They Will Kill You - Second Worst Apartment Complex EVER!

I don't remember what was going on or why I didn't make it out to see this in theaters. I wanted to because the trailer I kept seeing had my attention. Arrived on MAX and gave it a watch.

It did not disappoint.

I absolutely love a good horror comedy. All I need is a compelling story, the right ammount of gore and a character to root for to kill the bad guys...check, check, and check.

We start with some backstory with our hero and her sister (Asia and Maya Reaves respectively) running from their very abusive and lets be honest, torturous step-father. While getting some food at a convenience store, he shows up looking for them.

They try to get away, but that darn bell. Asia shoots him, flees from cops (sadly, leaving her sister behind), and eventually gets caught arrested and does ten years. That brings us to the present.

Now, in most circumstances, a smart person would see this building and think, "Yeah, maybe I shouldn't go work here." The building has about nine floors. The very top has an upside down pentagram with a red light shining from it. The doors are large and has engravings of demons and other spooky like things. Now, would YOU go inside?

Of course I would, if I knew someone I loved was inside. This is where Asia's sister is; went missing not too long before and this was where she was last seen. Asia pretends to be the new maid. A mysterious message from a mysterious stranger on her shower mirror: "THEY WILL KILL YOU!", and her night of horror begins.

She's attacked, but here's the fun part...she's ready. Doing time, she learned a thing or two about surviving. Kills every person that attacks her in her room. I mean, she decapitates one guy!

This building has a secret. The tenants have sold their souls and so long as they have a sacrifice every once in a while to appease their crossroads pact they can live forever. Those kills? They don't so much stick.

The whole movie is a fight for survival and finding her sister. The funniest moments come from when she kills. She blows the head off Heather Grahams character in a tiny space and it slowly, very slowly, grows back while she can still run around. Their parts fuse back adding a whole degree of difficulty.

Like so many things, there's more to the story and her sister's place in the building. She's been there for a while and not dead? How? Why? Jim, take it home...

The climax can only be described as the strangest final boss battle I've seen in a very long time. The demon pact is done on the head of a pig/hog. As long as the name is on the pig head, they have immortality.

The leader of this group of immortal jerks is Lily Woodhouse, played magnificently by Patricia Arquette. Her final form was putting the head on top of hers and it had weird tentacles. So weird.

Man this movie was so much fun. Light on the scares, but heavy on the gore with all the attempted killings of the cult members. Body parts are cut off, eyeballs are squished, heads are falling off.

More than anything its about sisters who were once close, trying to survive a horrible step-parent, coming back together to survive together once again. Twists you see coming, but you know its going to work out in the end. It's not that kind of comedy horror.

It has an air of mystery like Weapons, the comedy of The Cabin in the Woods, with some of the gory elements of Send Help. The movie was just a fun time. It does what it needs to do in the amount of time it needed to. It wasn't too long, just the right amount.

If you love horror-comedies, this one will hit the spot. While far from perfect, you won't regret the time spent with this one. Would watch again, would add to my yearly Halloween horror movie watches.

4/5