Director: Christopher Wesley Moore
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
After a series of murders, a struggling writer with a problematic relationship comes to find his crippling sex addiction might save him when he gets caught up in the rampage by the rampaging killer and must team up with a good-natured sex worker to stop the madman and his killing spree.
Review:
Overall, there's a lot to like with this one. The biggest factor to be had with this one is the immensely likable and twisting storyline that manages to offer up a fantastic starting point for the crime spree while also making the leads we follow come together quite nicely. The main storyline for this one offers the kind of fun murder mystery taking place where it starts with the introduction to this couple trying to sort out their relationship as one tries to move on with his career while the other is hung up on his failed writing career and taking it out on a series of explicit sex cam sites that only further hamper their situation. Once it turns around and the entire thing becomes incredibly complicated by the growing realization of the connection between the victims and the main guy he contacts, this starts to explore a fun dynamic where everything starts to evolve into the relationship between them as everything starts to merge into this investigation between the dead bodies and the connection with this cam-site worker.
That provides the working basis for the series of attacks and stalking scenes to take place here. With everything being designed as a murder mystery in a traditional storyline approach that hides the identity of the killer throughout these sequences, there's a lot of fun to be had with the ambush of the victims taking place throughout here, as the scenes involving the hooded figure arriving unexpectedly and using their POV to hide the truth about what's going on. The stalking scenes that we get here, from the stalking scene stumbling upon the killer at their house, a fun apartment sequence that gets quite bloody, and the final big sequence that brings them together with the killer where the reveal is given and everything falls into place, all of which set up the great motivation and purpose of the whole thing where everything is immensely impressive trying to work out the clues from before that all give this one quite a lot to like.
There are a few drawbacks here that hold this one down. The main issue here is the simplistic pace where so much of what goes on comes off fun enough out of context but doesn't have the kind of continuous action necessary to come off the way it should. The middle section here is the biggest factor, stopping a lot of the action to bring up their relationship with the difference in their behavior and personality bringing them closer following a series of odd-couple interactions that point out how they've lived different lives rather than dealing with action. Listening to them discuss how open and carefree the cam-model is with his sex work history compared to the more uptight and buttoned-up lifestyle the architect is makes for a great time in isolation, yet never lands the action necessary to move it along the way it wants. The other issue here is that this middle section also means the film is a bit longer than it should be, trying to get through this convoluted story, making it a bit of a slog at times to play through at points, which ends up holding this one down.
Overview: ****/5
A really likable and enjoyable slasher throwback, there are a lot of worthwhile factors to like here, which makes this a fun time, as the few negative points aren’t as damaging as expected and hold this up. Those with an appreciation for this kind of genre effort, who enjoy these kinds of slasher throwbacks, or who are fans of the creative crew will have a lot to like here while most others should heed caution.
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