Definitely a B list style movie... It's not the greatest but it's interesting like the head line says... It's a good laugh for a horror style movie!
59 Reviews
Not the greatest but interesting
star_dust246830 November 2018
Fun, goofy movie!
sugarnspices18 October 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This happen to come on right when I turned on my TV and decided to give it a whirl.
I liked the uniqueness of this movie. It reminded me a little of Scream and The Final Girls (which if you haven't seen, I highly recommend). It is nice to have a movie not take itself too seriously and have a little fun poking fun of itself and the horror genre in general.
Best: Loved him calling Alyson "Chuck" to help him figure out what was going on. It was an homage to Jamie Kennedy's character in Scream. Someone to call out the cliches of movies, and know where to go or who to trust while a crazed killer is on the loose.
I liked the way they filmed the movie with the counting of how many people had been off'd, so you knew where you were in the time jumps and it was something a little different a fun.
Improvements: There isn't a whole lot I would have changed. It is a campy horror flick making fun of a campy horror flick. You don't expect to walk away with your mind blow or being too picky for that matter...but with that said:
I wish they would have spent a little more time and backstory on why the mask was, and make it a bit more scarier looking. It looked like Jim Carey's "The Mask" when not on his face. I also wish they wouldn't have spent as much time with him struggling to keep it on or putting it back on. The fuzzy in and out of the camera and the whispers got a bit annoying after the 7th time. We get it, it draws him to it but he doesn't want to wear it.
Maybe a bit more character development? I literally didn't care about anyone, not even the main guy/killer, Sam. I did like Alyson's character for more of the spunk and reminder of, once again, Scream's Jamie Kennedy.
Overall I found it a fun, light movie that had a semi new look on the poking fun of cliche horror movies. I could see making it a Halloween tradition!
I liked the uniqueness of this movie. It reminded me a little of Scream and The Final Girls (which if you haven't seen, I highly recommend). It is nice to have a movie not take itself too seriously and have a little fun poking fun of itself and the horror genre in general.
Best: Loved him calling Alyson "Chuck" to help him figure out what was going on. It was an homage to Jamie Kennedy's character in Scream. Someone to call out the cliches of movies, and know where to go or who to trust while a crazed killer is on the loose.
I liked the way they filmed the movie with the counting of how many people had been off'd, so you knew where you were in the time jumps and it was something a little different a fun.
Improvements: There isn't a whole lot I would have changed. It is a campy horror flick making fun of a campy horror flick. You don't expect to walk away with your mind blow or being too picky for that matter...but with that said:
I wish they would have spent a little more time and backstory on why the mask was, and make it a bit more scarier looking. It looked like Jim Carey's "The Mask" when not on his face. I also wish they wouldn't have spent as much time with him struggling to keep it on or putting it back on. The fuzzy in and out of the camera and the whispers got a bit annoying after the 7th time. We get it, it draws him to it but he doesn't want to wear it.
Maybe a bit more character development? I literally didn't care about anyone, not even the main guy/killer, Sam. I did like Alyson's character for more of the spunk and reminder of, once again, Scream's Jamie Kennedy.
Overall I found it a fun, light movie that had a semi new look on the poking fun of cliche horror movies. I could see making it a Halloween tradition!
Mixed feelings about this one
artvasc18 December 2018
I'm not going to spoil this film with my review, or cover the information already explained on the movie's page. There is gore, but nothing to keep up with what typical gorehounds (myself included) would be satisfied with. The gore and kills are very akin to the 80's slasher flicks on their first installments, before they became franchises notorious for gratuitous dismemberment and disturbing brutality (which is why we all loved them). This film has good (intentionally bad/b) acting and a very quirky vibe to it. It's not a 'bad' movie, but maybe I went into it a little too smart. The concept of the narrative follows a 'recap' situation. Every time some dialogue happens, there's a recap where someone explains something from earlier in the narrative. The only problem with this is, if you pay attention, they're just re-using footage you've seen from before and playing through the entire scene again. About 30 minutes of this movie, maybe more, are re-played scenes. It makes an hour and a half feel like two and a half hours for me. I started skipping the scenes, knowing it would be the same exact dialogues and camera angles. There's one scene that I think plays over four times in this movie, alone. If they had chosen different angles and re-shot the footage with more elaboration or details that we didn't already know, I would have given this a higher rating, but still expected more brutality, given that it's a throwback to the exploitation buzz of the 80's horror. It isn't a waste of time, but given how many horror films I've seen, it wasn't refreshing in my opinion. I still would check out anything the director works on, going forward.
