Kill Theory (2010)

A man is convicted of manslaughter after cutting loose his climbing partners in order to save his life. To prove that his actions were sane, normal and not criminal he forces some college students into a similar situation. Kill the others to save your life.Kill Theory is a "one room" movie in which all of the events take place in either one room or one contained location. In this case the youngsters were in a woodsy vacation home but they were very much trapped.I am the hopeful for humanity type. In other words, even in the most dire and desperate situation I still hope for people to be courageous, kind, compassionate and resistant to devolving into uncivilized animals. 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. It wasn't long into the ordeal before their collective and individual character was revealed. It was a decent movie with some interesting food for thought.

The picture opens with Walter getting out of a psychiatric institution after three years for killing three of his friends. Walter and Karl discuss this for nuances. Karl wants to see how well Walter does in the next year, and schedules regular visits.The film transitions to another environment where Walter can another kill-the-group exercise. Brent and Amber, Michael and Jennifer, Carlos and Nicole, the heavy loner Freddie, and the biker girl Alex. The group celebrates (early) their upcoming graduation at a remote vacation house that belongs to Michael's family.After a night of drinking and story telling, they retire for the evening. Nicole gets up to get a snack, and Walter grabs her. He offers her the choice of killing Carlos or being murdered herself. She chose the latter; Walter records the whole thing, then throws Nicole's corpse through a window onto Carlos. Michael tries to get his father's rifle from the basement, but Walter had already taken it, In its place he left many photos from the preceding two weeks. Walter calls them on a radio and tells him that they have to kill each other for any of them to survive (winner take all or all lose). Michael and Carlos go out to get the pistol in his father's boat. The boat has been sunk, and Carlos gets badly injured on the way back. Michael leaves Carlos there since Michael thought he was dead.What's left? It's classic elimination derby. Whom can one trust? Do we have to hear every detail from Walter's first killing spree?------Scores-------Cinematography: 10/10 Nicely shot, including the majority of the film which was shot in low-light.Sound: 8/10 No real problems.Acting: 3/10 Lousy. I've seen worse, but not too much worse.Screenplay: 3/10 Ordinary. The victims are very unimaginative, which eliminated most of their possibilities. As it was, the victims did most of the killer's work for him. The histrionics were not all that interesting, and did not illustrate motivations all that well. For instance, why did these 'friends' have so much energy devoted to killing each other in very messy, inefficient ways?

A group of college students go to a distant summer house to celebrate their graduation and party hard throughout the night. 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. This movie is much like the horror movies from the late 90's and actually not that bad. The only negative thing is that it was pretty predictable at times. So if you're looking for some ordinary horror movie with a lot of killing, this movie would be a good candidate.

I was pleasantly surprised with "Kill Theory". Obviously I read the reviews before watching and I had some doubts because I don't really care for your everyday teen slasher films. This one was better than your average slasher.The beginning I feel was a little rushed but I understand they wanted to get the killers story quickly covered before moving onto bigger things. Unfortunately if you did not pay close attention to the first 10 min. 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. I always enjoy movies that star Agnes Bruckner and wish that there were more of them, her character is likable. The other characters were well formed and relatable with your typical good guy, bad guy of the group being obvious to the viewer. Some creative death scenes, even though some are not so believable. I don't know of many situations that you can be shot in the stomach of all areas and still be able to knock someone to the ground, sit on them and strangle them for several minutes. But it is a movie and I get the gore effect. Script was good and actors did a good job of portraying the story.Overall a good movie that I will watch again in the future, I would recommend it. :)