After being bullied by his peers, a high school teen is sent to the hospital and survives the encounter with the newfound ability to see the past or future of those he touches which forces him to use the abilities to save his friends when a savage killer begins stalking and killing his classmates.
This was a fairly enjoyable and likable slasher effort. Among the better aspects on display here is the intriguing setup that offers a somewhat intriguing setup mixing together several different elements into a teen slasher. The early setup of the early life within the friend group getting a chance to see their life together with a look at the different cliques in the school who are at odds with each other as the jocks bully the other guy and his friend, making for a nice bit of sympathy involving everything being brought up. As these incidents bring about the accident that reveals his ability to see their past or future based on touch and a generally great grounding within some highly topical LGBTQ commentary, it does a fun job of adding a solid paranormal bent to the typical teen slasher it's set up to be. The other enjoyable factor with this one is the way it handles the approach of the killer throughout here. The central concept of hiding the fact they've been killed by having the killer perform everything to make it appear as if it was a suicide allows for an intriguing hook that's pretty enjoyable and makes for not just some impressive setpieces but a hint of intelligence from the killing figure. As the stalking scenes offer up some intriguing scenes of the masked figure going through the school and taking them out before going through the process of setting everything up for the suicide appearance, there are plenty of likable factors here that go along with the wholly intriguing look of the killer to give the film a lot to like. There are a few drawbacks to this one that do hold it down. One of the main issues here is that the pacing to this one is the lackluster and draining pacing here which is quite bland for a majority of the running time. As it takes far too long spelling out the series of subplots involving the students and their lives following the incident as there's a lot to unpack with discovering it's presence and abilities, the first half plods along rather limply with a lot it has to spell out what's happening and it all comes at the expense of the stalking action normally found in these kinds of efforts which can be somewhat of a disappointment. The other real drawback to this one is a disturbing trend of off-screen kills that we then stumble upon later that leaves the whole thing excessively underwhelming repeating the same thing for most of its kills, keeping this one down overall.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.
