The character work between Lou and Val is the real highlight, along with the pitch-black humor. A Serial Killers Guide to Life, arguably one of the best dark comedies to come out of the British Isles in a few years, was recently made available in these United States and Canada on iTunes and Digital HD Monday, 13 January 2020. In Winterbottoms film, Reeves was dragged along by a deranged Amanda Plummer. Soon Val and Lou are traveling the English countryside. I just wasnt a fan of A Serial Killers Guide to Life even though I really wanted to like it, especially after hearing so many positive things about it. Consequently, because of this, she is seen as a doormat. At a different self-help guru's lecture, Lou sees a middle-aged women who strikes her attention. A self-help addict unwittingly finds herself on a killing spree with her unhinged life coach. If you are a life-coach you won't like it! The real highlight of the film is the interplay between Brayben and Roe. Download Watch Now A Serial Killer's Guide to Life 2019 Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Horror Available in: 720p.WEB 1080p.WEB WEB: same quality as BluRay Download Subtitles 18 92% - Critics 56% - Audience 5.0 Similar Movies Please enable your VPN when downloading torrents Metacritic Reviews. It seems clear that writer-director Roe holds a strong, likely personal grudge against self-help tutors, in order to create a movie which is largely based on showing their flaws, and then killing them off. Simply film, quite okay, mildly interesting as mentioned. Despite this constant diet of positive affirmations, Lou seems paralyzed, unable to make meaningful change in her life. Like several other Grimmfest films, A Serial Killer's Guide to Life is a debut feature for its writer/director, Staten Cousins-Roe, and he has created something very much his own here: the dry, sarcastic humor, the innocent inspired to find "empowerment" sure, we've seen these things before, but not combined like this. Lou is a pitiful woman that most people (including her overbearing mother) treat like garbage and she just takes it and tries to go on with her life. Your email address will not be published. All I want in life are simple home invasion slashers that run less than 90 minutes. Val urges Lou to kill her. [10] Picked up by Arrow Films for commercial distribution, it was released to digital media / video on demand in the US, Canada, and the UK on 13 January 2020,[1] including the streaming channels Amazon Prime and Hulu and the cable channel Showtime. Hence, a Our DoP, James Layton, helped source our camera. The film ends with a repeat of the opening scene of Lou, walking outdoors, wearing earbuds and listening to a recorded Knoah lecture. Harsh Light News is now available on the News360 website and app. Unfortunately for Lou, Vals a serial killer!. She later meets the woman, who introduces herself as Val Stone, a self-help teacher who believes she would be perfect for Lou. Synopsis Lou Farnt is a meek young Englishwoman with poor self-esteem, who is emotionally browbeaten by her harsh and demanding mother, with whom she lives. An unknown serial killer offing the favorites of Salem or Port Charles is a common storyline used on soaps, . 3.7 3 Ratings. The film welcomely digs its teeth into self-help gurus and New Age life coaches everything from Tree Huggers and primal howls in the wild; from a Laughter Yoga group to rebirthers; to a duo who trigger orgasms in the other using sound vibrations. Either she regards them as a curse on humanity with their vapid schemes, or she simply wants to dispose of the competition. Kickstarter funded, but confidently directed, handsomely shot and played with perfect pitch by the two leads, A Serial Killer's Guide to Life is a homegrown horror . Then during a visit to a birth-memory guru, and while Val waits in the hall, Lou begins to hallucinate. The basic plot kept reminding me of Michael Winterbottoms underrated Butterfly Kiss (1995). One aspect of the film didnt really work for me, and holds it back from a higher rating. This process is automatic. Please enable JavaScript on your browser and try again. There is nothing quite like a bloodcurdling film that makes one giggle and tremble at the same time. On iTunes in the UK: https://apple.co/2YbAz2d On iTunes in the US: https://apple.co/2YbAz2d On iTunes in Canada: https://apple.co/2YbAz2d Meet Lou Farnt: a 3. Wanting something better, Lou follows the teachings of various self-help gurus, but especially that of Chuck Knoah. . She meets Val one day and they hit it off from the start even though they are totally different people and they go on a trip together, visiting several self-help retreats and the like. A Serial Killer's Guide to Life is a . Ben Lloyd-Hughes . Lou Farnt (Brayben) is stuck in her life, with a dead-end job, no apparent friends to speak of, and