King
Kelly
(2012)
Here's
something new and not
Australian...
King Kelly is a found
footage film (of sorts)
following the exploits
of Kelly (Louisa Krause)
on one American
Independence Day, also
her father's birthday.
And it's going to be a
helluva day. Kelly still
lives with her parents
and makes money by
performing webcam sex
shows on the internet
under her nickname King
Kelly, but she wants
more and is about to
start her own website.
Her best friend Jordan
(Libby Woodbridge) knows
what Kelly is up to and
as they are working out
poses for her website,
her former boyfriend
Ryan steals her car,
well, his car that she
was borrowing from him.
Just one thing, the car
has a small package of
drugs that Kelly
couriers to make a
little extra money. Just
one more thing, her
go-between didn't tell
her that the package was
decidedly bigger than
usual this time around
and that someone not
going to happy if they
don't get it back. And
just one more thing,
Ryan isn't home and
seemed to have dropped
off the map. Kelly and
Jordan go looking for
Ryan in Jordan's mum's
car, but happen upon a
party where an incident
between Kelly and
Jordan's boyfriend is
interrupted by Jordan,
who subsequently gets
off her face to numb the
pain. But, they still
need to find Ryan, which
is about to become
harder when they crash
the car. How are they
going to get out this
and get the drugs? By
calling one of Kelly's
fans, Poo-Bare, a state
trooper. The night has
only started to get
messy...
Found
Footage films have
become their own genre,
but pretty much all of
them are horror movies.
King Kelly is a horror
movie, but of a
different sort as in the
horror of watching
people slowly descend
into bigger and bigger
problems. King Kelly
plays as a satire of the
current environment,
plotting the incredibly
narcissistic exploits of
Kelly as performed
breathtakingly well by
Louisa Krause (who I've
only ever seen in bit
parts in The Babysitters
and Martha Marcy May
Marlene) and delivers an
ending which is a bigger
gut punch than I've seen
in other found footage
films. It's the Facebook
generation and if this
is the way we're going,
we're fucked. Well worth
a look if you want to
ruin your evening.
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