Totally Killer
As a capsule description Totally Killer sounds totally familiar. A nice white-picket American town in 1987. Three 16-year-old females murdered, stabbed 16 times by the same masked mystery assailant. The murderer never caught. Now, 35 years later, on Halloween, it’s happening again. A Nightmare on Elm Street? Friday the 13th? Most obviously Halloween – the date, the mask, the teenagers, the burbs and all that. Yes. But no. Because to that heady bestiary of 1980s horror, writers David Matalon and Sasha Perl-Raver add another mid-1980s staple – the time-travel movie, à la Back to the Future (1985) or Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). Kiernan Shipka plays Jamie Hughes, the Peggy Sue/Marty McFly avatar … Read more