome layer of interest to a movie that already was kicking on all cylinders.
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