When Alyce and her friend Carol go out on the town for a night of drinking and partying, they find Carols boyfriend cheating on her. Distraught and looking to forget, they score some drugs, nearly have a lesbian tryst and end up on the roof where Alyce accidently, maybe, possibly pushes her friend off. Presuming she is dead, Alyce makes up a story to the police that Carol committed suicide. But Carol isnt dead. Shes just seriously messed up and in the hospital.
This bit of information sends Alyce into a semi-delusional state where she buys drugs from a sleazy drug dealer with sex, sees her friend in a dead state at her kitchen table, loses her job and does even worse deeds to her friend than before. Unfortunately, thats the extent of the majority of the film with little to no horror elements happening until the last act.
Obviously, the trouble with Alyce Kills is that it moves slow. Painfully slow. Alyces decent into madness, which is the focus here, is plodding with little interest, zero scares and a host of psychedelic imagery or weird drug-related illusions. Plus there are just random bits of oddities scattered throughout such as:
- Necrophilia boob touching.
- War masturbation.
- Random Russian roulette.
- Hugging the dead.
- Bat phobia.
- Nipple lancing.
- Weird sex fight.
- Arm in a microwave.
- Arm in a blender.
- Arm in a garbage disposal.
When the final act arrives, we finally get the payoff that we were expecting from the outset of the movie considering the title youd think it would be more prevalent. However, Alyce Kills has moved at such a snails pace that at this point we dont care and it seems like an easy way out to have her go full blown mental in the last 15 minutes despite the fact from the get go thats where we knew it was going.
Had some of this violent aggression been shown at the beginning or at least hinted at, instead of spending two-thirds of the movie with strange imagery and Alyce trying to deal with the accident involving her friend, then maybe it makes sense. Again, it is an easy out.
While the acting is decent, the production is pretty good, the storyline leaves a lot to be desired and probably makes it a Netflix option at best.
Stay up to date with the latest horror news by “liking” Shock Till You Drop’s Facebook page and following us on Twitter!
