A bad use of time (The Calendar Killer, 2025)

The Calendar Killer, 2025, directed by Adolfo J. Kolmerer, streamed on Prime Video, 1 star.

This incoherent, jumbled mess is a German film dubbed in English and dropped on Prime Video as an Amazon Original. It's not a horror flick, it's not a serial-killer thriller, it's not a stalker drama, it's not a story about a woman having a psychotic break, it's not a dive into underground BDSM clubs.

The Calendar Killer at points during its 94-minute runtime hinted at all those things. But it never became any of them. It just floated along at an iceberg pace, remaining depressingly pretentious as it took about 15 dead-end detours and fell into about a dozen cavernous plot holes.

It finally landed in the final act as a tale about the horrors of domestic abuse, I think, though it wasn't really made clear if there is a lesson to be learned or if we should take some kind of moral stance or something.

This movie was bad. We got a little taste of chaotic tension for a couple of minutes right at the end, but it was a nasty hate-watch for 85 minutes or so.

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