Plot
After being complicit in a costume joke that ends in a fatal accident and a pact of silence, a group of young people will be threatened by an anonymous writer who wants to reveal his dark secret. Their stalker threatens to post a bloody horror novel based on them on social media. Each chapter one of them will die. While distrusting each other, the group will begin a fight for survival in the middle of the university campus. Any one of them could be the next victim, or the killer.
Cast
Unfamiliar with the creator or the cast, but the young bunch are a very mixed bag of what I hope are inexperienced actors as some are positively dreadful. Leading lady Veki Velilla was the stand out performance but still nothing notable.
Verdict
I grew up in the 80's and being a horror fanatic you can probably imagine how many slashers I watched! It was the generation for them after all. It was a genre which in truth pretty much died until Scream came out and made it hip again with modern trendy music, style and an attractive young cast. Thing is, though I thought the first couple were watchable enough they were rather uninspired and certainly aimed at people who hadn't seen all those that came before them. Scream 3 and beyond, pretty offensively colour by numbers.
Killer Book Club doesn't draw influence from Scream, it full on plagiarizes it except delivers dreadful kill sequences. From the cast, to the setting to the attempted style, to the killer motivations and to the big twist which pretty much every single Scream movie has as well
If you've seen a Scream film you've already seen this and I cannot stress how little I'm exaggerating! Replace the clown with ghostface and it would be indistinguishable!
The writers should be sued and quite frankly embarrassed at how little they made an effort here.
Rants
You know a common problem with slashers is the kills, there's only so many inventive ways you can have someone stabbed or bludgeoned but some movies step outside the box and offer us something great. Then there's movies that do generic uninspired copy and paste kills and that's what we have here while sprinkled with an even worse offender...........the cutaway kills type! Bad kills and off camera kills? For shame!
Breakdown.
Neat killer appearance
Unoriginal to offensive levels
Piss poor cast
Dreadful kills.
