Kristy is a great slasher film by director Olly Blackburn, starring Hayley Bennett as the lead. Let me start this review by saying I really, really enjoyed this movie. It's a straight forward slasher flick with a tightly written script, without a single dull moment in it.
The premise is simple but different enough that it will stand out amongst others like it, a college student named Justine is alone on her university campus over thanksgiving when a group of what are essentially snuff-film cultists seek out to murder her and film the process.
The cult themselves are really reminiscent of the gangs of lunatics in the early 2000's ps2 game Manhunt, which was definitely an influence for this movie clearly evidenced by the killers thrown together masks made from silver foil and taunting whistles while stalking their pray, and of course the most obvious comparison being that they are trying to make a snuff-film out of her death.
Hayley Bennett is a great final girl, I will share one scene in particular that is a mild spoiler but its not too much of one to ruin the experience for you. After Justine murders one of her assailants she removes his mask and watches mournfully as he slowly dies in horrific agony, just as she does this something innate takes over and she begins to compassionately shush him as a person would a scared child when they're suffering, essentially telling him in his final moments that its all going to be ok.
I have never seen that in a slasher film.
while the movie is of course pretty unrealistic, it's a very realistic moment of how psychologically difficult it would be to kill anyone,
even someone who means to murder you.
The film moves at a break-neck pace right to the very end.
It pulls off all the expected tropes from this sub-genre effortlessly and adds in a few things of its own. I can easily recommend Kristy to anyone who enjoys the slasher sub-genre, it's easily one of the most underrated slasher movies out there and deserves a wider audience than it no doubt received.
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