Kill Theory

Plot synopsis:
An unnamed man is sitting in a psychiatrist's office, being released from an insane asylum. Three years ago, he and three friends were mountain climbing, when an accident left them all suspended on one rope that was fraying. Being the closest to the top, the man chose to cut the rope to save himself and dropped the other three to their death. He says that he knows his actions were wrong, but that he had to make the choice he did if he wanted to survive. The doctor reminds him that while his actions are almost understandable, they resulted in death, something that is never acceptable. This causes the patient to become upset and more insistent that other people in the same situation would make the same choices as he did.
Meanwhile, seven young adults are driving to their friend Brent's house to celebrate their upcoming college graduation. While the group gets along for the most part, there are obvious moments of tension between people, most notably Amber trying to be with Michael despite his relationship with Jennifer. Amber briefly refers to unspecified events that imply she and Michael were intimate at one point. As the night progresses, Brent's stepsister Alex unexpectedly shows up. She and Brent argue, her calling Brent a spoiled rich kid and him calling her mother a gold-digger who only married his father for his money. The group convinces Brent to let Alex stay, and in the spirit of maintaining the cheery atmosphere, several people try to fix her up with another boy named Freddy.
They all party and later that night when everyone else is asleep, Nicole is grabbed by a strange man as she goes for a beer. Her body is then thrown through the window onto a sleeping Freddy, who screams and alerts the rest of the group. The letters 'TV' carved into her stomach indicates for them to watch a video taken earlier, where Nicole is given a gun and told to shoot the sleeping Carlos to save her own life. Nicole refuses and is killed. The unnamed man tells the seven on the video that they will have to kill each other until only one person remains. If more than one person is still alive at 6:00 am, he will kill everyone left.
The group panics and Brent and Carlos go to try to find a way to escape. The boat Brent showed Carlos earlier has been sunk, but the gun on board is in the keybox, so Brent takes it. Carlos seeks an ax and goes to get it, but is caught in a giant bear trap. Brent tries to help, but then leaves him, saying to the others that he died. Unbeknownst to him, the killer bandages Carlos and leaves him at the house. When he tells Jennifer that Brent left him, she loses all trust in Brent.
Now that everyone's back, Michael leads them to the van to try and escape, but the van is caught by something and can't move. Over the radio, the unnamed man says that they must now throw one person out to die or they will all die. Brent decides to throw the mortally injured Carlos out and he is shot through the head with the rifle stolen from the basement. Everyone splits up and runs back to the house. Brent and Amber separate and Brent is caught by the killer, but is let go when he promises to kill someone.
Alex ran off on her own to get her motorcycle, but the killer fires at her and she's forced to hide. Brent discovers her and drowns her in the lake. He sneaks back to the house to talk to Freddy alone, saying that the boat is okay and they can escape if he can get the gun from Michael. Freddy fakes a panic attack to get the gun and Brent comes in, but Amber reveals that the boat is inoperable. Freddy realizes he's been tricked and shoots Brent, and tries to force everyone else out of the house. Michael convinces Freddy to drop the gun, just as Brent skewers him through the head with a poker, killing him.
Brent grabs the gun and chases Michael and Jennifer down to the basement, but as they're cornered, Amber attacks Brent with a shovel and beats him to death. Jennifer grabs the gun and takes Michael upstairs. Amber finds a gun in her pill bag and draws on Jennifer, arguing with her over Michael, saying she loves him. It is revealed that Michael and Amber once slept together and that she has been in love with him ever since. Jennifer is not surprised by this news, saying that she forgave Michael when he confessed to the infidelity the day after it happened. Outraged, Jennifer shoots Amber in the stomach, but Michael takes them down in the basement as the unnamed man approaches. They hide under the staircase and shoot at the approaching figure, but it turns out to be Alex who survived Brent's first attack. She dies from the gunshot wounds. Jennifer then turns traitor and stabs Michael in the stomach, saying that she has to in order to survive. She tries to kill him, but Amber attacks her and strangles her to death. Amber crawls next to Michael, intent on staying with him until the end. As the clock chimes six and the man approaches, Michael kills himself in order to save Amber. As the man passes, Amber says she'll never be like him, and though he expresses skepticism, he leaves her alive and departs from the house.
The killer leaves a voice mail in the psychiatrist's office, saying he's proved his theory that desperate people would resort to murder and the camera pans along a photograph to reveal Brent was the doctor's son. The killer laughs and says he's now found closure.

