On Monday, Blumhouse Productions gave us our first look into its upcoming horror comedy film titled Totally Killer, and you'd be forgiven for double checking whether you're reading about another movie that came out a while back.
The film follows 17-year-old Jamie who accidentally travels 35 years back in time after an encounter with the Sweet Sixteen Killer. The Sweet Sixteen Killer is a murderer who gruesomely killed three teens during Jamie's mother's youth and is now seeking to add a fourth victim in the present.
In the past, Jamie meets the teenage version of her mother. Then, the two work together to take down the Sweet Sixteen Killer and prevent them from ever murdering anybody. However, they are in a race against time as every second Jamie spends in the past increases her risk of being stuck there forever.
When Totally Killer's plot synopsis made it to Twitter, many people remarked that it is similar to another horror comedy film: 2015's The Final Girls. Todd Strauss-Schulson, the director of that film, felt the same way. Taking to his Twitter account, he remarked, "Didn't I already make this movie?" under a post about the Blumhouse project.
Strauss-Schulson's The Final Girls follows a young woman named Max. Three years after she loses her actress mother in a car accident, she and her friends are mysteriously transported into the world of a horror film. Coincidentally, that horror film was Max's mom's final feature before her death.