Killer Movie
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Killer Movie is a comedy horror
Comedy horror
Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literary and film genre, combining elements of comedy and horror fiction. The comedy horror genre almost always inevitably crosses over with the black comedy genre; and in some respects could be considered a subset of it.The short story "The Legend...

 film released in the United States in April 2008. The film premiered during the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...

 in New York City. It stars Paul Wesley
Paul Wesley
Paul Thomas Wasilewski , known professionally as Paul Wesley, is an American actor, best known for his roles as Stefan Salvatore in The CW TV series The Vampire Diaries and as Aaron Corbett in the ABC Family miniseries Fallen....

, Kaley Cuoco
Kaley Cuoco
Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American film and television actress. She first came to attention for her role as Bridget Hennessy on the Emmy Award-winning sitcom 8 Simple Rules. She later starred as Billie Jenkins on the final season of the supernatural drama series Charmed...

, Torrey DeVitto
Torrey DeVitto
Torrey Joel DeVitto is an American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for her roles as Zoe in the 2006 horror film I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, Karen Kerr in the short lived television series Beautiful People, Carrie in The CW series One Tree Hill, and most recently...

 and Leighton Meester
Leighton Meester
Leighton Marissa Meester is an American actress and singer. Meester first garnered attention for playing Blair Waldorf in the CW television series Gossip Girl...

 and was written and directed by Jeff Fisher. "Killer Movie" was Produced by Cornelia Ryan Taylor, Michael Sanchez and Jeff Fisher.

Plot

Celebrity Jake Tanner (Paul Wesley
Paul Wesley
Paul Thomas Wasilewski , known professionally as Paul Wesley, is an American actor, best known for his roles as Stefan Salvatore in The CW TV series The Vampire Diaries and as Aaron Corbett in the ABC Family miniseries Fallen....

) travels to a small town to film a reality tv-show about the towns hockey team. However, town local Jaynie (Leighton Meester
Leighton Meester
Leighton Marissa Meester is an American actress and singer. Meester first garnered attention for playing Blair Waldorf in the CW television series Gossip Girl...

) is soon murdered, being decapitated by a piece of wire hung up between two trees, but the murder is passed off as an accident. Jake meets with the shows producers, Lee (Cyia Batten
Cyia Batten
Cyia Batten is an American dancer, model and film/television actress as well as former Pussycat Dolls dance troupe. She has worked as a professional dancer all over the world for various projects including The Pussycat Dolls and Carmen Electra, Teatro Comunale di Firenze and others.She has had...

) and Phoebe (Torrey DeVitto
Torrey DeVitto
Torrey Joel DeVitto is an American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for her roles as Zoe in the 2006 horror film I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, Karen Kerr in the short lived television series Beautiful People, Carrie in The CW series One Tree Hill, and most recently...

) who now want to investigate the murder.

As Jake goes to the local high school, he meets Keir (Gloria Votsis
Gloria Votsis
Gloria Votsis is an actress of Greek descent, best known for her role as Alexandra Hunter on the US TV series White Collar.Gloria Votsis was born and raised in a big fat Greek family in upstate New York. At the age of seventeen she went and studied abroad, spending her Senior year of High School in...

), part of the shows crew, who believes Jaynie was murdered and suspects the hockey teams coach, Coach Carhartt (Stephen Pelinski). Jake meets the rest of the crew, including Mike (Jason London
Jason London
Jason Paul London is an American actor, best known for his role as Randall "Pink" Floyd in director Richard Linklater's film Dazed and Confused.-Personal life:...

), Daphne (Adriana DeMeo
Adriana DeMeo
-Early life:DeMeo graduated from Rutgers University in 2003. One of her classmates at Rutgers was Tom Pelphrey, with whom she had attended a special two-year performing arts program at Howell High School.-Filmography:*Lure .... KC...

