Kill Game (2018)

Three years after high school, a group of friends attend a funeral for one of their own.  Afterwards Blake, who is now a cop, tells them it appears Jimmy was murdered. As the group considers who would want to kill him, they wonder if it had something to do with the pranks they played in high school, one of which resulted in a friends death.

This group of idiots loved doing pranks except what they call pranks are cruel and criminal.  A few of the things they admit to and still laugh about are:

1. Forging a letter from a doctor to tell a mother her sick child has HIV
2. Shooting the valedictorian’s graduation gown and face with paintballs
3. Putting a firecracker in a bathroom stall while someone’s in it
4. Slipping adult pictures into a teachers slide projector for a class presentation
5. Convincing their girlfriend to seduce a coach so they can take photos and blackmail him
6. Drugging and burying Brandon in the sand while the tide is coming in, resulting in his death

So they killed one kid and traumatized countless others at their high school. How will they figure out who the killer is when they had so many victims? Jessie decides to apologize to Helen but it’s not a real apology.  It’s one of those where she says the words I’m sorry but takes no responsibility or acknowledges she’s done anything wrong.  When Helen angrily rebuffs her, Jessie smiles and condescendingly tells her to get over herself since it was just a funny prank.  

While they’re trying to figure out who might want them dead, Beth tells them she was approached by Liam, Brandon’s twin brother. They were unaware he had a brother. Liam is hoping Beth can tell him about Brandon since she knew him and was there when he died. The group thinks he may be the killer since it seems too much of a coincidence that he would show up and people involved in Brandon’s death are dying.

Based on their lack of remorse, you’ll want them all to die. The movie takes an odd tact when the killer murders innocent doctors, nurses and a receptionist in a hospital.  When it’s more upsetting to see peripheral characters died than the main characters, that seems like an odd choice. Couldn’t they have given us one person to root for?

Listen for the Wilhelm scream near the end of the film when a character gets his hand cut off as he’s reaching for the door.

Unrepentant dialogue

Enough with the drama, Helen. It was all in good fun.

Brandon had a way of seeing things. He liked to laugh. He had a sense of humor too.

Everyone involved in the death has a full page in the yearbook

Check out the text on the left. They forgot to replace
the filler text and  it’s mostly a list of different cuts of meat

Only Jimmy and Beth were in the flashbacks at
the beach so how did the others get involved? 

This isn’t how you should look when apologizing for
traumatizing someone with a cruel prank

Wearing sunglasses inside at night inside