Stanley (Vrgil McKee) is a dangerous serialkiller, and it's a good thing he has been locked away in a loonie bin for the last few years - but he also has a sizeable fanbase, people who would do anything to see him kill and/or be killed by him, including one of Stanley's guards (Blake Best), who sets him free but also all the other loonies to create a diversion, then watches his idol stab a woman (Jennifer Hall), before letting him take his life as well. Now authorities are sure that Stanley will head back to his hometown, where he killed most of his victims in the shed of his family's ranch - and even though the locals have been warned, who's going to stop him? Good girl Gina (Brittney Saylor)? Her best friend, party girl Lucille (Jennifer Pearl)? The town's self-proclaimed disco superstar (White Lavender Jones)? The wannabe slick librarian (Jake Kopronica)? Or the overly self confident coked up sheriff (Joe Casterline)? To put it another way, has the town even the ghost of a chance?

Now above all things, He Comes to Kill is one thing for sure, lots of fun. Basically it's a film fallen out of time, harking back to serialkiller and slasher movies from the 1980s, complete with characters döing stupid things just to make another kill happen, all guys having macho attitudes, and a silent, indestructible killer with only the flimsiest of motives. What mkes this work though is not so much that the film's taking itself not very seriously (and is at points pretty hilarious), but that it stays away from parodying things from a post-modern perspective but lets the jokes land rather genuinely. And yet, the film can also be pretty brutal when needed, and will undoubtedly greatly entertain the dedicated genre fan.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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