The Big Picture Just like Jamie Kennedy’s Randy Meeks taught us in the Scream franchise, there are always rules. Whether it’s sticking together vs. splitting up or saying you’ll “be right back,” there are plenty of dos and don'ts that will ensure a character’s survival or death.
In Totally Killer, Kiernan Shipka stars as Jamie, a teenager who, with the unwanted and unexpected help from a Gravitron, travels back in time to the ‘80s. Here, she stumbles upon a murderer known as The Sweet Sixteen Killer who terrorized her mother and friends as teenagers. Taking matters into her own hands, Jamie sets out to stop the slasher and return to the future before it’s too late.
“The thing that we wanted to do here, because people are so familiar with time travel and I feel like there are so many rules and people get into that, I wanted it to be that Kiernan is also aware of that,” the director explains, “So she’s even referencing, she goes back to 1987, but in ‘87, Back to the Future the movie has been released because that came out in ‘85.
Adding Her Own Spin Along with staying true to what audiences have come to expect from a time travel feature, Khan says that she was able to weave in some other bits and pieces to make Totally Killer stand out from the crowd. “I think the idea of just not getting too far down the wormhole but acknowledging there are multiple.