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Random Acts of Violence is a 2019 slasher film directed and produced by Jay Baruchel, who wrote the screenplay with Jesse Chabot. An adaptation of the 2010 graphic novel, the film follows a comic book creator (portrayed by Jesse Williams) whose works are used as inspiration for a string of real-life murders. Jordana Brewster and Baruchel also star.
Kelly McNeely: So Random Acts of Violence is based on a graphic novel. But you’ve got a lot of really great horror elements in there, too. What were your inspirations or influences when directing the movie and making those horror elements really kind of pop?
Though Random Acts of Violence is a well polished film, its scripted acts of violence are not glamorous; they’re clumsy and realistically frenzied. Horror as a genre has been so often perceived as just inflicting pain on others for the sake of entertainment, and it’s been demonized for this.
Aug 18, 2020 · Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy) stars as Todd Walkley, the creator of a violent but popular horror comic series Slasherman, controversially based off an in-world real serial killer. Walkley is ...
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Random Acts of Violenceis based on the one shot comic book of the same name by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti. The story takes on a meta approach to how fans perceive a work of art. Where is the line between obsessive fan and dedicated follower? The movie seems to draw that line at murder. However, this plot isn’t as simple as just some blood and ...
There’s no evidence to make police officers believe that Todd and his gang could be murderers. Despite not being “guilty”, they’re labeled as partially responsible. Regardless of who did it, Todd’s creation directly inspired the brutal killing of real people. This leaves the gang in an unsettling predicament where they’re left to question their cre...
Horror films tend to be relatively cheap to make. Because of this, it’s not uncommon to see a handful of low-budget horror movies that rarely make us stare wide-eyed at the screen over genuine scares. Instead, violence is used to cover up faults in the film. Random Acts of Violence has more than enough blood and brutal kills, but Jay Baruchel manag...
There is a place in this world for mediocre slasher films. Despite the name Slasherman, very little of this movie comes across as one of those movies. Instead, it uses fist-clenching, can’t-look-away gore as a way to get us intrigued about some pretty important questions around how and why we consume media. Why do we love this movie? And is there a...
- Meghan Hale
Aug 20, 2020 · Random Acts of Violence. Horror. 80 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 2020. Brian Tallerico. August 20, 2020. 3 min read. Jay Baruchel ’s “Random Acts of Violence” is a depressing, cynical slice of nihilism, a movie that thinks it’s saying something about gratuitous violence and exploitation of real tragedy but is even more hypocritically hollow than ...
Jul 30, 2020 · The killer in Random Acts of Violence subscribes to many of the tropes of the killer in a horror film — he’s often only glimpsed, for example — but one that he pointedly isn’t is the sort of superhuman figure that eventually grew out of ’80s slasher films.
