Killer Body Count

This is one of those movies that try to trick you into watching it.

It promised 1980s style slasher fun, with some sly comedy. It delivered neither.

This movie does have a slightly hidden agenda.

Slightly anti religious, slightly anti male, and obviously aimed at a certain female demographic.

It has a few cute allusions to older, classic horror movies (Phantasm) but it's really just a boring movie with a few PC messages in it, probably written by bitter women.

It has a slight, undeveloped twist at the end, that may have been able to move my rating up a bit, but it went nowhere.

If the movie was scary or funny, I wouldnt mind the messaging. But, no. Just a slow, ludicrous, unsatisfying waste of time. 2/10.

While I had never heard about the 2024 horror movie "Killer Body Count", of course I had to check it out, given my fascination and love with all things horror. I had very little expectations to the movie, truth be told, since it was a Tubi movie. But I still opted to watch what director Danishka Esterhazy had to offer.

The storyline in the movie was good, though there was a bit too much focus on showing off skin and sexual encounters. Sure, the storyline in the movie was a pretty straightforward and somewhat generic one for a slasher movie, but it had enough twists and oddities in it to make it noteworthy and watchable. Thumbs up to writer Jessica Landry for managing to churn out something more than just another generic slasher flick.

Everything is not all and well, though, because the movie does suffer from a somewhat sluggish pacing. Parts of the movie seems to take forever to go nowhere. And the obsession with showing off nudity or sexual encounters also dumbed down and slowed down the movie.

The acting performances in "Killer Body Count" was good. And I have to say that especially leading actress Cassiel Eatock-Winnik along with Savana Tardieu really carried the movie quite nicely.

I was rather surprised with the special effects in the movie. The effects were surprisingly good, and they really added a lot to the overall enjoyment of the movie.

"Killer Body Count" is a watchable movie, for sure, but not without its flaws. I enjoyed the movie for what it was, but it is hardly a movie that warrants more than just a single viewing.

My rating of director Danishka Esterhazy's 2024 movie "Killer Body Count" lands on a five out of ten stars.

The camera work and most of the acting is fine. There are certainly issues with budget and location. Part of it is due to the typical troupes used in modern feminist writings in full display here:

Church bad Church has conversion camps Men are horny, selfish, and inadequate Orgasms and sex are empowerment Men and religion keep us from experiencing our pleasure and full sexual experience Only through women can we be fully realized as a person

Yadda yadda blah blah blah.

It tries to be funny but it's not. It tries to make statements about society, but they're so hamfisted and typical that you groan. It has good gore. The writing is typical modern clichés that would only be entertaining to people who isolate themselves and avoid human interaction.

The target audience for this nonsense will be teenage girls and boys of a certain persuasion.

It follows the same trope as the Scream franchise, referencing other movies and using the cliched theme of teenage sex equals death.

There is a fair amount of male nudity (although nothing graphic) which caters for 'the female gaze'.

The movie is badly acted, shoddily directed and the cinematography and editing are perfunctory at best.

If you are an adult and are attracted to this kind of shtick then you should have moved on to a myriad of other teen slasher movies from the eighties onward. This is a watered down, disneyfied version of much better movies. Avoid.

For those looking for a decent lightweight horror movie, this fits the bill.

The basic idea is to put teens in the woods to stop them from having sex, and then introduce the serial killer. Suffice it to say that the plan doesn't work but it does allow for some interesting anti-religious strikes.

The kills are actually pretty good, there is some decent character development even with the antagonists, and the plot is sort of solid. The plot twist actually works. Better yet, with one or two exceptions, the teens actually look like teens.

What makes this movie stand out is that there is no female nudity (it's only suggested and only a couple of times do you see scantily women) but almost every male character is nude or partially nude, and there are even some scenes where the men are presented as beefcake.