It knows its stuff but...
nashw8223 March 2021
This pos-modern slasher knows its stuff but doesn't make it great. It's still pretty good though. It plays all the 80s Slasher tropes well, and even discusses them like Scream thanks to Alyson Hannigan's Randy-esque character Chuck (short for Charlotte). There's a camp in the woods, a masked killer, some gorgeous young counsellors, everything you need to have a good time. The premise is Given away fairly early on, but its still interesting to see whete they go from there. It does however get a little repetetive at times. But its definitely worth a watch for Slasher fans and meta humour fans too.
The 80s called. The line was constantly busy, though.
Coventry24 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Don't know if you noticed it too, but homages and references towards vintage 80s slasher movies in nowadays horror movies aren't just simple gimmicks anymore. They have evolved into a complete sub-genre of their own! Around the time of Wes Craven's "Scream" and the subsequent 10-15 years, it was a tremendous hype to refer to the delightful cliches and titles of the eighties, but these days and with films like "The Final Girls", "Summer of 84" and notably the hugely successful TV-series "Stranger Things", entire films are made to look as if they were coming straight from the heyday-decade of horror. I certainly cannot blame these writers and directors! Devoted genre fanatics like myself are attracted to the eighties like flies are attracted to ..., well, you know. Everything was so much better and simpler 30 years ago. Plots were dumb but effective, like summer camp counselors being chased through the woods by a machete-wielding maniac, girls were prettier and lewd, gore was unhinged and manually manufactured and advanced technologies - like mobile phones or social media - didn't exist. Of course every aspiring horror director nowadays wants to make films as entertaining and nostalgic as the ones he/she grew up with!
"You Might be the Killer" is a fun and occasionally quite clever piece of throwback-horror full of the above mentioned 80s characteristics, but it nevertheless takes place in a present-day setting. The over-enthusiast head-counselor Sam invited all his fellow counselors to spend the weekend and prepare for the upcoming summer camp at the remote location. On the first evening, around the campfire, he narrates the local urban legend of a poor lumberjack who made an eerie mask and went on to kill his family and the entire village. His grave and the mask are supposedly buried somewhere on the camp grounds, so it's not too difficult to guess what happens next. The innovative aspect of "You Might be the Killer" is the narrative structure. When confronted with the first dead bodies piling up around him, Sam telephones his best friend and bona-fide horror nerd Chuck and, through retelling the bloody events that took place, they establish that Sam is probably the killer himself. Some ideas and gimmicks in the script are dire and overly cliched, like the body count indicator which has been done numerous times before, but others are quite inventive. With the non-stop phone conversation between Sam and Chuck, co-writer/director Brett Simmons at least (deliberately?) ignores one dreadful cliche already: there's always a phone-signal and the battery doesn't die. The gore is excellent, the killer's mask and preferred weapon are vintage slasher material and most of these unknown (to me, at least) actresses like Brittany S. Hall, Jenna Harve, Sarah Catherine Bellamy and Carol Jean Wells are drop dead gorgeous (pun intended)
"You Might be the Killer" is a fun and occasionally quite clever piece of throwback-horror full of the above mentioned 80s characteristics, but it nevertheless takes place in a present-day setting. The over-enthusiast head-counselor Sam invited all his fellow counselors to spend the weekend and prepare for the upcoming summer camp at the remote location. On the first evening, around the campfire, he narrates the local urban legend of a poor lumberjack who made an eerie mask and went on to kill his family and the entire village. His grave and the mask are supposedly buried somewhere on the camp grounds, so it's not too difficult to guess what happens next. The innovative aspect of "You Might be the Killer" is the narrative structure. When confronted with the first dead bodies piling up around him, Sam telephones his best friend and bona-fide horror nerd Chuck and, through retelling the bloody events that took place, they establish that Sam is probably the killer himself. Some ideas and gimmicks in the script are dire and overly cliched, like the body count indicator which has been done numerous times before, but others are quite inventive. With the non-stop phone conversation between Sam and Chuck, co-writer/director Brett Simmons at least (deliberately?) ignores one dreadful cliche already: there's always a phone-signal and the battery doesn't die. The gore is excellent, the killer's mask and preferred weapon are vintage slasher material and most of these unknown (to me, at least) actresses like Brittany S. Hall, Jenna Harve, Sarah Catherine Bellamy and Carol Jean Wells are drop dead gorgeous (pun intended)
Student Bodies (1981) did it better
psychobabeone26 December 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This was a decent slasher movie with a lazy attempt at humor. The one-note gag of the body count got really old really fast with the non-linear storytelling, which caused the numbers to jump all over the place. The screen titles were the movie's only real joke. There were slight attempts at jokes in the dialogue here and there, but they just didn't pack any kind of punch. They could have had the mask hissing the occasional hilarious command at Sam, but mostly what I heard was "Kill, kill, kill..." If other things were said, the sound was too low and my speakers were turned all the way up.
