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With: Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Julie Bowen, Charlie Gillespie, Lochlyn Munro, Troy L. Johnson, Kimberly Huie, Liana Liberato, Kelcey Mawema, Stephi Chin-Salvo, Anna Diaz, Ella Choi, Patti Kim, Jeremy Monn-Djasgnar, Tommy Europe, Nathaniel Appiah, Conrad Coates, Nicholas Lloyd, Jonathan Potts, Randall Park, Zach Gibson, Brendan O'Brien, Andy Thompson
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Written by: David Matalon, Sasha Perl-Raver, Jen D'Angelo, based on a story by David Matalon, Sasha Perl-Raver
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Directed by: Nahnatchka Khan
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MPAA Rating: R for bloody violence, language, sexual material, and teen drug/alcohol use
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Running Time: 106
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Date: 10/06/2023
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Killing Time
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Echoing things like Scream, Happy Death Day, and Freaky, the bloody, self-aware Totally Killer is a fun time-travel/serial killer comedy in which characters have seen Back to the Future and are able to reference it. In 1987, three teen girls are murdered in a small town. Thirty-five years later, on Halloween, teen Jamie (Kiernan Shipka) goes to a concert. While she's out, her mother Pam (Julie Bowen) — who was a friend of the three murdered girls — is attacked and murdered by a masked killer. Later, Jamie herself is attacked, and while hiding inside a time machine built by her best friend, Amelia (Kelcey Mawema), is accidentally transported back to 1987. She gets the idea to save the three girls, stop the killer, and thereby save her mom as well. She meets Amelia's teen mother Lauren (Troy L. Johnson) — the actual inventor of the time machine — and gets her to help. Unfortunately, things don't go very smoothly. Directed by Nahnatchka Khan (Always Be My Maybe), the movie is snappy, funny, and wise, although slightly undone by a too-simple ending. Look for Khan's favorite actor Randall Park as a sheriff in 1987.
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