Under the Radar DVD of the Week: 'Some Guy Who Kills People'
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is:
“Some Guy Who Kills People”
With its blunt, eponymous title, its impressive cast and the producing clout of John Landis, “Some Guy Who Kills People” (due out on DVD Tuesday) slyly defies its slasher-comedy pedigree and rolls out as a surprisingly entertaining combination of humor, gore and heart.
Smartly directed by John Perez (“Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus”), the movie makes canny use of a cast that includes Kevin Corrigan as a mild-mannered serial killer, Karen Black as his shrewish mother, Barry Bostwick as a blowhard cop, Lucy Davis as the kind-hearted love interest and young Ariel Gade as the killer’s 11-year-old daughter.
The story centers on Corrigan’s meek Ken Boyd, a middle-aged guy just out of a mental hospital who works at a small-town ice cream parlor and lives with his brassy, bossy mother (Black). In high school, Ken was mercilessly tormented by cooler classmates, and now many of those classmates are turning up dead – dispatched by a masked killer in increasingly gruesome ways.
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