Here's a brand new horror-comedy for you: Totally Killer and yes, we're going back to the 80s again.
It starts out in present day, with Jamie (Kiernan Shipka) being completely over it with her parents. Thirty-five years ago, their high school was shattered by three murders, of Jamie's mom's friends, by the Sweet Sixteen Killer. And then, on Halloween, the SSK returns for unfinished business: stabbing Jamie's mom (Julie Bowen) sixteen times and killing her right there in their home. Luckily, Jamie's friend Amelia is a science prodigy and builds a time machine, based on her own mom's schematics. When Jamie is chased by the SSK, she manages to get the time machine working and transports herself back to October 27, 1987. She meets up with Amelia's mom and sets out to save the three murder victims - and her own mom too, all of whom are sixteen years old, just like her.
As someone who was there in 1987, the "80s hair" in Totally Killer is, like, totally wrong. And we didn't call our friends "bitches" - that's a more modern usage. Kiernan Shipka is great as a fish out of water, trying to apply 2023 morals/ideals to the late 1980s. There are pretty wild swings between comedy and horror - it's never suspenseful or scary, but a little bloody and violent (Jamie's mom's fight against the killer is brutal).
This is lightweight entertainment, like they wanted to be Scream but it's less well done and not as smart, with more superficial characters. Good enough for a watch but it won't be one of the ones we remember.
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