I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)
Storyline
Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself “good” and “normal”. However, when a real monster shows up in his town he has to let his dark side out in order to stop it – but without his rules to keep him in check, he might be more dangerous than the monster he’s trying to kill.
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Cast
Max Records, Bruce Bohne, Laura Fraser, Christopher Lloyd, Joel Thingvall, Ryan J. Gilmer, Karl Geary, James Gaulke, Tim Russell, Matt Roy, Molly Gearen, William Todd-Jones, Morgan Rysso, Emmylou Barden, Lucy Lawton, Sally-Anne Hunt, Noah Odegaard, Michael Paul Levin, Patricia Enger, Elizabeth Belfiori, Dee Noah, Alan Holasek
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91
What sets I Am Not A Serial Killer apart from other takes on this “killers hunting killers” concept (Dexter, anyone?) is its naturalistic, character-based approach.
80
Empire
Breathing new life into the overfamiliar terrain of the serial killer, Irish director Billy O’Brien here both successfully reintroduces Max Records to the world, and elicits Christopher Lloyd’s best performance in a long time. His film deserves cult classic status at the very least.
75
Records does his best Lou Taylor Pucci in the lead role, crazed yet innocent (his turn from Where the Wild Things Are unavoidably brought to mind). He imbues John with a sense of longing, out-of-place and out-of-touch with social cues delivered his way.
60
The film meanders, and the climax descends into campy fantasy worthy of any ’80s B-movie, but Records is quietly winning.
60
Mr. Records (the child actor in “Where the Wild Things Are”) is nimble and unsentimental in playing a character who is playing at normal, supported by a solid cast in a well-filmed indie that doesn’t let its low budget get in the way of some true chills.