Tags: revenge, murder, violence

Review:
A welcome new take on the slasher genre, Kill Theory starts out quite well, but soon deteriorates into TV teen-soap territory because of the ill thought out character relationships.The titular kill theory of the villain only works because the characters are pretty shallow and have a common backstory straight out of a bad Gossip Girl story strand.
What it DOES do, and well I might add, is take everything that has made slashers work in the past, and incorporate that into a very competently made modern slasher flick.One of the things I liked most about Kill Theory, is that there really isn't a main character.
You don't see the "Killer's" face until the end of the film, but it doesn't make it a big "Reveal" moment,and those of us who have been keeping up to date on slashers, will immediately recognize his voice.If you're thirsting for a slasher film, and if you're like me, and are sick of the "Saw" franchise, and it's imitators, give Kill Theory a shot.
Kill Theory is the best horror film i have seen in a long time.
Carly Pope fans are in for a disappointment as she is only featured in a picture (deleted scenes?) given the quality of the film it is a wonder that lions-gate has shelved this for so long since it could become the next Saw. The running time is somewhat short at about 80 minutes but the film makes up for that with its fast pacing..
Kill Theory is one of the best Horror films in ages.
After all, this is LionsGate.Kill Theory is about a group of 6 college friends who head off to a secluded vacation home for fun and...
I also couldn't believe the last-minute twist which is executed so well that I was left just gaping at the screen.The acting is good and so are the production values, so half the time you don't even feel like you're watching a DTV flick.Honestly, if LionsGate doesn't give this movie the treatment it deserves, then something's definitely outta wack.
If they can give wide releases to crap like Disaster Movie, then they should have no problem with this solid slasher flick.I highly recommend this movie if you're a fan of teen slice 'em ups or even if you're not.
Fans of the Saw series should like it also since it has quite a few similarities to those movies.Final Verdict: 10/10, 2009 looks set to be a good year for Horror with movies such as My Bloody Valentine 3-D (also distributed by LionsGate) and the reboot of Friday the 13th..
In spite of a potentially generous premise (demented killer doing none of the dirty work but instead relying upon victims to turn against one another), Kill Theory is nothing but a 75 min long streak of fits of hysteria and oh so much yelling and cursing.
OK...I think it was a cool movie..cool premise and a cool script for the most part.The actors, the gore, the setting, even the "scary" music was all good.However...why are teens always so well off?
Give it something special.Sure it 's nice to see tits and ass and pretty girls topless and buff guys, but it's boring..and overdone.I would love to see a 400 pound person who has a hard time walking up a flight of stairs come crashing down on somebody and crushing them underneath a table or something.Yes, sometimes even the "ugly" people can be interesting as well.Having the mute person try to scream...just flawless.Having the blind person try to defend themselves - true masterpiece.Havig different cultures aside from just the pretty white boys and girls makes it so much more interesting.And...having a slew of household weapons in a garage or basement is far more entertaining than just having a kid pull a gun and use up 15 shots.Imagine all the gore you can do with a circsaw or weed whacker; a tree pruner or a band saw or something that is used in a real day to day setting.Car tools, electrical cords, hair dryers....oh all the fun toys that we use on a daily basis which can mutilate us, decapitate us, burn us and over all do some nasty carnage.Even the simple thing as having a broomstick and a frying pan or a fireplace poker.Walk around the hardware store and take a good look at your next weapon of choice...it's so much more fun than just pulling a trigger.Using a butane torch, paint stripper, garden shears, pitchfork, vise grips and every other tool known to an is so much more intense rather than just a bullet to the gut or forehead.Guns are overused and for the people who have no skill or vision in writing.Really...let yourself go and become insane for a weekend...your last weapon will be a gun..
Kill Theory is a film that looked really bad in my opinion, the trailers were not very good and the film didn't get very good reviews and it honestly seemed like another torture porn, ,,Saw wannabe" However that is not what you get.
The thing that i didn't expect from the film was the psychological horror, which was very good.
I thought this was decent and better than expected bloody thriller with solid acting but this horror theme is very tiresome and recycled now and is no longer thrilling or scary.
I thought it was well paced and had ordinary but very brutal kills but what really stands out in this movie and what makes it interesting is the psychological mind games the characters play on each other and the hard decisions they make in order to survive this twisted cat and mouse game.
