Killer Body Count (2024) User Reviews

Horny teens must die!

[kyleallencole9 · 6/10 · 25 May 2024]

This tubi tv original film was a complete blast. Extremely sexy and graphic!

The director in this has put together a nice and nasty little slasher film with plenty of blood and gore and sex.

The plot focuses on two incestuous siblings who run a wilderness camp for teens whose parents sent them there to be "fixed". The teens who are normal sexually active teens must fight for their lives when religion is mixed with death.

The promiscuous group of teens find themselves being killed off one by one by a killer in devil masked and is dressed like a Monk.

The main girl, the sultry and confused Cammie, along with 8 other teens find themselves trapped within the confines of the camp and must fight for survival.

This one has plenty of sex and nudity to go around and the kill scenes were gruesome and gory!

Highly recommend this teen slasher romp!

Was That a Buddy Christ I Saw?

[talentest · 3/10 · 2 June 2024]

I had a whole more nuanced and thought out review I was making notes for while watching this, but about 45 mins in the film began to lose my interest and then it went double time in the last act to not try and get it back.

I also started watching this under the thought that this was a horror movie, not catching on that this was more of a snarky horror until part way though. When seeing the main character quickly 180 from being traumatized about seeing a boy being killed and then gaslit to seem crazy (for being the only person in the small cast to notice that 1 of the only 4 boys is missing) to creaming her shorts suddenly at the boys naked shower fun time scene.

So I added "comedy" to it's IMDb genre for others to be better aware going in.

And it's with scenarios like that, the movie goes from interesting to incredulous with tonal shifts that hiccup throughout the movie from any one scene to the next.

The main contributor to the jarring shifts in tone is how it has the cast (but mainly the lead actress) play their emotional moments with effective seriousness, displaying anguish and glassy eyes, but then the next scene is some ludicrous (comedy?) scenario -- usually involving those very same characters who were just being emotional -- that is in stark contrast to what happened before.

• ONE MORE EXAMPLE: -

Two girls see another girl get her face caved in with a bladed thurible and the main girl's boy crush get speared to death, then they run away from the killer into a cabin where they are suddenly... so rapt with passion they strip down to their undies while making out for some girl on girl time, as one girl fiddles the other one's faddle until she orgasms (which must've alerted the killer who Cosmo Kramer's inside not long after for some poking of his own).

And then a scene later it's devastatingly dramatic again when the main girl discovers a secret room with heartbreaking yada yada.

And no part of any of that example is ever played for laughs, which is what makes the "comedy" aspect so odd, or awkward.

What is the audience supposed to absorb from the story with such massive swings like that? Because of the dramatic scenes, the sudden goofball comedy is more jarring than funny; and because of the intermittent cartoonish campy bits the switch to serious emotional moments are just too awkward to invest in.

And by the end the movie just seems to have triple-downed on the absurdity with a bunch of stabbed, beaten, bleeding, traumatized, and injured people suddenly all at max health running around like the Avengers.

Props though for the DOGMA nod if that really was a box of Buddy Christ figurines in that one scene.

.................... MY RATING SCALE ....................

• 1. Reserved for Poorly Produced/Amateur Video
• 2. Utterly Terrible
• 3. Really Bad
• 4. Mediocre
• 5. Perfectly Average
• 6. Surprisingly Entertaining
• 7. Very Good
• 8. Incredibly Good
• 9. Exceptionally Great
• 10. Reserved for my Personal Favorites.

Fun, But Could Be Better

[jamaisj · 7/10 · 28 May 2024]

For those looking for a decent lightweight horror movie, this fits the bill.

The basic idea is to put teens in the woods to stop them from having sex, and then introduce the serial killer. Suffice it to say that the plan doesn't work but it does allow for some interesting anti-religious strikes.

The kills are actually pretty good, there is some decent character development even with the antagonists, and the plot is sort of solid. The plot twist actually works. Better yet, with one or two exceptions, the teens actually look like teens.

What makes this movie stand out is that there is no female nudity (it's only suggested and only a couple of times do you see scantily women) but almost every male character is nude or partially nude, and there are even some scenes where the men are presented as beefcake.