), Luke (Al Santos) and Greg (Hal B. Klein) while also meeting the team captain, Vance (Andy Fischer-Price) and head cheerleader Erin (Maitland McConnell). Meanwhile, cheerleading coach Mrs Falls (Jennifer Murphy
Jennifer Murphy
Jennifer Murphy is an actress,beauty queen, reality television contestant and business woman.Murphy grew up in Medford, southern Oregon, with her eleven siblings...

) is murdered by a masked killer, who drags her into a circular saw. The crew interview Vance, who swears he will get vengance on whoever murdered Jaynie.

Controversial celebrity Blanca Champion (Kaley Cuoco
Kaley Cuoco
Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American film and television actress. She first came to attention for her role as Bridget Hennessy on the Emmy Award-winning sitcom 8 Simple Rules. She later starred as Billie Jenkins on the final season of the supernatural drama series Charmed...

) soon arrives with her assistant Nik (Robert Buckley
Robert Buckley
Robert Earl Buckley is an American actor, best known for his roles on the television series Lipstick Jungle and One Tree Hill....

) to work on the show. The crew travel to meet Jaynie's father, Coach Hansen (Bruce Bohne), who recently was released from prison for the murder of his wife. Hansen becomes angered however, and forces the crew to leave. While back at the school, Connor (Jackson Bond
Jackson Bond
Jackson Bond is an American actor. He starred in the 2007 film The Invasion, playing the part of Oliver and in the sitcom In Case of Emergency on ABC.-Life and career:...

) tells Jake that Jaynie's death was not an accident. That night, the crew go to a bar, and discover of Mrs Falls death, but again the locals pass the death off as an accident, before Coach Hansen turns up and warns the crew away from the town. The next day, Phoebe and Lee fall out as Lee is changing the show to center around the deaths of the locals. Nik is sent to Coach Hansens house to retrieve equipment that was left there previously. On arrival, Nik finds Coach Hansen dead, before the killer butchers Nik with a pickaxe.

After Erin and Blanca have an argument, Blanca attempts to leave the town but realizes there is no signal for mobile phones in the town. After the crew film a hockey match, the crew go to the bar, but Luke remains behind to work out. He is attacked by the killer, who chops off his hand before finally stabbing him to death. Daphne decides to leave the bar, but while on her way home she discovers Gregs car. She stops and investigates, only to find Gregs throat slit. The killer then turns up and kidnapps her.

The next day, the remaining crew discover of their missing co-workers, causing arguments between the survivors. Lee goes down to the boiler room where she finds the killer is filming the murders using the aid of a lipstick camera
Lipstick camera
A lipstick camera is an extremely small video camera which is approximately the size of a typical tube of lipstick. They are useful for capturing images that a conventional camera would not be able to capture due to size or weight constraints....

. Before she can warn the others though, the killer hangs her. After more filming, Jake, Blanca and Keir go back to a cabin to find the others. However, they find footage of Daphne being captured. They go back to the school and drop Blanca off so she can contact help on a Cb radio, while Jake and Keir go to where Daphne was captured. Meanwhile, Phoebe is in a local shop when she is attacked by the killer. She hides until Coach Carhartt arrives and the pair flee to the coaches car. As they are about to leave, the killer slices open the coaches neck, while Phoebe runs to the school. The killer catches up with her though and strangles her to death.

Jake and Keir discover the killers lair in the forest, but as they are about to leave Jake steps on a bear trap, so Keir leaves for help. Back at the school, Blanca fails to get help from the radio but finds Connor down in the boiler room, who shows Blanca a video the killer has made devoted to her. As the pair are leaving the school, they discover Daphne's dead body. Blanca soon becomes locked in a room, but Connor escapes. Keir arrives, but the killer quickly knocks her out, before finding Blanca. She escapes the room through the vents, but is confronted by the killer who is revealed to be an obsessed Mike, who murdered everyone to be close to her. Keir attempts to save Blanca, but Mike stabs her, however Jake, Vance and Connor arrive and shoot Mike.