I does have better production values than previous slashers from after dark horrorfest but like most movies from that fest you won't even remember the name of it in a few years.
Overall it had an intriguing tagline, decent but as expected leads, ruthless violence and a harsh psychological, cat and mouse game the characters are forced to play and the final twist which is both the highlight of this otherwise forgettable thriller.
KILL THEORY has an interesting premise - which has been done many times before - but aside from one or two actors, the general cast is full of pretty boys and girls who were very amateurish actors.
How's this for a typical, bad, teen horror film: a bunch of horny, booze-swilling college kids meet up at a secluded house in the woods (with no cell phone reception, of course), spend the first fifteen minutes of the film saying stupid things to each other and are then menaced by a psycho killer whose motivation makes no sense.
This movie is an awesome teenage slasher film , which centers on a group of college friends who stay the weekend at a friends home deep in the wilderness for a weekend to remember, which becomes a bloody fight for survival.
Seriously, how do some people think they'll get noticed and earn lots of money and respect with such an average and formulaic movie such as this one.Yes, I'll admit that I'm definitely fed up at this point by horror/slasher movies that feature a group of young, perfect looking, college students.
Whenever you think someone is good and the movie is going to focus on him/her and treat him/her as the hero of the movie, he/she does something incredibly immoral and you start to no longer care for any of the characters and whether or not they are going to survive.But still, it remains a pretty decent made genre movie, that is certainly good looking and also features some nice gore and killings.
It doesn't save the movie, it just spices up things a little at times.And it's a real shame, since the movie gives you the feeling that it still could had been a pretty original and interesting one, had it done more with its concept and perhaps had some better written characters in it.
Then I watched it again last night and this time I knew what was going to happen so I thought it would be even worse, but then I watched it and it turned out to be one of my favorite movies.
Since I went in the first time with such high expectations, it kind of sucked because I wasn't "watching the movie".
They find themselves in a very difficult situation when a psychopathic killer gets in touch with them and plays a deadly game where the participants are forced to kill each other in order to survive.I found the plot to be good and very thrilling.
So if you're looking for some ordinary horror movie with a lot of killing, this movie would be a good candidate..
Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.I was pleasantly surprised to see Agnes Bruckner (who plays Jennifer) was in the cast, being a fan of "The Woods".
Hmmm.This movie is a lot like "Saw" (or maybe "Saw II") in that it has people forced to kill others rather than the madman doing the work himself.
Watching with friends, you can pick your favorite character and see if they are the one to be remaining.The twists and turns are here, too, and you never know who is dead until you are absolutely sure.
A formulaic American slasher movie, "Kill Theory" is populated by conveniently photogenic college students on vacation in some remote spot with a big house, blissfully unaware of impending danger.
And "Kill Theory" at least has that.Aside from lack of originality, I would rate this film average for its genre.
If you don't expect too much, the film can be mildly enjoyable, but only if you are into slasher movies and lots of gore..
This sounds a little like SAW, but a distinction is that in this movie, they have to kill their best friends, girl friends, boyfriends and character development along with the plot is so good that you do not know what will happen next and who the sole survivor will be.
I had that same hope watching this movie as a maniac tried to force friends to kill on another.There was a lot of intensity as the band of mates collaborated to escape.
I think the plot for the movie was decent twist on normal cabin in the woods movies There had some decent actors, who don't over act their scenes.There were decent Bloodly moment in this movie, they could have been more bloody for slasher movie.I felt this movie a bit too much like Donkey Punch that came year before, Which I didn't really like at all, (Not seen it that movie for while, May need to re-watch that, I didn't really like that at the time) I didn't like how the movie ended at all, I thought it decent twist on normal slasher movie but don't think there anything that really stood out their for this movie to get notice.
I honestly have no idea why this movie has such a low rate.It was one of the best movies I've seen recently especially because,let's face it,there are a lot of movies these days that suck.Finding a good movie to watch is like finding a needle in a haystack,and today I found it.I was entertained throughout the whole movie,not one bit was boring,and that's the whole point,isn't it?The acting was OK,it could have been better,but it was far from bad and the acting is I think the only reason why I didn't give this movie a 10.The movie was exciting,intense and the ending was unexpected,but not in an annoying way (when I say annoying I mean like one of those movies where it turns out that everything was just in the main character's mind,which has become totally expected because there are so many movies that end like that)..
