![]() the production values were pretty good (despite a deep seeded love of sepia) and the actors were competent. #THE 4CHAN SERIAL KILLER VIDEO MOVIE#And 1/2 of the whole movie is wasting useful story telling time through slow pacing, in what I can only imagine was an attempt to be "suspenseful." So, if you watch REAL carefully- you might see about 25 minutes of real movie in here. ![]() Maybe 1/3 of the rest is random real stories adapted (poorly). It leads you to wonder: how much new story is actually in this movie? It runs 85 minutes. And lastly, close to half the film seems to be spent on flashback re-tellings of random real life serial killers. And when they're not flat-out narrating, they're having the actors speak exposition to each other. You start feeling like you're watching a series of 15 minute long Twilight Zone episodes with the requisite intro and exit statements. The second issue is that they clearly have not mastered "show, don't tell." Having wasted dozens of minutes on people standing around, walking around, and sepia toned near-stills. It's incredible that the film is only 85 minutes, because it looks like they could have shortened it to 30. Vast portions of the film are spent watching cars drive, birds chirp, people doing various things with phones, and people just plain standing around. You ever hear how great directors help tell their story with every single frame of film? Now think of the opposite. The first issue is the pacing of the film. Even if it was, this would still be completely unentertaining. I don't think that was the filmmaker's intent and 2. If this moving was attempting to capture the abject boredom of having a compulsion to kill, it has succeeded admirably. Serial killers are people, and much of people's lives are somewhat boring. ![]()
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