The next morning, the police arrive and put Mikes body in a body bag. Jake finds out Keir survived being stabbed, however soon discovers Mike was wearing a bullet proof vest and has escaped.

Cast

  • Paul Wesley
    Paul Wesley
    Paul Thomas Wasilewski , known professionally as Paul Wesley, is an American actor, best known for his roles as Stefan Salvatore in The CW TV series The Vampire Diaries and as Aaron Corbett in the ABC Family miniseries Fallen....

     as Jake Tanner
  • Kaley Cuoco
    Kaley Cuoco
    Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American film and television actress. She first came to attention for her role as Bridget Hennessy on the Emmy Award-winning sitcom 8 Simple Rules. She later starred as Billie Jenkins on the final season of the supernatural drama series Charmed...

     as Blanca Champion
  • Gloria Votsis
    Gloria Votsis
    Gloria Votsis is an actress of Greek descent, best known for her role as Alexandra Hunter on the US TV series White Collar.Gloria Votsis was born and raised in a big fat Greek family in upstate New York. At the age of seventeen she went and studied abroad, spending her Senior year of High School in...

     as Keir
  • Torrey DeVitto
    Torrey DeVitto
    Torrey Joel DeVitto is an American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for her roles as Zoe in the 2006 horror film I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, Karen Kerr in the short lived television series Beautiful People, Carrie in The CW series One Tree Hill, and most recently...

     as Phoebe Hilldale
  • Jason London
    Jason London
    Jason Paul London is an American actor, best known for his role as Randall "Pink" Floyd in director Richard Linklater's film Dazed and Confused.-Personal life:...

     as Mike
  • Cyia Batten
    Cyia Batten
    Cyia Batten is an American dancer, model and film/television actress as well as former Pussycat Dolls dance troupe. She has worked as a professional dancer all over the world for various projects including The Pussycat Dolls and Carmen Electra, Teatro Comunale di Firenze and others.She has had...

     as Lee Tyson
  • Adriana DeMeo
    Adriana DeMeo
    -Early life:DeMeo graduated from Rutgers University in 2003. One of her classmates at Rutgers was Tom Pelphrey, with whom she had attended a special two-year performing arts program at Howell High School.-Filmography:*Lure .... KC...

     as Daphne
  • Al Santos as Luke
  • Nestor Carbonell
    Nestor Carbonell
    Nestor Gastón Carbonell is an American actor, known for portraying Richard Alpert in ABC's drama Lost and Mayor Anthony Garcia in the film The Dark Knight...

     as Seaton Brookstone
  • Hal B. Klein as Greg
  • Maitland McConnell as Erin Gorman
  • Robert Buckley
    Robert Buckley
    Robert Earl Buckley is an American actor, best known for his roles on the television series Lipstick Jungle and One Tree Hill....

     as Nik
  • Leighton Meester
    Leighton Meester
    Leighton Marissa Meester is an American actress and singer. Meester first garnered attention for playing Blair Waldorf in the CW television series Gossip Girl...

     as Jaynie Hansen
  • Andy Fischer-Price as Vance Carhartt
  • Stephen Pelinski as Coach Carhartt
  • Jackson Bond
    Jackson Bond
    Jackson Bond is an American actor. He starred in the 2007 film The Invasion, playing the part of Oliver and in the sitcom In Case of Emergency on ABC.-Life and career:...

     as Connor
  • J.C. Chasez as Ted Buckley
  • Jennifer Murphy
    Jennifer Murphy
    Jennifer Murphy is an actress,beauty queen, reality television contestant and business woman.Murphy grew up in Medford, southern Oregon, with her eleven siblings...

    as Mrs. Falls
  • Bruce Bohne as Coach Hansen

Release

The film originally had a release date in the summer of 2008. It was also released to Video One Demand in winter 2008. The film was released to a mixed critical reception.
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