The acting is good right up until the scenes where they are forced to use emotion then some of the actors are shaky.This movie is about a man who its just getting out of jail on a manslaughter charge.
His lawyer said normal people wouldn't make the same choice and this man set out to prove him wrong using a group of college kids as his test subjects.I actually really enjoyed this movie and I think it deserves more then a measly 5.6.
All I have to say is Kill Theory is a surprising movie.
Group of teenagers/young 20 somethings going away on some trip to a secluded area where cell service doesn't seem to work - you have the usual interaction between the characters to set up who is who, the usual make out sessions to show you who is coupled with who, a few remarks about things that happened prior to the trip you don't care about to give you back story and it's all just a waiting game until the villain strikes.
When they arrive, they find Alex, Brent's half sister (her Mother married his rich Father) who was also planning on staying at the home for the weekend so of course she joins the core group bringing the total number of people staying in the home to 8.The premise of the movie is that there is a deranged mad man who has apparently been stalking the main group for weeks who followed them to the home and has now demanded that by 6am the next morning only one of them be alive - they must kill each other to survive.
Kill Theory has a lot of blood and a lot of screaming but not a lot of good acting, not a lot of great dialogue and not a lot of realism given how some people die..or don't die.Daniel Franzese plays Freddy who, for me, was unbearably annoying throughout the film.
There is a twist at the end that was decent I guess but the majority of the film is your usual formulaic slasher stuff and none of it is spectacular.SPOILERS - I didn't have a problem when Brent was shot and then was able to get back up to kill Freddy because he was shot on his side and may not have been fatally wounded but just pretended he was.
That was plot motivated since Amber was the one who was going to survive at the end, not character driven because it makes no sense at all why Michael would kill himself just so that girl could live.The whole sequence at the end hurt my head it was so dumb..
The potentials for a fun weekend are there: nice babes, a lake and boat, plenty of beer ...and a gun.There are plenty of bare midriffs, suggestive talk then blood soaked clothing and various amputated human limbs.Some evil mastermind is watching over the entire scene and provides miscellaneous electronic communication via walkie talkies, video tapes and the like.The mastermind is trying to get the twenty-somethings to kill each other.
The people are killed one by one and you can pretty much predict who will die next.So, the movie isn't bad, it's just not anything new.
And, if you want to see something from this horror genre, there are better movies out there..
The characters they portrayed were strikingly similar to those in the 'Friday the 13th' interquel (though I'm fairly certain 'Kill Theory' was filmed first), including the group of pretty rich kids and the 'outsider' who enters on their good time.
There are some glaring problems and the story could've used a couple more twists & turns to keep it more exciting; but, overall, 'Kill Theory' is a strong thriller that can definitely hold its own in the modern horror game.
then you completely missed the entire point of the end of the movie, which by the way was a GREAT twist that I did not see coming...very well planned out.
Kill Theory is a movie with a gruesome concept, though in any context its nothing more than just another slasher movie still its plot, I guess makes it interesting but disturbing also.
A maniac returns from mental asylum to plot a dangerous game for a group of friends and force them to kill each other as that was the only mode of survival.
During the evening, the kids, who seemed to be in high spirits and anxious for the prominent future, will be given a choice, one will be able to survive while the others must perish, cut off as the killer's friends were, his testing a "kill theory" where he sees how much one values his/her life, willing to sacrifice their own in order to make it out alive.
Like the Saw movies and the genre as a whole where we see humankind's true nature when facing death first-hand, "Kill Theory" follows a select group of individuals and how they react to a crisis.
I think movies like "Kill Theory" and "Saw" series will always appeal to a certain crowd who enjoy seeing characters turn on each other, tearing each other apart through actions and words, while hoping to escape the killer's trap(s), falling prey to their own frailties and weaknesses, attempting to resolve a very difficult dilemma which has them in a stranglehold.
Eight college friends Brent, Amber, Michael, Jennifer, Freddi, Alex, Carlos, Nicole spend one last weekend together before graduating and going there separate ways.
And because the characters became well-defined, you actually started to care for all of them in one way or another and understand them.The main plot point that bugged me though is that we're supposed to accept at face value that the killer can foresee ALL of his preys' actions and can tell how each one is going to act and react, which is a bit far-fetched.
The ending has a couple of twists and turns, but I actually think that even knowing the twists, I still wouldn't mind watching KILL THEORY again.