Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- grotesque
- irreverent
- macabre
- halloween party
- cult movie night
What critics said
Critics broadly viewed the film as an entertaining, inventive horror comedy whose macabre premise and comic performances outweigh its modest production limitations.
What sets it apart
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The plot combines horrific deaths with a deliberately comic treatment of Ken's troubled daily life and small-town suspicion.
Sheriff Walt suspects Ken, and the plot emphasizes that the evidence appears to point directly toward him.
Ken discovers that he has an estranged daughter while the killings unfold around him.
The victims are people who helped put Ken in a mental hospital, linking the murders to his past trauma.
Films like Some Guy Who Kills People, and why
The Tripper
darkly comic small-town slasher premise with grotesque murders and an unlikely central suspect
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
horror comedy balancing murderous violence, eccentric characters, and absurd humor
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
cult horror comedy combining small-town suspicion, comic brutality, and troubled protagonists
The Cottage
blackly comic serial-killer mystery with stylized gore and outsider protagonists
Movie Details
- Director
- Jack Perez
- Release Date
- 2011-04-14
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 (118)
Cast
- Kevin Corrigan
- Barry Bostwick
- Karen Black
- Leo Fitzpatrick
- Ariel Gade
- Eric Price
- Lucy Davis
- Lou Beatty Jr.
- Janie Haddad Tompkins
- Ahmed Best
Common questions
- What is Some Guy Who Kills People about?
- A mentally fragile ice-cream-parlor worker becomes the center of a grotesque small-town murder mystery when his former tormentors begin dying one by one.
- What is Some Guy Who Kills People like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Some Guy Who Kills People as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Some Guy Who Kills People violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Some Guy Who Kills People as graphic.
- What did critics think of Some Guy Who Kills People?
- Critics broadly viewed the film as an entertaining, inventive horror comedy whose macabre premise and comic performances outweigh its modest production limitations.
- Which films are like Some Guy Who Kills People?
- Films with a similar feel include The Tripper, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, and The Cottage.
- How long is Some Guy Who Kills People?
- Some Guy Who Kills People runs 97 minutes.
