King-size, Bachman-size Stephen King. There is hardly anyone who does not know this name. An outstanding figure of world and American literature in general and the horror genre in particular, the great King of Horrors, a fan of whom it is not necessary to be, but it is simply impossible to deny his unconditional influence on mass culture. What happened to Stephen King back in 1999, a car accident within his mansion in Maine at this point in time has long been a parable in pagans and history, over which Stephen King himself, recovering and feeling a three-fold rush of inspiration, soon did not fail to ironize.
One of the manifestations of such irony in relation to that unfortunate incident and in fact the Author himself was released in 2012 low-budget horror with the provocative title "You can't kill Stephen King", filmed under the direction of the director-actor trio Ronnie Khalil, Monroe Mann and Jorge Valdez-Iga. This picture tells about an ordinary Bachman family who decided to relax in the woods in Maine near the house of Stephen King. Earlier in these forests there was a couple of brutal murders of young and not burdened with intelligence maidens, and therefore the Bachman family is not waiting for a brutal relaxation, but a brutal massacre. Meanwhile, over all this bloody spectacle will invisibly hover the spirit of creating his new work Stephen King.
The indisputable fact of this tape is that Khalil and Ko really love the work of Stephen King and literally overflowed their creation with a number of straightforward references to the work of the Great and the Terrible, and to his biography. The indisputable fact of this tape is that the film was conceived as a hilarious banter a la Troma-style. However, in the end, all good intentions went to waste, because the synopsis for the film turned out to be much more fun than the film itself, reminiscent of the extremely unsuccessful gag from “A Very Scary Movie” with the corresponding humor below the organs of childbearing. The film itself as a horror, if you completely remove the Kingoman fanfictions of Khalil and Co., is a banal thrash slasher that exploits the motives of Friday, 13 not in the most qualitative way, i.e. there are murders, but there is no raisins and audacity in them with hanging guts and stuffing heads on thick trees; eroticism is also available, but it is so insensitive and impotent that the film does not give any positive emotions at all. The weaving of the name of Stephen King and the regular play on the memorable tragic incident looks too deliberate in the picture.
Speaking of such trifles as directing, acting, the work of an operator or composer, I want to note only one thing: thank God, the film is not artisanal and not amateur. Of course, this creation is thrash, but thrash is different. You Can't Kill Stephen King is a bad movie, but it's not the worst. Sometimes the originality slips in the tape, the plot does not always affect narcotic idiocy, bordering on clinical cases of it, but there are much more disadvantages in the tape and if the tape is more ridiculous, hooliganism, bloodstain, then, quite possibly, it should be recommended for viewing or just familiarization. Therefore, this picture is not recommended for viewing, although there are clearly fans of such a strange thrash.
4 out of 10