I am not a Serial Killer

[Mira M]

Saw this last night, it was part of the Irish Film Festival London + had a Q&A with the director (Billy O'Brien), screen writer (Christopher Hyde), cinematographer (Robbie Ryan) and one of the actors (Laura Fraser, previously played 'Lydia' from 'Breaking Bad'). Thought this movie was amazingly directed, great acting and the photography and music fantastic. I've not seen the main actor, Max Records in anything else - but there definitely a hint of the late Heath Ledger in his looks and performance - one to watch I think. For all you 'Back to the Future' fans, another main character was played by Christopher Lloyd, who was Emmet "Doc" Brown in that trilogy. Loved the intelligent storyline, great if you're interested in psychology and it had a cool mystery suspense element to it. However, I was not expecting the amount of gore that there was, having no previous knowledge of the story and not read the book by Dan Wells either . I know, I know - the title should have hinted at it, but as I'm not personally keen on horror or supernatural themes - I looked the genres up on some movie review websites + it said 'Thriller', 'Drama', 'Mystery Suspense'; then I was surprised when I saw "supernatural" in the program we got when we arrived. Wasn't a fan of the old film that it was shot on (Fuji 16mm, I think they said) - made to look like it was shot in the 70s or 80s. Maybe it's just me, but having lived through those decades and watching loads of films made like that already, the "retro" element was somewhat lost on me. I prefer modern, digital quality but the rest of the movie goers seemed to love it. Liked the black comedy touches, it had some very funny + witty moments, which lightened up + balanced the more gory parts. There was a certain feel of a Quentin Tarantino movie to it. And with a few tweaks to the screen play, more plot development + somewhat less gore, this could be a much more mainstream success than I think it's going to be. But definitely a cult classic and recommended as it stands.