There was no character development at all and I didn't care what happened to any of the characters, nor did I have any idea who they even were, other than Imani being Sam's ex, Steve having the nickname "The Kayak King" (a semi-lame joke that almost worked), and Jessie being the "pure" final girl. I read the Twitter conversation this was based on before viewing this movie and that was way more amusing. Overall, just an ok movie. Disappointing.
There was no character development at all and I didn't care what happened to any of the characters, nor did I have any idea who they even were, other than Imani being Sam's ex, Steve having the nickname "The Kayak King" (a semi-lame joke that almost worked), and Jessie being the "pure" final girl. I read the Twitter conversation this was based on before viewing this movie and that was way more amusing. Overall, just an ok movie. Disappointing.
Comedy/horror plus gore
michaelRokeefe3 November 2020
Warning: Spoilers
A camp councilor, Sam (Fran Kranz) finds himself fleeing from a masked killer before the camp season even opens. He realizes that he is covered in blood and his fellow counselors are scattered about camp mutilated. Either he was a close witness to the killings...or the killer, himself! He manages to call his horror enthusiast friend Chuck (Alyson Harrington) , for advise to get out of this mind bending situation. The silliness can be forgotten with the help of some exceptionally grizzly kill sequences.
Also in the cast are Jenna Harvey, Patrick R. Walker, Sara Catherine Bellamy, Bryan Price and Brittany S. Hall.
Also in the cast are Jenna Harvey, Patrick R. Walker, Sara Catherine Bellamy, Bryan Price and Brittany S. Hall.
Didn't hope for much BUT...
edwardbundy8 December 2018
Amateur Hour for 90 minutes!
kepeb8 March 2019
I was pretty excited when I stumbled upon this title. The style looked like fun and there have been some great 'homage with a twist' slashers over the last few years.
There is a reason this one went by the wayside.. It isn't good. The brief synopsis I read was accurate. An unoriginal slasher story premise but with the promise of some nostalgic/retro retro vibes and perhaps a surprise or two.
Unfortunately there are no surprises, only empty promises. The tired paint by numbers approach to horror and the Buzzfeed 'Top Ten Great visual story telling tips' were all followed closely, but with zero imagination. The overused VHS preset filters got old very quickly and the characters were predictable in a less than flattering way.
It was great to see Alyson Hannigan playing such a familiar character and this alone is probably the only reason I couldn't score this lower.
The movie plays like a college movie media project if the students were inexplicably given a rather large budget and a short time to finish. You have to ask yourself, how do some of these amateurs get greenlit in the first place?
There is a reason this one went by the wayside.. It isn't good. The brief synopsis I read was accurate. An unoriginal slasher story premise but with the promise of some nostalgic/retro retro vibes and perhaps a surprise or two.
Unfortunately there are no surprises, only empty promises. The tired paint by numbers approach to horror and the Buzzfeed 'Top Ten Great visual story telling tips' were all followed closely, but with zero imagination. The overused VHS preset filters got old very quickly and the characters were predictable in a less than flattering way.
It was great to see Alyson Hannigan playing such a familiar character and this alone is probably the only reason I couldn't score this lower.