still living with her domineering mother (Ball). If you appreciate low budget independent films then you'll have no reason for enjoying this one. It doesn't look like it was made with a ton of money and one can see where the corners were cut but it only adds to the brilliance, in my view. This unique little film does not get enough credit. Noah, a self-help coach, exudes confidence as he expresses his thoughts. | At home, Lou discusses this opportunity with her mother over dinner. Cleopatra Entertainment Unleashes The Long Dark Trail on Blu-ray/DVD! There is a significant body count in this dark comedy. https://modernhorrors.com/skinamarink-review. A Serial Killer's Guide to Life sports a really feisty premise, but its modest execution is its ultimate demise. A Serial Killer's Guide to Life accomplishes this task tenfold and is one of the funniest and most original British films in a long time. He does such a good job playing this type of character and I think the best part of the film is when Val and Lou finally meet him, and we find out what type of person her really is. The film has it's own unusual pace which gradually draws you into an increasingly crazy mindset where anything seems possible. Here Plummer has been replaced by an altogether much more socially assured Poppy Roe, although the story of a girl being dragged along on another girls murderous spree is essentially the same. Though that may reflect the films general lack of impact. For its one that most viewers will see coming, especially if they are familiar with a couple of cult movies from 1999 and 2003, the latter reviewed here. "Come see me if you want to change", Val tells Lou. [4][5] The film received favorable reviews.[2]. Comedy. Motivational speakers? Certainly the area of self help guru's (who seem to know everything, yet still need to make money telling everyone else their secrets) should be made fun of. A Serial Killers Guide To Life follows Lou Farnt (Katie Brayben): a 30-something, self-help addict who wants nothing more than to escape her overly controlling mother and the dead-end seaside town where she grew up. Serial murder meets self-help in A Serial Killer's Guide to Life - a darkly satirical cross between Thelma & Louise and Sightseers from the creative team behind the award-winning short film This Way Out (Best Comedy, Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2013). nice but fake and terribly nonsense in this society. Brayben as Lou is so very, very sad sack in films opening scenes that watching Roes film, one has a difficult time warming up to her. I thought she did a wonderful job in the role and she is probably the highlight of the film in my opinion. And a little murder a lot of murder. The indie horror comedy "A Serial Killer's Guide to Life" delivers plenty of jokes and blood at the expense of self help gurus who prey on the weak. These arent people who have wronged her in any way, more than the most superficial. A self-help addict unwittingly finds herself on a killing spree with her unhinged life coach. Even the stabs at the pitiful absurdities of self-help gurus wasn't nearly as compelling as it should or could have been; in that sense, the writing lacked inexcusably. Ironically, once Knoah realizes these are the two serial killers on the news, he says his publisher would just love their memoirs, and is on a phone call arranging a meeting when Val shoots him in the head. Where the film does become more interesting is the twist where it reveals [PLOT SPOILERS] (with a certain ambiguity) that Poppy Roes Val is actually an imaginary companion/split personality in Lous head. By contrast, Poppy Roe comes sharp-tongued and self-assured. Val says she is departing on a journey the next morning. You did pretty good for your first time. This isnt a cause I particularly care about: if not my cup of tea, Im sure some people find them helpful. All that changes when she meets Val (Poppy Roe, The Big Finish), an ambitious life . . document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Film Review: A Serial Killers Guide to Life (2019), Critically Acclaimed Shudder OriginalATTACHMENT Queer Jewish Folk-Horror Romance, Out on Shudder Feb 9, Radiance Films Resurrects Unseen French Thriller A WOMAN KILLS For Blu-ray Debut February 7, 2023, Trailer Debut and New Artwork | LOCKWOOD & CO. created by Joe Cornish | Launching on Netflix 27 January. Tomiwa Edun . Beautiful shot scenery and a star making performance from Poppy Roe. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921. . When James Franco made his soap opera debut in 2009, it was as a serial killer named Franco on ABC's General Hospital. At one of these seminars she meets Val (Poppy Rose) who is everything that Lou wants to be and is soon convinced to leave her life behind and join Val on the road. 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