Director: Nahnatchka Khan
A masked slasher who vanished after one bloody Halloween resurfaces thirty-five years later, and the only person positioned to stop him is a teenager thrown backward into the exact night it all began.
What is Totally Killer about?
Jamie is seventeen and living an ordinary life in a town that never fully recovered from the Sweet Sixteen Killer's original spree. When the killer resurfaces decades later to finish what he started, Jamie gets caught in the blast of an experimental machine her mother built and wakes up in 1987 — the same year, the same town, the same killer still years away from his first victim. Stuck without a phone, without ID anyone will believe, and without the faintest idea how perms and shoulder pads work, Jamie has to track down a masked murderer using only rumor, instinct, and a crash course in the era's slang. Along the way she keeps bumping into a teenage version of her own mother, whose choices in 1987 are quietly shaping the woman Jamie thought she already knew.
Cast & crew
Kiernan Shipka anchors the film as Jamie, playing both the exasperation of a modern teen dropped into an unfamiliar decade and the growing tenderness she feels toward the mother she's meeting as a peer. