You might be the killer (4 Stars)

This is the fifth film in the Stuttgart Nights Festival.

This film, though not perfect, makes me very happy. It proves that there are film directors attempting to breathe new life into the teen slasher genre.

At a holiday camp in the woods a masked man is slaughtering the teenagers. Sam, the camp organiser, runs into a cabin and rings his friend Chuck (Alyson Hannigan) to ask her for help. She's an expert on slasher movies, so he thinks she can tell him what to do. She's the right person. She knows all the old films, and she knows the rules of who will survive and who will die. However, as she talks to him she suspects that Sam is the killer. That's ridiculous, he says, he's not a killer. But he's not so sure. Is it possible that he really is the killer without knowing it?

This is an excellent film told in a non linear fashion. We see the scenes that happened before Sam arrives in the cabin out of order, some of them more than once. Chuck stays on the phone with Sam for the whole film, telling him what to do next.

The film is very good. Maybe I should rate it higher. I'll decide next time I watch it.