Netflix has just released an abundance of new movies, including “Killer Book Club” just in time for Halloween. The movie follows eight friends and writing students who have to fight for their lives when a killer clown begins picking them off, one by one, after the murder of one of their professors. It takes place in Madrid, with the original dialogue being in European Spanish.
As a huge fan of horror movies, “Killer Book Club” reminded me of other Netflix original horror movies, including the “Fear Street” trilogy. The beginning of the movie had a captivating introduction scene and left me expecting a completely different movie than the trailer. However, I was confused about how the introduction was relevant to the rest of the movie. It wasn’t brought up or mentioned again until close to the end, to the point where I forgot the scene even existed.
Although an interesting movie, I was lost for a lot of it because it felt rushed. “Killer Book Club” is a shorter-than-average movie, being only a little under an hour and 30 minutes long. There were a lot of scenes that didn’t seem properly thought through, just murder after murder.
Despite the movie feeling rushed, it was a movie that felt unpredictable. I enjoy horror movies because in most cases, they’re incredibly predictable, and I can usually figure out the story and antagonist during the movie. This movie threw me off. There were so many plot twists, that I had a hard time trying to figure out who the killer clown was.
It wasn’t until the end of the movie that everything started to add up for me. It was a big ‘that makes sense now’ moment for me. There were a lot of tiny details in the story that were portrayed as unimportant, and they played a huge role in the end. Like I said earlier, there were a lot of unexpected plot twists.
The plot aside, the visuals and graphics were great. The dimness of each scene added to the suspense. In the story, the killer clown writes about each murder in chapters and publishes them. The eight friends are the only ones who see the ongoing book and also receive texts from the clown. As the characters read the novel, they also had a double scene. The characters would narrate the chapter and the scene would show the murder as the dialogue played in the background. The scene would later cut to the alive characters as they’re trying to find the body of their dead friend. It made for an engaging clip because you would find out what happened to the characters with them.
Killer Book Club was very similar to a classic teenage murder mystery story. It’s not my favorite movie, but I would definitely watch it again. Make sure to watch Killer Book Club on Netflix this fall!
