How to Be a Serial Killer (2008) Review

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How to Be a Serial Killer (2008): Reviewed by Stuart Conover

While not the first movie to do so- How to Be a Serial Killer, directed and written by Luke Ricci, takes another look at a horror documentary styled film. Playing off the concept that what you are seeing is made to be viewed by an actual audience as if it were real and not just a movie. The slight twist on this concept that’s run with throughout the film though is that it is stylized to be a late night Infomercial. They appear to be trying to sell you on both the lifestyle and buying a video or training course on how to be a serial killer AND why it’s good for you. If you have ever seen the movie “Thank You For Smoking” and appreciated it, this should provide you the same kind of humor.

The tale begins by showing a regular video rental store clerk named Bart (Matthew Gray Gubler) who is dealing with a customer that is nothing short but an asshole towards him. While this is going we pan over to see Mike (Dameon Clarke) who is watching this interaction and quickly cut to his infomercial showing off that learning to be a serial killer can bring you to new heights of self esteem, greatness, and attempts to show you that everyone is doing it. While Mike watches the interaction between Bart and the customer unfold he quickly swoops in for the kill. At first it is figuratively as he sells Bart on the idea of being able to take a life into his own hand and soon it is demonstrated as literally as he kills the customer. From this point on it quickly develops into a friendship that is based on Mike’s outgoing dominant personality convincing Bart’s submissive personality to follow his lead.

This friendship lasts through the film as Mike teaches Bart how to live as he does. The teaching becomes an obsession for Mike that starts to hamper the facade of normality that he has developed from his girlfriend to his job. The walls he has put in place to hide the monster that he is start to slip as he appears to grow more open and less careful with his killing. The entire time he becomes more obsessed with his own darker side he is trying to turn Bart into being exactly what he is. He finally has someone he can be open with and it pleases him to no end.

The entire film jumps between the dark humor of Mike’s infomercial and the reality of what he is actually doing. It quickly shows though that he lives by a code of rules to both keep himself safe and ‘moral’ in who he kills. Yes any fan of the show Dexter will quickly be making a comparison of using the idea of a serial killer with a code for both keeping himself safe and moral, even so with the commercial feel it plays out with some originality to it. This movie unfortunately suffers from coming out when Dexter is so popular as to easily overshadow the original concepts that it has.

The infomercial shots are what end up embodying how Mike feels his actions should be carried out, even when the rules don’t agree with he is preaching to Bart. While he shows off all of the ways in his rules that you can kill someone, and in action actually kills people in a multitude of ways, he tells Bart that if he wants to stand out he needs a signature. It is the signature that will let him leave a mark ont he world and Mike does not have a signature he follows through with in every kill. There is no underlying method to his madness.

The overall verdict? How to Be a Serial Killer is a mix of seriousness and fun. At parts of the movie it can’t seem to decide which way to lean which causes the pacing to be slightly off. For the most part though it’s a fun watch if your looking for an entertaining satire of a serial killer mover or documentary. With it’s infomercial styled pitch it is hard pressed to call this one a true mockumentary but that is the closest description that can be made. It’s a fun watch, worth a rent at the very least.

A Video Collection of Six Teachers Behaving Badly

Teachers have gotten a bad rap lately. Their salaries are being slashed while corporate subsidies and handouts are being treated by their legislative handlers as golden egg laying platypuses. Their classrooms are being crammed with as many students as they can hold like scholastic sardines. Even the teachers’ pocketbooks are being pushed to the brink of exhaustion because of inadequate tax funding, lack of adequate supplies and the rising price of condoms and text message charges for “sexting” their students.

These rotten apples, however, haven’t made one of the world’s noblest professional any nobler. Here are six teachers behaving badly.

Teacher Uses Presidential Assassination Scenario to Teach Geometry

Geometry isn’t just hard. It’s one of those subjects that can reduce the strongest of men to tears of frustration and make you wish that isoceles triangles were tangible so you could use one of its equally angled points to stab each of your eyes out and still have another equally sharp point left over to finish the job. One teacher in Alabama tried to spice up his dull lecture on angles and trajectory by staging a mock scenario involving the assassination of President Barack Obama. Federal officials, particularly the U.S. Secret Service, were shocked to discover during the course of their investigation that Alabama has schools.

Teacher Calls Student “N—-”

One of the biggest challenges teachers have is finding a common bond with their students. Some of them try speaking to them as adults and treating them the same level of respect as they would towards any other human being. Others try to get down on their level by sleeping with them and they still don’t get the respect they deserve. One teacher tried bonding with his students by calling him a certain name. The incident earned him a ton of negative, worldwide publicity, one of the district’s longest suspensions and an opportunity to open for Michael Richards’ comeback tour.

Teacher Mocks Special Needs Student

Special education has come a long way from the days of yore when highly bred dogs got better attention in the classroom than mentally-challenged people. This teacher, however, took understanding to a new low by mocking one of his mentally-challenged students in front of the rest of his class. Frankly, I’m not sure the student was actually the one who suffered from a reduced capacity for logical thought since the teacher was being filmed the whole time by one of his students.

Teacher Turns to Porn

Every red blooded male has a fantasy about making out with an extremely hot and busty teacher. The school district gave their male students the world’s biggest cold shower when they fired this hot blonde for allegedly spending her second job modeling in a bikini and forcing her to turn to a life of s-ing and f-ing to make her ends meet (no pun intended, well, maybe a little).

Teacher Shows Up Drunk for Class

All this snarkiness may sound as though I have very little regard for our nation’s educators, but nothing could be further from the truth. My mom taught for years and given the amount of hard work and frustration she had to deal with, it’s a wonder she didn’t become a raging alcoholic with an uncontrollable desire to get as far away from reality as possible (I guess it skips a generation). At least that explains why this teacher had to be hauled away in handcuffs for showing up to work half in the bag and later passed out on her desk. I always knew that the teacher’s lounge had a fully stocked bar. I’m still waiting for the data to come back about the stripper pole and Jello wrestling pool.

Teachers Caught Getting Naked in Empty Classroom

Sex scandals and teachers are becoming so commonplace in modern society that even a tiny swing in the other direction is an improvement, both figuratively and physically which can kind of hurt. Don’t ask. These two female teachers got caught getting it on in a classroom by the world’s luckiest janitor during school hours, but the good news is that no students were involved. If they were allowed to teach it in schools, that’s what we would call “evolution.”

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