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Review: Time To Kill (2014)
Time to Kill is a 2014 film about Sara (played by Ellie Church), who finds out she has 24 hours to live, and uses that time to (what else?) kill some people.
This is the kind of movie that kind of hurts my head to review. It’s bad, but that’s kind of the point. It never pretends to be anything that it’s not, but rather embraces its B-movie status wholeheartedly. It clearly has “grindhouse” in mind, and seems to aspire to be cut from the same cloth as movies like Ginger and others you’d see trailers for in the 42nd Street Forever series – only in more modern DIY form (though there is plenty of added graininess and whatnot).
If you don’t like tasteless no budget exploitation, then look elsewhere, but if you do, let’s just say the film opens with a woman giving herself a coathanger abortion and spends the majority of its runtime in a strip club. In between, Sara kills several people, severs a woman’s (Debbie Rochon, no less) hand, stuffing money into the bloody stump (the first time I’ve seen that), and rescues a young woman from an apparent rapist before taking her to a barn to get naked and screw around in a wash tub.
The score is effective at times, even if it sounds like a guy sitting in a room playing a cheap keyboard behind the camera. In fact, I’d say that adds to the charm if anything.
At one point it achieves something remotely like a Jim Van Bebber film. Other parts are reminiscent of low-budget music videos.
Other highlights include: a machete vagina stabbing; Sara puking in the toilet while a fat guy is taking a bath in a shower cap and eating a sandwich while talking about her abortion; and the aforementioned keyboard striking a frantic note as a woman delivers the line, “Summer sausage!”
A buzz of some sort would be encouraged when putting this one in (I was admittedly a few beers in when I started), but as long as you know the type of film you’re taking on going in, it should be pretty easy to settle in for the ride.
The runtime comes in at a cool hour and ten minutes, so the content doesn’t overstay its welcome as with many of these types of movies.
There’s plenty of comic relief throughout, including an intermission sequence involving “hot wiener sandwiches” (with “all breast meat”) and a woman rubbing condiments all over herself as well as a bit bout masturbating in public theaters. Like I said, the film isn’t trying to be anything that it’s not.
Time to Kill is directed by Brian Williams, and comes from Mostly Harmless Pictures. It’s being sold by Toetag Pictures, which is known for the August Underground series.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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