A dark comedy about a serial killer training a man to be a serial killer. In an interesting twist, one of the actors from the tv show CRIMINAL MINDS (where he plays an FBI profiler) plays the young protege serial killer.
The story: Mike (Dameon Clarke) sees a young store clerk (Matthew Gray Gubler from CRIMINAL MINDS) getting abused by a customer and convines the clerks that what he needs to unleash his frustration is to become a serial killer. He begins teaching him what he needs to do to avoid detection and find people, but things take a bad turn when Mike's girlfriend finds his serial killer stash and he has to kill her, then the neighbors and then go on the run from the cops.
Was it good?
Eh. It wasn't bad but it never really got to the point of being funny. It all felt comedy-lite. For a comedy whose idea should be provokative it felt extremely tame, especially when you compare it to other serial killer-centric stories like HANNIBAL or DEXTER or even the classic 80's film HEATHERS. In fact there is a very similar movie called MAN BITES DOG about a film crew making a documentary following a serial killer which is much more outrageous and funnier.
*** NEUTRAL (not bad but not good enough to recommend) ***
Recommend instead: MAN BITES DOG or HEATHERS. Both grat, twisted dark comedies.
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