Sunday, April 30, 2023

Time to Kill (2018)

Aka Sant Marti

Fede and Rafa are heading to Rockfest when they stop to pick up two female hitchhikers.  Shortly afterwards their van breaks down and a local gives them a ride to Sant Marti where he says there is a phone in the bar.  However he lied. Since they can’t get their van fixed that day, they opt to spend the night in the hostel.

Meanwhile a singer and his driver are also heading to Rockfest.  These two unlikable characters subject us to a long pointless unnecessary story. They end up at the same bar in Sant Marti after getting lost.

The town is creepy and the locals are weird. One of the guys talks in a voice that would be at home if he were a Munchkin. The town used to have a festival where they slaughtered a pig for winter. So you know something icky is going on in this weird little town.  And our visitors aren’t being the most gracious guests. Some of them are drunkenly insulting the townsfolk.

At one point Fede sees a giggling little girl who runs away.  He chases after her. At each corner, she giggles and runs off. Why is he running after her? What is the end game?  He follows her to an abandoned building.  Stop Fede, stop! But he goes into the building and finds a movie theater playing Plan 9 From Outer Space. The theater’s full of manikins.  Does Fede turn around? Nope, he keeps going further.  Nothing good can come from follow a giggling child who is always one block ahead of you and disappears around a corner in a creepy isolated town.

The trailer for this movie uses the music from iMovie’s horror template, which should have been a sign.  

Ridiculous dialogue

Dude, I was shit scared.

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