 | MOVIE DETAILS • Name: I Am Not a Serial Killer • Year: 2016 • Country: Ireland, UK • Director: Billy O’Brien • Main cast: Christopher Lloyd, Laura Fraser, Max Records • Runtime: 104 minutes • Production company: Floodland Pictures, Fantastic Films, Level 5 Films • TRAILER |
It is always nice to discover those movies that can put a smile on your face. Okay, maybe that smile and the feeling of being in the right place watching the right thing is something that can never happen again with such films. There are many other movies that every time you watch them, you enjoy them. Never like the first time, but there is always something to laugh about, to discover, to enjoy. Otherwise why would there be a reason to watch them again? With I Am Not a Serial Killer is yet to see if this is the kind of films that I can enjoy it in different levels every time I see it. But as a first time I had the pleasure to discover at 10 in the morning in a not very packed screening at the Sitges Film Festival 2016, this was one of the films that made me feel so very comfortable and glad that I could witness what the projector was displaying.
Maybe I am a nostalgic without a cure (or maybe it is because we get flooded with cinema crap so bad that a gem is very enjoyed when it’s witnessed), but to see again a movie shot on 16 mm film in 2016 is something that you don’t see every day. Although it’s one hundred percent placed in the present time, the constant aura of the 1990s is floating around the entire time, from the looks of the character to the calmed and totally non-urgent pace of the story. Besides the screen grain traveling with you along the whole movie thanks to the delightfully chosen film mentioned before. Then the plot, the story itself, very well written and taking the audience to the terrain where anything can happen. It’s been a long time I haven’t seen a movie where all your weirdest hopes along the running time become true. And finally, and maybe this is a personal matter of mine, it was a bliss to see how in a good shape Christopher Lloyd is, and what a sweet and calmed performance he gaves us. Because the last time I saw him on screen at the Piranha 3D (2010) and Piranha 3DD (2012) installments he was being a parody of what he used to be in the Back to the Future Trilogy (1985, 1899, 1990). But no, he is in a great shape and at his almost 80 years of age he’s working like a youngster.
But I am running out of space and I didn’t start yet to talk about I Am Not a Serial Killer. The film is placed in a very small Minnesota town, where a young smart kid who is a diagnosed sociopath by a local psychologist starts his own quest to unmask a serial killer who has been committing strange murders in the neighbourhood. This is the new movie from Ireland originary writer and director Billy O’Brien, who more than 10 years ago bedazzled us with the simple but effective Isolation (2005) and he was kind of in the unknown since then. Based on the homonymous novel by the fellow irishman Dan Wells, I Am Not a Serial Killer is a simple and extremelly delicated thriller with a delicious twist that should be enjoyed by any kind of good cinema.
Because it doesn’t matter if you are a romance lover, a blood thirst goer, a conspiratorian or just nostalgic from the good old films, this little piece has it all.
RATE: 7/10
IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4303340
