Director: Laura Murphy
A birthday dare turns into a murder investigation in "F Marry Kill," a 2024 comedy-thriller from director Laura Murphy.
What is F Marry Kill about?
Eva Vaughn has spent years obsessing over true-crime podcasts from the safety of her couch, so when her friends stage an intervention for her 30th birthday, their solution is blunt: get her back on the dating apps. She agrees, half to humor them, and starts juggling three very different men. The plan unravels fast. A string of killings tied to a so-called "Swipe Right Killer" starts dominating the same podcast feed Eva can't stop listening to, and the timeline keeps lining up with her own love life. Each new episode drops a detail that makes one of her matches look a little more suspicious, and Eva has to decide whether her instincts as an amateur crime obsessive are sharp enough to spot a threat sitting across the dinner table from her.
Cast & crew
Lucy Hale leads as Eva, playing the amateur-sleuth premise with comic nervous energy rather than horror-movie dread. Virginia Gardner and Brooke Nevin round out her friend group, while Jedidiah Goodacre, Brendan Moran, and Samer Salem take on the three suitors the plot keeps her circling.
Context & significance
The film pairs its whodunit mechanics with a satirical eye on modern dating culture, poking fun at the way true-crime fandom and swipe-based romance have started to blur together. At 97 minutes, it moves briskly between comic set pieces and the slow-burn reveal of who is actually behind the killings. The premise leans into a very online anxiety: that the person you match with after a few messages might be presenting a version of themselves that has nothing to do with who they really are, which gives the comedy an uneasy edge underneath the jokes.
Where & how to watch
"F Marry Kill" streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so it's easy to follow the twists in Farsi. A free K-Time account login is all that's needed to start watching, with the full experience built around a Farsi interface for the diaspora audience.