Line #11 Film/SomeGuyWhoKillsPeople


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3	''Some Guy Who Kills People'' is a 2012 American comedy-drama-horror film directed by Jack Perez and written by Ryan Levin.
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5	This film is about Ken Boyd (Kevin Corrigan), a guy who is not long out of a mental hospital who is working at an ice-cream/burger parlor. The people that put him in the mental hospital start turning up dead, killed in horrific ways. He finds out he has a daughter while at the same time that these killings are happening in the town. Meanwhile the local Sheriff (Creator/BarryBostwick) is going out with Ken's mom (Creator/KarenBlack) and he starts to suspect that Ken is the killer. All the evidence is pointing that way, and Ken's estranged daughter catches him in a compromising position. It's not looking good for Ken.
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9	* AutopsySnackTime: Sheriff Fuller surveys the crime scene where Wade Hutchinson's body has been hacked into pieces with a [[MacheteMayhem machete]] while eating a box of popcorn he takes off his deputy.
10	* BadJobWorseUniform: Ken's job at the ice cream parlour involves having to dress up in a giant ice cream come costume; both to hand out firers on the street and serve ice cream at parties.
11	* TheBenchwarmer: Amy constantly talks about being on the basketball team. However, her father Ken eventually learns that she has never played in a game, and she explains that the coach needed eight players for a team, and only eight girls showed up for the tryouts.
12	* BirdsOfAFeather: Downplayed, but Stephanie's attraction to Ken is helped by how they're both outsiders in a sense. He's a former mental patient and she's a lonely, divorced English expat.
13	* BoundAndGagged: In his FlashbackNightmare to being tormented by the {{Jerk Jock}}s on the basketball team, Ken is bound to a chair and gagged with duct tape.
14	* CallingCard: The killer leaves cryptic clues on the bodies of the victims, and initially the sheriff cannot work out what they mean. However, once he discovers the connections between the victims, he realizes the clues relate to their numbers on the high school basketball team (an ace and king playing cards for no. 21, a V carved into his chest for no. 5, etc.).
15	* CatapultNightmare: The opening scene has Ken suffering a FlashbackNightmare where he is tortured by the {{Jerk Jock}}s on the basketball team. He sits up suddenly as he wakes, only to discover he is late for work.
16	* CluelessDeputy: Sheriff Fuller's head deputy Ernie. Arriving at the first crime scene, where the victim has a hatchet buried in his skull, the sheriff makes a comment about having 'a splitting headache'. Thinking the sheriff as making a pun, Ernie proceeds to make a HurricaneOfPuns about axes, to the sheriff's growing bewilderment. And, according to the sheriff, his other two deputies are even worse (they can't even properly surround a crime scene with tape).
17	* CutAndPasteNote: After the killings start, the sheriff receives a cut-and-paste note reading "An [picture of an eye] 4 an [picture of an eye]". This is the first of a series of such notes from the killer.
18	* DangerTakesABackseat: Lyle Bagwell is murdered by the killer hiding in the cab of his pickup truck. The last shot of him is his bloody hand clawing desperately at the rear window.
19	* DesiresPrisonLife: Sheriff Fuller asks Ken why he was willing to [[FalseConfession take the fall for crimes he hadn't committed]], and Ken replies that everything on the outside is so confusing that being sent back to the asylum where there is order and routine seemed like a good option.
20	* EurekaMoment: The sheriff is struggling to find a connection between the victims aside from them all coming from the same town. His CluelessDeputy, who has a habit of making inappropriate jokes, remarks that if there were six more of them, they'd have a baseball team. That gives the sheriff his lightbulb moment as he grabs the yearbooks and discovers the victims had all been on the high school basketball team.
21	* FalseConfession: Ken doesn't exactly confess to the murders, but he offers no defence either, because he is NotUsedToFreedom and being sent back to the asylum is looking pretty inviting to him. Sheriff Fuller figures it out when Ken doesn't know anything about the notes the killer sent the police.
22	* FlashbackNightmare: Ken has a recurring flashback nightmare to when he was BoundAndGagged and tortured by the {{Jerk Jock}}s on the high school basketball team.
