Office Killer (1997) poster
1997 · horror · comedy · indie

Office Killer

Directed by Cindy Sherman1h 22m1997
ElsewhereIMDb5.22kRT29%TMDB5.247
  • sombre
  • intense
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.

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When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.

Our read · Office Killer (1997) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive horror · comedy · indie entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.

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You want a campy gory horror-comedy about an office drudge who starts a basement collection of coworkers.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 15attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorechild peril

Skip it tonightYou dislike graphic gore or dark workplace revenge fantasies.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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