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Serial Killers

Original title: Killers
  • 1996
  • TV-MA
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
1.4K
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Serial Killers (1996)
Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood and smiled.
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Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.

  • Director
    • Mike Mendez
  • Writers
    • Dave Larsen
    • Mike Mendez
  • Stars
    • Dave Larsen
    • David Gunn
    • Burke Morgan
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    1.4K
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    • Director
      • Mike Mendez
    • Writers
      • Dave Larsen
      • Mike Mendez
    • Stars
      • Dave Larsen
      • David Gunn
      • Burke Morgan
    • 42User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Dave Larsen
    • Odessa James
    David Gunn
    • Kyle James
    Burke Morgan
    • Charles Ryan
    • (as C.T. Miller)
    Damian Hoffer
    • Rea Ryan
    Wendy Latta
    Wendy Latta
    • Lorna McCoy
    Ivan Vertigo
    • Miller
    Chad Sommers
    • Bob
    Nanette Bianchi
    • Jami Ryan
    Renee Cohen
    • Jenny Ryan
    Ellis Moore
    Ellis Moore
    • Stanley
    Carol Baker
    • Beverly
    Meagan Cunningham
    • Reporter
    Timothy Patrick Quill
    • Mr. James
    Susan Laprelle
    • Mrs. James
    Joseph E. Jones-Marino
    • Patrolman
    • (as Joseph Jones-Marino)
    Marty Caton
    • U.S. Marshall #1
    Jason Eng
    • U.S. Marshall #2…
    Noah Nelson
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    • Director
      • Mike Mendez
    • Writers
      • Dave Larsen
      • Mike Mendez
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    8mmohr

    Somehow this movie stuck in my mind

    I saw a midnight premiere of this movie in college and it quickly disappeared, but it stuck in my head long after I forgot the title, and I'm lucky I re-found it. No one in that theater knew what to expect from this movie, and it start out as everyone's worst nightmare: a cheap, clichéd crime drama. A lot of people walked out after the first 20 minutes, but I was determined to stick it through. And I'm really glad I did.

    At the twist point in this movie, the horrible clichés and acting and directing of the first half feel like an amazingly underplayed setup to a punchline with actual humor and shock. Imagine "From Dusk till Dawn" if the vampire angle hadn't been completely ruined by over promotion.

    It's really rare that a movie seems to be one thing but then turns completely around halfway through into something 10x better, but this is one of those. It used the low expectations and low budget to it's own advantage and turned out a movie I never forgot.
    7hugor

    Completely outlandish and over the top! AWESOME!

    As far as my rating goes, I'm voting on the entertainment value of the movie, and not analyzing each category of the movie as far as cinematography, special effects, dialogs and stuff of the sort might go...

    The movie is just a completely amazing and over the top adventure, with outlandish plot twists, cheesy lines and dialogs. The characters are just totally unbelievable and over the top that you can't help loving them and most of the movie just feels like a completely delusional experience, but it's AWESOME! It just grips you to it, and entertains the living crap out of ya! Well, at least it made my night! I'd recommend it to any movie-watcher that just likes having a laugh, with some fun involved.

    AVOID if you take films too seriously!
    PIST-OFF

    90 minutes closer to my death

    this is bad. this is very bad. i had this recommended to me by several friend and i've cut off all subsequent communication with them in the three years since. it's that bad. the dialogue is so conveluted and eager to try to be cool that it takes on the dimensions of a beggar. The acting is probably is decent but given the material it's impossible to tell who's at fault for this train wreck. I was bored to a navel gazing introspection long before the sixty minute mark and from there it continues down hill. I'd rather watch Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer, or Vulgar, or Natural Born Killers, or anything but beaches.

    It's too bad Mike Mendez was involved hilarious budgetly challenged Bimbo Movie Bash. I wanted to like this movie but each terrible moment of celluloid was working against me.

    2 out of 10 file under the category of "so bad it skips being wonderfully bad and goes right back to just plain awful"
    7karenadamson

    worth a watch

    I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by this film too. I bought it in a bargain store today....£1 and was one of the best pounds I've ever spent. Well worth wasting away an hour or so. Almost gave up at first as one of the characters is a little irritating but I stuck with it. Some of the cinematography is excellent and it became something completely unexpected and fun in a bizarre and twisted way. It's the sort of film that you feel doesn't really know exactly what it wants to be and yet it works either in spite or because of that and as a woman I was worryingly drawn to the two brothers. Even if you don't find this film in a bargain bin somewhere it would still be worth spending a few pounds on.
    5Coventry

    Less fancy talk & pretension…more killing, please.

    Okay, I'm pretty sure that during the production of "Killers" director Mike Mendez and writer Dave Larsen heavily dreamed of becoming the next David Lynch... or maybe even the next Quentin Tarantino, but in order to achieve this, they should have put a little more thought in their extremely weird and dumb screenplay. Just what the hell is this supposed to be? A hard-boiled thriller, a demented black comedy or perhaps another social mockamentary pointing out to us how easily we glorify violence. The title priority refers to the notorious James brothers; two handsome but relentless maniacs sentenced to death for murdering their parents. They now escaped from their maximum-security cells and travel through California, until they take a middle-class family hostage in the quiet little town of Beatty. However, the Ryan family members aren't as defenseless as they seem. The women, Mrs. Ryan and her two teenage daughters, followed the James brothers' trial on television and developed a huge crush on their perpetrators. But that's still the least of their concerns, as the family also hides far crazier secrets. The sudden plot twist near the middle is extremely retarded, but at least it woke me up again! I already started dozing off since it looked like another pseudo-intellectual portrait about serial killers that seem to have all the knowledge in the world and yet use it to commit crimes. The dialogs are fluent, but they handle about everything you already heard before (in "Natural Born Killers") and some of the unexpected twists are really too crazy for words. There's plenty of violence but I still somehow expected "Killers" to be more grim and sadistic. It's mainly gunfire action and shouting, so I anticipated a little more physical violence, reminiscent to – for example – the torture scenes in "Reservoir Dogs". The plot holes and improbabilities are too numerous to mention, but the acting performances are decent and there's even some on screen sleaze to admire as well. "Killers" is not a total waste of time, but it's severely lacking personality and power to become a cult favorite.

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    • Trivia
      Nanette Bianchi's first of only two roles in her career.
    • Goofs
      The family are playing charades. The child indicates a movie, with three syllables, and does her mime. The mother guesses "The Naked Gun", which has four syllables.
    • Crazy credits
      Dedicated to the memory of Bonnie Parker, 1910-1934
    • Alternate versions
      There was an alternate soundtrack over the opening scene which only aired at the 1997 Sundance Film festival
    • Connections
      Referenced in Houses of the Unholy (2023)
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      In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

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      • 1h 36m(96 min)
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