Some Guy Who Kills People

A Sum 10 Films, Fight of Ireland Films and Litn-Up Films production. Produced by Ryan Levin, Michael Wormser, Micah Goldman. Executive producer, John Landis. Co-producers, Jack Perez, Kristin Holt. Directed by Jack Perez. Script, Ryan Levin.With: Kevin Corrigan, Craig Bostwick, Karen Black, Leo Fitzpatrick, Ariel Gade, Lucy Davis, Eric Cost, Lou Beatty Junior., Janie Haddad, Christopher May, Niko Nicotera, Jonathan Fraser, Britain Spellings, Lindsay Hollister, Regan Burns.Getting together slasher horror, delusional-superhero seriocomedy and dysfunctional family-reunion uplift, "Some Guy Who Kills People" has handful of original elements, but does a neat job yanking familiar ones into one enjoyable low-key stew. Kevin Corrigan stars just like a former mental patient whose return to society coincides getting a grotesque murder spree concentrating on people who'd cajolled him. "Guy" might've won limited theatrical to create handful of previously, but recent underperformance of comparable exercises like "Defendor" and "Super" suggest the likeliest shops for your one will probably be home-format, where sales prospects look decent. Ryan Levin's script has 34-year-old Ken (Corrigan) living like the most selected-on kid in class. Really he's gone back there for further just like a high-school janitor, otherwise working for just about any boorish ice-cream shop boss (Lou Beatty Junior.). He still lives with mother (Karen Black), who never misses an chance to assist help remind him of his insufficiencies, and contains the identical best/only friend in co-worker Irv (Leo Fitzpatrick). Indeed, really the only factor that's changed between secondary school now is always that Ken spent a lot of the interim in the mental ward, driven inside the edge having a murky trauma glimpsed in recurrent flashbacks. A gifted if unappreciated artist, he draws comicbooks of a superhero leading to vengeance on people who evade justice. These characteristics seem to become going to existence via grisly local killings whose connecting up thread the Sheriff (Craig Bostwick, pretty funny) and Deputy (Eric Cost) are slow to uncover. Meanwhile, Ken's capacity to continually keep a merchant account so low it's undercover is threatened on two fronts: First, adopted Brit Stephanie (Lucy Davis) virtually badgers him into dating her. Second, 11-year-old Amy (Ariel Gade), a daughter he never understood he'd, appears likely to assign him the daddy role to be able to escape her fundamentalist stepfather. Amy seems borderline-irritatingly precocious and chipper until we understand it is really an act she's as much a social misfit as her biological pa. Ken progressively gets warm to individuals intrusive new associations, though erstwhile childhood friends keep dying, as well as the information beginning to suspect him. A measure up for helmer Jack Perez after several cheesy cable photos (like "Mega Shark versus. Giant Octopus"), "Some Guy" is definitely crafted, showing up in the right balance between ironic horror/noir-fantasy tropes, the comedy mostly in the deadpan improv vein, and several formulaic but well-acquired sentimentality. In the rare lead role, Corrigan is bullets, supporting thesps solid (though Black may have known as it lower just a little). Tech package is nicely switched.Camera (color, HD), Shawn Maurer editor, Chris Conlee music, Ben Zarai, David The kitchen music managers, Patrick Belton, Sanaz Lavaedian production designer, Zach Bangma art director, Oliver Dear costume designer, Vania Ouzounova visual effects supervisor, Dear appear, David Alvarez appear designers, Zarai, The kitchen re-recording mixer, Zarai supervisory appear editors, David Barber, Zarai assistant director, Cory Manley casting, Lisa Essary. Examined on DVD, San Francisco Bay Area, November. 1, 2011. (In Fantasia, Screamfest, Sitges, Toronto During The Night film festivals.) Running time: 97 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com