WTF? Litteraly

[shieldfire · 3/10 · 20 May 2024]

This is a mixed bag of trying to act, every slasher cliché under the sun, and a script with holes large enough to drive a truck through.

Possibly the only original twist is the explanation to what is going on in this film. But it isn't enough.

Cami is sent to a "catholic correctional facility" to be cured from being a teenager (see title). Cami's only crime being wanting to do the title. All the teenagers faults at the facility are hidden in the title. That you may not do according to the parents that sent them there.

And so they do it there instead.

Also unfortunately there is a madman on the loose at the place that offs teenagers left, right and center - while the two persons (siblings apparently) running the place doesn't seem to care. Having surrounded the place with electric fence and cliffs there is no where to run either.

Well, the acting is attrocious at times, the plot ... running for their lives from a madman, ending up in a not so hidden cabin, the two main female characters logical reaction to it all is to do the title. For some reason. Of course they get interrupted. One of them pushed into the cellar, the other protected by plot armour.

And so it continued all through the film. Particularly horrendous acting is provided by the siblings - lifted directly from any bad B-movie.

If you enjoy bad acting and partial nudity, by all means grab a few beers and crisps. Otherwise ...

Great!

[BandSAboutMovies · 7/10 · 18 May 2024]

I usually say things like, "This was good for a Tubi Original," but Killer Body Count is damn good for a slasher, much less one made in 2024.

Cami George (Cassiel Eatock-Winnik) gets caught making out -- beyond that, engaging in mutual masturbation, which she initiates -- with a boy in the storage room of her church. Her father blames the suicide death of her mother (Kira Wilkerson) for how she acts and Father Tim tells him that they will send her to the Beautiful Savior Treatment Center.

This place used to be a retreat for priests and a sleepaway camp where either mushrooms -- or a young priest who went insane and decided to kill young fornicators -- wiped out everyone staying there other than brother and sister Eugene (Bjorn Steinbach) and Tawny (Alex McGregor). They've started this camp to help Catholic boys and girls to grow up with less sin in their heart and that means isolating the sexes, locking them in, throwing away their phones and teaching them Jehoga, which gets rid of all that weird Eastern psychology in yoga.

Cami is now pretty much a captive, living along with Chris, Rob (Ethan Sanders), Bree, Ali (Khosi Ngema), Wyatt (Savana Tardieu), Mia (N'kone Mametja), Bree (Jessie Diepeveen), Riley (Atara Leigh) ,Dan -- who looks like Jesus if he drank kombucha -- and Kevin (Adam Lennox) as they breathe, worship and commit to protecting themselves from their sexual urges.

Except that these are teenagers and they all just want to get laid, so they just keep on doing it, even if whoever orgasms seems to get killed by a devil-masked slasher who lives in the woods. Or a ghost. Or the priest, who has remained there ever since he massacred everyone so long ago.

This is a movie filled with great dialogue, such as "I saw a guy you ****** get murdered by a guy in a devil mask. I'm far from OK." and "He was crushed to death. How is that an accident? God works in mysterious ways." It also doesn't forget that young people today are no longer constrained by heterosexual relationships and never shames them for having urges, even if that's all that Tawny seems to do, including making Cami kneel on rocks or slicing a crucifix into Wyatt's hand.

It's hard to make a slasher in the post-Scream era yet this gets so much right. The kills look incredible, the villains have a great modus operandi even if it's taken from so many giallo movies (no complaints) and the cast is uniformly attractive.

Director Danishka Esterhazy also made the remake of Slumber Party Massacre and The Banana Splits Movie. I enjoyed both of those, but I loved this. It was written by Jessica Landry, who also wrote the Tubi Original Obsessed to Death.

Slasher fans -- don't miss this one.

Yeesh. Avoid, no comedy, a little gore, mostly a bore

[jbar19 · 2/10 · 8 June 2024]

This is one of those movies that try to trick you into watching it.

It promised 1980s style slasher fun, with some sly comedy. It delivered neither.

This movie does have a slightly hidden agenda.

Slightly anti religious, slightly anti male, and obviously aimed at a certain female demographic.

