Psycho Killer | Film Review

 

After her husband is murdered, patrol officer Jane (Georgina Campbell) sets out to find the killer.

I knew this film would be bad. I saw the ratings, I read the description, I went into it with my eyes completely open. I mainly watched it as a fan of Georgina Campbell, but also because I do genuinely like to occasionally watch bad movies, even if it just makes me appreciate how good the good ones are.

So this was completely as expected.

For a start, you can kind of tell it's going to be bad with a name like this. This is the absolute worst title to give a film about a psycho killer.

The story itself isn't the most entertaining. It doesn't do enough to make us care about the characters. At the beginning I thought it might - the opening scene gave a lot of promise, but things quickly went downhill from there.

The weakest scenes are the scenes with the killer. Not only do they feel totally unrealistic, but they're not even entertaining to watch.

The movie tries to be both a detective movie and a slasher, and it fails at both. There's a reason why these genres are usually either kept separate, or when they're mixed, they lean heavily towards one side. Trying to give the detective and the killer equal airtime just doesn't work.

And then it decided to try and be a cult film, but thankfully by the time that happens you don't care anymore anyway.

The dialogue is, at points, laughably bad. Even if you were trying to take the characters and their world seriously, the movie doesn't really want to let you.

Georgina Campbell is the best thing about the film, without a doubt. I love that she's firmly establishing herself as a scream queen, and I've loved a lot of the past choices she's made, but this one just doesn't work.

So overall, this isn't one I'd recommend past the opening scene (which isn't even that good), and I can't imagine it's one I'd re-watch.

3/10