Totally Killer
2023
**½
Director: Nahnatchka Khan
Cast: Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Charlie Gillespie, Lochlyn Munro, Troy L. Johnson, Liana Liberato, Kelcey Mawema, Stephi Chin Salvo, Anna Diaz, Ella Choi, Jeremy Monn-Djasgnar, Nathaniel Appiah, Jonathan Potts, Randall Park, Julie Bowen
When an infamous serial killer re-emerges in 2023, 17-year-old Jamie travels back in time to 1987, where she attempts to play a matchmaker to her own parents, catch the killer, and find her way back to the present day. Nahnatchka Khan's horror comedy delivers a likeable but desperately unoriginal mix of Scream and Back to the Future. There are some nice fish out of water elements about a woke 21st century teenager being stuck in the unPC 1980s, but the time travel part of the story is poorly conceived (two different high school girls build time machines) and the film's influences are a bit too obvious.
