Knight Chills

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Audience Member Pretty decent slasher Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Knight Chills Starring: Michael Wayne Walton, Tim Jeffrey, Laura Tidwell, and DJ Perry Director: Katherine Hicks In "Knight Chills", a mentally unstable roleplaying gamer (Walton) loses track of the lines between reality and fantasy and kills himself over the unrequited love of a part-time game-group member (Tidwell). The tragedy quickly turns to terror for the suriving gamers, as they are one by one stalked and killed I really wanted to like this movie. As a long-time roleplaying gamer, as well as a professional roleplaying game writer, I thought the premise of "Knight Chills"--a game group that ends up being stalked by one of the RPG characters coming to life--sounded very, very cool. I still think it's a great concept, but it's not one that is really used to its fullest potential here. While "Knight Chills" is better than most of the low-budget movies of its kind (the ones appearing in DVD multipacks through Brentwood Home Video), with overall better acting, better technical competence, and a better score, it is still crammed full of filler material and displays many of the typical cheap movie flaws... with badly scripted and redundant "character development" scenes being the most prominant of those flaws in this movie. Further, "Knight Chills' goes a great job of conveying what is must be like to be a spectator at a roleplaying game. The wife of a former collegue of mine once described roleplaying game sessions as "two minutes of action crammed into four hours." The gaming scenes in "Knight Chills" made me more fully understand exactly what she meant than I have ever understood before. They rang true to life, with the Gamemaster (Jeffrey) and the I-game-because-my-boyfriend-likes-his-geeky-friends-and-I-like-my-boyfriend (Tidwell) seeming particularly realistic. And that could be the problem. RPGs ARE boring, unless you're in the game, playing a character. So, as much as I wanted to be able to give "Knight Chills" a rave review, I can't. I can't even recommend it, unless you're a GM who wants to show his players what bad gaming protocol is. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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