The movie plays like a college movie media project if the students were inexplicably given a rather large budget and a short time to finish. You have to ask yourself, how do some of these amateurs get greenlit in the first place?
Surprisingly impressed
tattgirl84189 October 2018
Bottom line: This is your standard slasher film done in a different way.
By nature syfy channel original movies are pretty crap, because they're done cheaply and seemingly written by 12 year olds, but this one pleasantly surprised me. Granted, I had low expectations, but whereas most syfy originals I either turn off halfway through or fall asleep to, this one I stayed till the very end. I even went so far as to recommend it to friends. Imagine that! There's a fine line between doing a funny horror movie and doing a cheesy horror movie, and this one tread that line very well. If you're looking for an actual scary movie, this isn't it. But if you're in the mood for something fun and different, this one is a must watch.
By nature syfy channel original movies are pretty crap, because they're done cheaply and seemingly written by 12 year olds, but this one pleasantly surprised me. Granted, I had low expectations, but whereas most syfy originals I either turn off halfway through or fall asleep to, this one I stayed till the very end. I even went so far as to recommend it to friends. Imagine that! There's a fine line between doing a funny horror movie and doing a cheesy horror movie, and this one tread that line very well. If you're looking for an actual scary movie, this isn't it. But if you're in the mood for something fun and different, this one is a must watch.
Best thing since Scream!
Patient4444 December 2018
Waaait! I don't mean as good as Scream!
But! This one follows the rules of horror, it acknowledges them, it plays by them and also delivers! You see, it has a premise kinda similar to Scream, best and closest movie to do so that I've seen, even tho Cabin in the Woods managed a wonderful approach to this self aware genre, I think YMBtK is even more faithful. It pays homage to plenty of other horrors before it and even one that is my personal favorite but I am not going to ruin it for you guys, yet I am going to point it out just a little and see how many of you get it: When Hanging From A Tree! (soundtrack alone!)
Moving on: Nice acting, great actor picks, very comedically humorous dialogue as Michael Scott might say, and a lovely execution. All in all a MUST see to any horror fans out there, of course, bare in mind this more of a black comedy than pure horror. The death kills are ok, the usual slasher blunt force trauma or plain ol' stabs wrapped around a little mystery.
I didn't have this much fun since Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon .
Cheers!
But! This one follows the rules of horror, it acknowledges them, it plays by them and also delivers! You see, it has a premise kinda similar to Scream, best and closest movie to do so that I've seen, even tho Cabin in the Woods managed a wonderful approach to this self aware genre, I think YMBtK is even more faithful. It pays homage to plenty of other horrors before it and even one that is my personal favorite but I am not going to ruin it for you guys, yet I am going to point it out just a little and see how many of you get it: When Hanging From A Tree! (soundtrack alone!)
Moving on: Nice acting, great actor picks, very comedically humorous dialogue as Michael Scott might say, and a lovely execution. All in all a MUST see to any horror fans out there, of course, bare in mind this more of a black comedy than pure horror. The death kills are ok, the usual slasher blunt force trauma or plain ol' stabs wrapped around a little mystery.
I didn't have this much fun since Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon .
Cheers!
Final Girls + The Mask + Friday 13th - Fun = YMTK
pomeu-6385014 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is a quilt of cliches and rip offs. It almost exactly copies the much superior Final Girls by way of The Mask with every other slasher film thrown in. The jokes don't land and it's hard to care about any of the characters. Worst of all is the dialogue and the trite way the characters keep repeating themselves and explaining what we just saw on the screen. Go with the originals instead.
Not the best but not the worst.
dar041723 July 2019
Interesting take
bl-6397415 October 2020
An interesting take on the typical summer camp slasher movie genre. Not quite sure how I feel about this one. Well done special effects ( Big fan of Face Off so I can appreciate the work that went into them ). Somewhat disjointed in the scene changes, but it is worth a watch
ONE OF THE WORST FILMS
ezoelmansouri-5830630 October 2020
This movie is definitely not funny in any way, I can't believe that there's some horror fans find it good, they tried to do something but it ended up so stupid and boring, 'The Final Girls' is absolutely much better.
I need back the hour that I've wasted while watching this movie!!
