![]() For more on I Am Not A Serial Killer and to buy tickets, head to the official website. I Am Not A Serial Killer screens at The Sydney Underground Film Festival, which runs from September 15-18. If this is all we get, though, then we get a great little thriller with a distinctive voice, and it’s not like we get too many of those anyway. I Am Not A Serial Killer will probably top out at “cult classic” in terms of earnings and recognition, which is a shame, if for no other reason than author Wells has continued John’s literary exploits through a total of seven books, and a return to this milieu would be welcome. Animal cruelty, calling living things it. It’s a tightrope walk between icy detachment and sympathetic desperation, and he nails it completely. Max Records gives one of the best performances of the year in the creepy and darkly funny I Am Not A Serial Killer. John's mother is the town's only mortician and she allows her son to help her with the postmortems. His small Midwestern town begins to experience a series of brutal murders. ![]() ![]() Rarely seen since his turn as the child lead in Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, he brings to the table a tightly observed yet naturalistic performance as a young man who knows he’s missing some essential wiring, but feels driven to course correct for the sake of those around him anyway. John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records) is a high school student with an unhealthy obsession with serial killers. All eyes will probably be on the great Christopher Lloyd as Mr Crowley, John’s neighbour and prime suspect, but Records himself is great. I Am Not A serial Killer settles on a soft bu constant creepiness that occasionally flares up into something greater.ġ6mm film stock and a believably grim location shoot lend the film plenty of verisimilitude, but it’s the cast that really carry it home. There’s also genuine horror while fare like Dexter of even Hannibal get by more on grand guignol spectacle than anything genuinely unsettling. When he has to confront a danger outside. ![]() There’s humour here, but also pathos – best evidenced by the scene where John, a bullied outcast at school, explains to one of his tormentors exactly how much mental effort it takes not to murder him. John Wayne Cleaver lives a life governed by rigid rules and practices. The obvious parallel here is Dexter, and there are more than a few commonalities like the popular Floridian vigilante, John lives by a code to keep his evil impulses in check, and even has a professional connection to death – while Dexter was a blood spatter tech, John’s harried single mother (Laura Fraser) is a mortician, and he spends his spare time helping her prep corpses for display and disposal.īut Irish director Billy O’Brien’s film is more nuanced than that. The problem is that John himself is a diagnosed sociopath, and fears that he himself is already irrevocably set on the path to murder. Fearless fashion, music, art, film, politics and ideas from todays bleeding edge. Adapted from the 2009 YA thriller novel by Dan Wells, I Am Not A Serial Killer sees a troubled teen, John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records) playing sleuth, trying to track down the serial killer who is stalking his sleepy, snowbound, Midwestern town. Youth and pop culture provocateurs since 1991. ![]()
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