Totally Killer Rating

Totally Killer

Blumhouse Television, Divide/Conquer

Amazon Prime Video

Release date

October 6, 2023

My Rating 

7/10

#whatonwhatsgood Fan Club Rating 

65%

Running time

106 minutes

Description

35 years after the shocking murder of three teens, the infamous “Sweet Sixteen Killer“ returns on Halloween night to claim a fourth victim. 17-year-old Jamie (Kiernan Shipka) ignores her overprotective mom’s (Julie Bowen) warning and comes face to face with the masked maniac and on the run for her life, accidentally time travels back to 1987, the year of the original killings. Forced to navigate the unfamiliar and outrageous culture of the 1980s, Jamie teams up with her teen mom (Olivia Holt) to take down the killer once and for all before she’s stuck in the past forever.

Writers 

David Matalon, Sasha Perl-Raver, Jen D’Angelo

Genres

Horror Comedy

Rating

R

Starring

Kiernan Shipka as Jamie

Julie Bowen as Pam

Olivia Holt as teen Pam

Randall Park

Lochlyn Munro as adult Blake

Charlie Gillespie as teen Blake

Liana Liberato as Tiffany Clark

Kelcey Mawema as Amelia

Stephi Chin-Salvo as Marisa Song

Anna Diaz as Heather Hernandez

Jeremy Monn-Djasgnar as teen Randy Finkle

Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson as teen Lauren

Ella Choi as teen Kara Molnar

Nathaniel Appiah as teen Doug Summers

Jonathan Potts as adult Chris Dubusage

Directed By

Nahnatchka Khan

Produced By

Jason Blum, Adam Hendricks, p.g.a., Greg Gilreath, p.g.a.

Story by

David Matalon and Sasha Perl-Raver

Music by

Michael Andrews

Totally Killer

(L-R): Anna Diaz as Heather Hernandez, Olivia Holt as Teen Pam, Liana Liberato as Tiffany Clark, Stephi Chin-Salvo as Marisa Song, Kiernan Shipka as Jamie Hughes in Totally Killer

(L-R): Kiernan Shipka as Jamie Hughes, Olivia Holt as Teen Pam in Totally Killer

Jonathan Potts as Chris Dubasage in Totally Killer

Julie Bowen as Pam Hughes in Totally Killer

Kiernan Shipka as Jamie Hughes

Olivia Holt as Teen Pam in Totally Killer

Randall Park as Sheriff Dennis Lim in Totally Killer

Nahnatchka Khan discusses Totally Killer

"It's Back to the

Future, but with a serial killer twist, and getting to go back in time and do some of those kills, eighties-style, I thought it was so smart and clever. And I knew I wanted to bring in the sort of true crime craze that's been going on, where people would have dedicated podcasts to the Sweet Sixteen Killer and crime timelines."

"The movie is a fun rollercoaster for everybody" 

"It's communal, something that's fun to experience with friends, family, however you watch." 

"There's something for everybody in there, it's a good time. Hopefully, people enjoy this because we definitely enjoyed making it."

Jason Blum discusses Totally Killer

"The time travel element makes this unique and really fun" 

"There’s 80s easter eggs like the fashion and music in the movie for people like me who lived through those years, but also for that generation who have seen the John Hughes movies, and movies like Heathers, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Back to the Future or watched them with their parents. 

Kiernan Shipka discusses Totally Killer

"The script was so fun, vibrant and lively, kind of that popcorn candy-type of movie where you want to be strapped in and attached to these characters" 

"Jamie's a modern teenager, but also flawed and not thinking about the big picture of her life quite yet. She's smart but spends too much time on her phone, listens to a ton of music, but is in that floaty sort of space in her life where she's not thinking about things on a grand scale, and then this tragic, life-altering thing happens. I really loved that she has a real arc and awakening throughout the movie as to what really matters."

Kelcey Mawema discusses Totally Killer

"I loved the way they wrote Amelia" 

"She's a science nerd but she's cool, not a stereotype. She's a really good friend too, selfless. I was the biology kid in school, so I had a little me in there for sure."