A masked killer terrorizing a group of friends who are deeply familiar with horror stories? Now where have we heard that one before…
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn't exist.While the late Wes Craven’s original horror masterwork Scream has always cast a long shadow over the genre with its gleeful snark and the genuine fear it creates, there is something uniquely strange about how the Netflix horror Killer Book Club has made what feels like a largely humorless reimagining of that.
To its credit, the film does distinguish itself ever so slightly in what it draws from as its guessing game broadly points to the group’s shared interest in horror literature as opposed to cinema. Early conversations in their classes and the titular club they’ve formed to discuss horror will lightly reference general conventions of the genre as well as the place it holds in the public imagination.
A visit to a library to do research into what is happening? Sure, why not? A troubled backstory that gets shown in the first scene before flashing forward into the future? Well of course. A masked killer wielding a signature weapon who could be any of the characters? Go for it, just don’t expect this recycling of familiar tropes of the genre to work just because you wink a bit to the camera.
The Ending of 'Killer Book Club' Could Have Itself Used a Rewrite All this would be forgivable if the conclusion culminated in something more cutting or surprising. Instead, without giving anything away, it again feels exactly like Scream though without any of the more effectively executed terror. Even the one surprise it does pull out feels like a mimicry of those movies.
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