Mostly loved this but the acting and dialogue were bad bad, not good bad. I LOLed at the line about his soul being trapped by the amulet or whatever silly shit that was. I feel like the movie couldn’t decide if it wanted to go the “he’s just an animal force” theme from the ending monologue or the “he has a very specific origin story” route, doing both is kinda dumb.
This is definitely not a movie for everyone so I think that’s a fair takeaway. That being said, I think it’s much more about what it’s emulating than whether or not it’s doing it bad-bad or good-bad. I think it nails the campy slasher aesthetic with some cornball dialogue and some cornball origin but it does it all from such a unique perspective that I find it easy to overlook any mixed signals at the end. It’s my favorite horror movie of the year so far but I also don’t expect everyone to love it.
This rules and is very funny so far. I feel like a lot of people (in general, not in here) are missing what tone the movie is shooting for. Very fun stuff
It is crazy how many people I follow on LB that missed the point on this one. People seem to be grasping so hard at the idea that the director wants to be “above” horror and to make an art film or whatever. No he doesn’t! He very clearly is having fun in the slasher sandbox from a relatively new angle, while giving genre fans more than enough of what they want.
The last car scene (f132 cameo!) goes on too long, but it is also pretty funny. The “deep” metaphor about killing because it’s in something’s nature is undercut by the corny necklace hallucination in the first part of the film. Johnny has a purpose, he isn’t a mindless killing machine, and the “final girl” or whatever is going to live in fear like Tony Soprano the rest of her life even though he has gone back to his grave in the forrest.
Dead Meat really my favorite YouTube channel and this Kill Count was super well done. Love that James left it uncensored too.