Totally Killer continues Kiernan Shipka‘s love for all things horror. After her stand-out performance in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and then guest starring in Riverdale as the same character, she’s not giving up all things spooky. She’s just hitting it from a different angle. And Totally Killer seems to be just that when you take into consideration that it’s about catching a serial killer but there’s time travel involved.
To set the stage, we have 17-year-old Jamie, played by Shipka. She’s rebellious, of course, and ignores her mother’s warning around Halloween. As expected, things go wrong and she comes face to mask with the monster who took the lives of three teens 35 years ago. This leads to her, now stay with me here, time traveling into the past and then teaming up with a teenage version of her mom to save the day.
Oh, and the photos? Well, they are terrifying all on their own. But they do have the flare that comes with 80’s movies. And from the outfits to the hair, it’s all there.
Read the synopsis for Totally Killer below:
35 years after the shocking murder of three teens, the infamous “Sweet Sixteen Killer“ returns on Halloween night to claim a fourth victim. 17-year-old Jamie (Kiernan Shipka) ignores her overprotective mom’s (Julie Bowen) warning and comes face to face with the masked maniac and on the run for her life, accidentally time travels back to 1987, the year of the original killings. Forced to navigate the unfamiliar and outrageous culture of the 1980s, Jamie teams up with her teen mom (Olivia Holt) to take down the killer once and for all before she’s stuck in the past forever.
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This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, Totally Killer being covered here wouldn’t exist.
