Kill Theory
While celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
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- Cast:
- Don McManus , Ryanne Duzich , Teddy Dunn , Daniel Franzese , Agnes Bruckner , Patrick John Flueger , Steffi Wickens
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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Don't listen to the negative reviews
It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
The picture opens with Walter getting out of a psychiatric institution after three years for killing three of his friends. Walter and Karl discuss this for nuances. Karl wants to see how well Walter does in the next year, and schedules regular visits.The film transitions to another environment where Walter can another kill-the-group exercise. Brent and Amber, Michael and Jennifer, Carlos and Nicole, the heavy loner Freddie, and the biker girl Alex. The group celebrates (early) their upcoming graduation at a remote vacation house that belongs to Michael's family.After a night of drinking and story telling, they retire for the evening. Nicole gets up to get a snack, and Walter grabs her. He offers her the choice of killing Carlos or being murdered herself. She chose the latter; Walter records the whole thing, then throws Nicole's corpse through a window onto Carlos. Michael tries to get his father's rifle from the basement, but Walter had already taken it, In its place he left many photos from the preceding two weeks. Walter calls them on a radio and tells him that they have to kill each other for any of them to survive (winner take all or all lose). Michael and Carlos go out to get the pistol in his father's boat. The boat has been sunk, and Carlos gets badly injured on the way back. Michael leaves Carlos there since Michael thought he was dead.What's left? It's classic elimination derby. Whom can one trust? Do we have to hear every detail from Walter's first killing spree?------Scores-------Cinematography: 10/10 Nicely shot, including the majority of the film which was shot in low-light.Sound: 8/10 No real problems.Acting: 3/10 Lousy. I've seen worse, but not too much worse.Screenplay: 3/10 Ordinary. The victims are very unimaginative, which eliminated most of their possibilities. As it was, the victims did most of the killer's work for him. The histrionics were not all that interesting, and did not illustrate motivations all that well. For instance, why did these 'friends' have so much energy devoted to killing each other in very messy, inefficient ways?
A formulaic American slasher movie, "Kill Theory" is populated by conveniently photogenic college students on vacation in some remote spot with a big house, blissfully unaware of impending danger. One by one each actor gets a chance to look bloody and mangled. Visual gore gets emphasized throughout. At the end, the festive party atmosphere is long gone and the group has been greatly reduced in number.Zillions of films have been made in the past with an almost identical premise. There's nothing original here. Thematic rationale pertains to how each character makes decisions affecting oneself and others in the group. But generally, this theme seems tacked on. And the script comes across as designed mostly for diversionary entertainment, and seems aimed at viewers under the age of twenty. Characters are stereotyped, cardboard cutouts. The dialogue tries to give them some depth, but it's tokenism and doesn't persuade.If you're looking for plot believability, look elsewhere. It isn't even particularly logical, though I suppose it doesn't really have to be. Plot holes abound. There's an absence of twists. And I found the ending disappointing.Actors do the best they can with the script they're given. And though not terrific, the acting overall is fairly good. A good slasher film requires effective editing. And "Kill Theory" at least has that.Aside from lack of originality, I would rate this film average for its genre. I've seen better, I've seen worse. If you don't expect too much, the film can be mildly enjoyable, but only if you are into slasher movies and lots of gore.
Kill Theory is a movie with a gruesome concept, though in any context its nothing more than just another slasher movie still its plot, I guess makes it interesting but disturbing also. A maniac returns from mental asylum to plot a dangerous game for a group of friends and force them to kill each other as that was the only mode of survival. I have seen hell lot movies of these kind where teenagers (with hot girls) falls in trap of killer, same here. Like most of the low budget horror movies, most of the things in the movie are unexplained, though there is plenty of gore and blood, which I consider the first priority of slasher flicks. The tagline of the movie 'Deep down we are all killers' make pretty sense as everyone cost their life more than any other. So Kill Theory is all about to prove whatever weirdest theories that exist anywhere in our mind.
First time director Chris Moore and first time screenplay writer Kelly C. Palmer surely aimed best at their first times and they have managed to do so. In their horror thriller Kill Theory, they have proved to have talent and vision. Kill Theory is a film skinned out of clichés and predictable plot twists and it gives a lot of joy to the admirers of smart plot twists. The film begins with a conversation of a psychiatrist and a mental patient (Kevin Gage) who was the only survivor of an accident of questionable circumstances. Nobody knows if he killed all those people or if it was an accident and he was actually the survivor. After this. we learn that he was released from the mental hospital due to his good behavior. Following this background information, a group of eight is introduced. They are best friends from college and they are planning to have a nice party to celebrate their upcoming graduation. They find a nice, secluded house and start their night. Expecting to have fun, they face the psychopath's trap. He pulls them in an involuntary and deadly game and says that they have to kill each other to survive, because there will only be one of them surviving and they should try to be this one. This sounds a little like SAW, but a distinction is that in this movie, they have to kill their best friends, girl friends, boyfriends and character development along with the plot is so good that you do not know what will happen next and who the sole survivor will be. This horror thriller is like a missing gem, precious and solid. Horror thriller fans would love this and be disappointed for not being able to see this one on a wide screen theater.