Summary Totally Killer is a fresh take on the slasher genre that combines horror, comedy, and time travel to create a hilarious and thrilling movie experience.
The movie features a star-studded cast, including Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Julie Bowen, Randall Park, and more, who bring self-aware humor and heart to their characters.
In the process of bringing the script to life, the producers faced the challenge of creating big sets and action sequences on a modest budget, requiring strategic trimming of scenes to prioritize key moments.
From the studio behind hit horror-comedy mashups Freaky and Happy Death Day comes another fresh take on the slasher genre with Totally Killer. The Blumhouse-produced title centers on a teenager whose mother is killed by a serial killer who terrorized her small town almost 30 years before and finds a way to time travel back to the original killing spree, leading her to team up with the younger version of her mom and her friends to stop the killer and get back to the present before it’s too late.
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina alum Kiernan Shipka leads the star-studded Totally Killer cast alongside Olivia Holt, Julie Bowen, Randall Park, Lochlyn Munro, Charlie Gillespie, Liana Liberato, Kelcey Mawema, Stephi Cin-Salvo and Anna Diaz. Bringing the same self-aware humor as Blumhouse’s prior genre mashups for another hilarious and thrilling combo, the movie arrives just in time for the Halloween season.
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In anticipation of the movie’s release, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with producers Greg Gilreath and Adam Hendricks to discuss Totally Killer, the search for the perfect director for the script’s vision, and the challenge of trimming down scenes to accommodate larger set pieces.
Greg Gilreath & Adam Hendricks Talk Totally Killer
Screen Rant: Greg, I’m very excited to talk about Totally Killer. How did the script first come to you, and what about it really spoke to your interest to want to help produce it?
Greg Gilreath: Great questions, it was a script that was floating around at Amazon, and they were kind of up on it. We had partnered with Blumhouse and Amazon on this sort of small slate of films, and it was one that was in the mix. Just reading it, it was so apparent right away that this was something that could be really memorable, really fun, and really stand out and allow you to have a great viewing experience. A lot of these comedy-horror films are really reliant on self-referential [humor], sort of really understanding the depths of the slasher genre, or things like that. I really love that this was kind of an entry point into the into this thing, it was like,
Totally Killer Producers Talk Blumhouse’s Time Travel Slasher Thriller & Challenge Of Modest Budgets
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