Might be a future cult classic.
el727 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
You Might Be the Killer stars a bunch of your favorite horror TV actors in what amounts to both an homage and a send up of the slasher movie genre. We first meet Fran Kranz as protagonist Sam when he's running for his life in a classic camp counselor slasher scenario. Desperate for help, he calls his friend Chuck (Alyson Hanigan), a horror movie aficionado who works in a DVD rental store. The movie then proceeds to make fun of every slasher genre trope, from the reasons why the counselors can't call the police or leave the compound, to the wooden acting of the cannon fodder characters, to the creepy backstory behind the masked killer and why he stalks the camp, to even the ill-advised shenanigans that lead up to the killer's release from supernatural purgatory. However, the movie's pacing is a nonlinear style more typical of modern horror. There's also a hilarious running gag of a visual body-count. Basically, Sam has to come around to the idea that he might, in fact, be the masked killer, and then decide what to do from there with Chuck's long distance assistance. There's a subverted twist on the Final Girl trope that's one for the ages, and then a surprise final scene that had me chuckling. The gore effects are cheesy good. If you're looking for a traditional old school slasher, there are a few out there, but this is more of a spoof. If you're up for a spoof, definitely check this one out.
Boring and stupid
mazetastan9 December 2018
Really, really stupid movie. Wasting money and time. I read the good reviews about this movie, seems like movie employees writing a good review to keep this wasting time production high rate. Totally stupid. Never fall again.
Enjoyed it, new take on a horror
westy_captain10 April 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Enjoyed this but not enough to ever think about it after today.
Thought it was a new different take, like we follow the killer for once and root for him.
Sam was a good character and I was happy he sort of comes back at the very end!
Maybe might have been better if we spent more time developing characters at the start before we knew Sam was the killer like a "oh no moment" Sam's the killer compared to knowing he's the killer all along
All the deaths were pretty fun.
Thought it was a new different take, like we follow the killer for once and root for him.
Sam was a good character and I was happy he sort of comes back at the very end!
Maybe might have been better if we spent more time developing characters at the start before we knew Sam was the killer like a "oh no moment" Sam's the killer compared to knowing he's the killer all along
All the deaths were pretty fun.
Incredibly Predictable Ending
italianpride1717 July 2021
I just had to post how stupid the ending was to warn people from investing time into the movie. The whole point of this movie, to me, was to change up the genre. It did that up until the last 2 minutes and then decided to throw it out the window.
Pretty good
luzianabeauty11 October 2018
It was Decent
jaydalomas11 August 2022
Don't Believe the Fake Reviews!
arfdawg-19 March 2019
The average score is finally coming done, after real reviews are coming in. This movie is a bore. Not interesting, not funny, not crafty, not good.
It's a horrible mish mash of loud sounds screaming in place of an intelligent script.
It's a horrible mish mash of loud sounds screaming in place of an intelligent script.
Without a paddle
nogodnomasters12 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Within the first thirty seconds, you realize this is an homage spoof of slasher films. There is also an obscure reference to "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" for no reason other than to see if there is anyone left who remembers that film. There is zero character buildup before the first kill, in fact, the film starts with a bunch of camp counselors being dead which is never a bad thing. As it turns out, it is a Groot looking mask that is the real culprit. The comedy in the film comes from Chuck (Alyson Hannigan) perhaps a Chucky reference. She works at a pop culture nostalgia comic book store and advises Sam aka Cabin in the Woods Fran Kranz, by phone. She made the film.
Guide: No swearing sex or nudity...okay not the most accurate homage film
Guide: No swearing sex or nudity...okay not the most accurate homage film
I am Groot, Somebody stop mehhh!
donttouchmeprimate2 January 2019
That title will make more sense if you watch this film. I actually found this to be a really fun and new take on the horror/comedy genre, it'd very self aware and pokes fun at old horror tropes while still also trying to be serious when it needs to.
It's by no means "scary" but more of a camp slasher flick with a whole new formula.
I would just say that it's best not to put this on expecting scares or even any real big laughs, it's just fresh and keeps you watching.
Just bang it on with a beer and slob out.
I would just say that it's best not to put this on expecting scares or even any real big laughs, it's just fresh and keeps you watching.
Just bang it on with a beer and slob out.
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