I Am Not a Serial Killer
- heavy
- measured
- intense
Heavy, measured, measured horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →In a small Midwestern town, a troubled teen with homicidal tendencies must hunt down and destroy a supernatural killer while keeping his own inner demons at bay.
Our read · I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · mystery · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of I Am Not a Serial Killer
What watching it is actually like.
“You want small-town horror about a teen sociopath hunting something worse than him.”
Skip it tonight — Mortuary work, monster gore, and dark teen impulses are not your late-night mood.
The reading.
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