“‘Totally Killer’ Proves We Should Let Julie Bowen Kick Ass More Often”

“Nahnatchka Khan’s Totally Killer opens on what reads as a concession to David Gordon Green’s Halloween: a slobberknocker between a masked maniac and a pseudo-final girl. He’s the Sweet Sixteen Killer, responsible for murdering three high school girls in 1987; she’s Pam, the one the killer passed over, and who’s looked over her shoulder ever since.

On Halloween 2023, he reemerges and breaks into her house, apparently intent on tying up loose ends, but she’s got his number: “I’ve been worried about being murdered since I was 16,” she shouts. “You thought I wouldn’t be prepared?” (Full piece at The Daily Beast.)

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