Last month saw the release of three different movies with Killer in their names: Martin Scorsese’s evocative Killers of the Flower Moon, the time-travel slasher pic Totally Killer (in which “killer” is punning on 1980s slang), and the Michael Fassbender film simply called The Killer.
Totally Killer was technically released on September 28, and The Killer was only given a limited release on October 27 before its official release in a few days. But I’d say that’s close enough. It’s still all three films within a thirty-day span.
You could argue about whether it’s always smart marketing to release a film with a Killer title in the Halloween season, even if the movie is more serious drama than grinning scarefest. Or you could wonder whether this reflects any larger trends in Hollywood. Three more significant “Killer” films were also released this year, not during Halloween times: Killer Book Club, The Ritual Killer, and To Catch a Killer. And I didn’t see as much marketing for those.
But I don’t have any big conclusions to draw from this one. It’s just the kind of thing I notice and find funny, sometimes.
(I need a little more time than expected to put those Journal previews together, so those start tomorrow. Till then!)
I did the same thing - I saw three movies with "The" in the title. "The Lion King" "Meet The Parents" and "Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day".