23	* GrievousBottleyHarm: [[spoiler:Irv]] smashes a beer bottle over Sheriff Fuller when Fuller tries to arrest him. Fuller just [[HardHead shrugs this off]], draws his gun and arrests him.
24	* HurricaneOfPuns: Arriving at the first crime scene, where the victim has a hatchet buried in his skull, Sheriff Fuller makes a comment about having 'a splitting headache'. Thinking the sheriff as making a pun, his CluelessDeputy Ernie proceeds to make a Hurricane Of Puns about axes, to the sheriff's growing bewilderment.
25	* InappropriateHunger: Sheriff Fuller surveys the crime scene where Wade Hutchinson's body has been hacked into pieces with a [[MacheteMayhem machete]] while eating a box of popcorn he takes off his deputy.
26	* INeverSaidItWasPoison: The inverted form. Sheriff Fuller is convinced Ken is making a FalseConfession, and talks to him about the notes the killer sent: saying he found the one reading "I am a monster" particularly chilling. Ken says "Thank you", and Fuller then tells him that there never was a note reading that. The "I am a monster" note was from the 'Son of Sam' case.
27	* IWantGrandkids: A variant occurs when Ken's mom finds out about his illegitimate daughter, who he never told his mom about. she’s very eager to meet the girl and says that she can stay and her son can leave if he feels so uncomfortable about Amy's presence.
28	* JerkJock: All the victims were BarbaricBully basketball stars in high school.
29	* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The killer. [[spoiler:He kills a SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp who tortured his best friend Ken in high school and is continuing to bully him as an adult. He kills several other people who bullied Ken and are still cruel as adults while enjoying each death even more than the last. By the end of the movie, he has his and Ken's MeanBoss (although not ''too'' mean) tied up in a closet to torture and is reluctantly prepared to kill Ken's daughter so she can't testify against him.]]
30	* KavorkaMan: Mrs Prichard describes her late husband Marty--who was grossly overweight--as a ladies man who was frequently found in the company of loose women. Sheriff Fuller has a hard time believing this.
31	* ALadyOnEachArm: At his birthday party, the grossly overweight Marty Prichard is seen sitting in a chair with his arm around a pretty young woman sitting on each arm of the chair.
32	* MacheteMayhem: Wade Hutchinson, the second victim, is hacked to pieces with a machete; including having [[OffWithHisHead his head cut off]].
33	* MayorPain: The mayor shows up at a crime scene to yell at the small sheriff's department for not solving the murder spree, even though it's his decision not to call in out-of-state cops.
34	* NotUsedToFreedom: Sheriff Fuller asks Ken why he was willing to [[FalseConfession take the fall for crimes he hadn't committed]], and Ken replies that everything on the outside is so confusing that being sent back to the asylum where there is order and routine seemed like a good option.
35	* OffWithHisHead: Wade Hutchinson, victim no. 2, has his head hacked off with a [[MacheteMayhem machete]].
36	* OldCopYoungCop: The intelligent but not infallible sheriff is about the same age as his girlfriend, who's a grandmother. His pun-making CluelessDeputy is decades younger.
37	* SerialKiller: Of the revenge variety.
38	* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Played with by Sheriff Fuller (whose comments show him to be highly intelligent). He tells Ken that chess is his way of escaping from his problems. He doesn't play the game but, for some reason, thinking about it calms him down.
39	* TokenGoodCop: Sheriff Fuller is a thorough and dedicated investigator, while his three deputies are [[CluelessDeputy bunglers]] who only ever do anything useful by accident.
40	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: One of the murdered bullies is constantly sucking lollipops.
41	* WhamShot: When the Sheriff goes to get one last beer from the fridge after he and Ruth are about to break up because he had to arrest her son, he sees a mural made from newspaper clippings that Amy made on the refrigerator. He realizes that's why there were cut-up papers like the ones the killer used for his CutAndPasteNote, and that the signs that have been making him and the audience think Ken is guilty are misleading.
42	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Ken's coworker and old classmate Irv constantly tells him that he shouldn't be working the same menial job Irv has (with Irv calling himself a loser) and his breakdown isn't his fault.

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