It has a few cute allusions to older, classic horror movies (Phantasm) but it's really just a boring movie with a few PC messages in it, probably written by bitter women.

It has a slight, undeveloped twist at the end, that may have been able to move my rating up a bit, but it went nowhere.

If the movie was scary or funny, I wouldnt mind the messaging. But, no. Just a slow, ludicrous, unsatisfying waste of time. 2/10.

If you like slasher flicks this fits the bill and also knows what the female gaze means

[mnpollio · 9/10 · 21 May 2024]

I have long been a fan of slasher films... good ones. And heaven knows there are a glut are terrible ones out there. However, this latest entry from South African director Danishka Esterhazy more than fits the bill and checks off all of the correct boxes.

After the death of her mother, Cami and her dad deal with it in diverse ways. She explores her sexuality and he turns into a devout religious zealot. When she is caught experimenting with a young man, he packs her off to a religious rehab center for sex addicts surrounding by an electrified fence. Ironic considering that Cami doesn't have hardly any experience to qualify as an addict outside of intense curiosity. Although initially miserable, Cami strikes up a friendship with the other girls and falls head over heels in lust with one of the male "addicts". Then a killer in a devil mask starts stalking and offing the inmates.

The basic story is pretty straight forward for a slasher film, although I grant that a sex addict rehab center is original. And one has to love that for a center hoping to repress sexual urgings, even the dry counselors can't seem to restrain their baser instincts. However, the film has interesting flourishes about religion, repression, sexuality, independence, etc.

It also knows when to be tongue in cheek and when to be suspenseful. There is gore (perhaps a bit too much for my taste), but the humor balances it out. The ending is fine and I love the whole "Whore of Babylon" motto as a rallying cry.

The performances are largely fine, albeit some are pretty broad and border on scenery chewing, but it seems to work. The largely unknown South African cast do well in disguising any accents. Cassiel Eatock-Winnik is appealing, fun and gutsy as the lead, and she gets able support from the rest of the cast, especially Savana Tardeiu and N'kone Mametja. Alex McGregor and Bjorn Steinbach are the two head counselors, who are big on lecturing the inmates, while sneaking away to jump each other at inappropriate moments. Not a good thing considering that the dreaded devil masked killer usually shows up on the scene post-coitus.

Director Esterhazy effectively reinvented/paid homage to Slumber Party Massacre with her acclaimed remake a year or two ago. She does equally well here. The emphasis is far more on the female characters than the male. They are the focal points and the most developed and it pays off.

The women are all attractive, but are not really seen as sex objects or as victims. They have sex, but are unashamed about it. There are also a handful of young guys at the center. All of them beyond easy on the eyes. I particularly liked Brett Kruger as her love interest Dan, who enters framed by heavenly light while Cami stares gob-smacked.

It is also refreshing that Esterhazy understands what "the female gaze" means with Slumber Party Massacre and now this film. Other filmmakers throw the term around, but do not seem to understand what it is with it flying over the heads of both male filmmakers and female filmmakers hoping to win the approval of their male counterparts. In Slumber Party Massacre, the supporting male cast was definitely the eye candy, with the eye-popping Eden Classens delivering a memorable nude shower scene. Esterhazy ups the ante here. The first victim is one of the guys who post-coitus is strutting around naked in the woods before meeting his maker. A fun joke has the guys trying to peek at Cami after her arrival in the shower room, but she never gets undressed and just sits and cries, causing one of the dudes to lament that "this has never been so sad before". However, later when Cami is down because no one believes her about a killer on the loose, her friends escort her for a pick-me-up at a peephole outside of the men's shower room, where she gets to gander at the hot guys soaping up naked in the shower, including her object of lust Dan. I cannot understate how monumental it is that genre films like this are finally able to understand that young women are sexually curious as well and the films are willing to give the male cast the same treatment that women have been getting for the last 50 years.

The film is fun, sexy, gory and suspenseful. A perfect cocktail for a night at home in front of the TV. I hope to see more work like this from Esterhazy. If she becomes the new go-to person for slasher suspense and keeps up this quality, I won't be complaining. Particularly if she keeps telling it from the perspective of the female gaze.