Within the first five minutes of Overkill, Taylor (Carol Kim) is brutally murdered in her home. She is stabbed many times by a man inside her room. The man was there to kill her…not to rob, kidnap, or assault her. He came with his own big, sharp knife and knew that there would be nobody left to identify him. So why was the killer wearing a mask? To make him seem scary? The big knife did that for me! So that we don’t get an early reveal of the bad guy? Hitchcock proved years ago that you can have the villain on the screen without knowing who it is.
Anyway, that’s probably more about me overthinking things than anything else. So I’ve already disclosed that there is a nasty man with a sharp knife going around. What else is happening in Overkill? Taylor is the first person killed and is also the former college roommate of Cassidy (Alexis VanDyke). Cassidy hosts a true crime podcast and begins investigating the crime for a future episode. Before too long it she comes to a shocking realisation that she is the killer’s next target. Trapped within this deadly pursuit, Cassidy has to stay one step ahead if she hopes to survive to the closing credits.
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There are a variety of podcasters who are helping Cassie, giving the psycho some practice, or both! There are some detectives, Detective Vega (Brian Rich) and Detective Brant (Kit Douglas), doing their best to find out who the serial slicer is. And there is a psychoanalyst/therapist (I’m British, I don’t know the difference) Dr Joan Solomon (Siri Olsen) and her unstable patient Peter (Thomas Little). In amongst that lot are enough red herrings to perk up the entire population of Grimsby but they do their job and keep you guessing up to the end.
And you have writer/director George Kaplan to thank for that. It is an entertaining story and is reasonably well directed. There are a couple of scenes which may have benefited from another go but they are few and far between. So forgetting that you should prepare for a horror thriller that manages to combine tense storytelling with the suspense embodied within the true crime podcasts which feature throughout.
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Overkill gets a digital digital release on 18th November courtesy of Miracle Media.
Independent Film Grade: B
Former teacher, lecturer, homelessness administrator, pharmacy dispenser now happily retired, happily married, and a very happy granddad. I live next to the Mersey but on the side Daniel Craig and Taron Egerton come from rather than the side the Beatles came from!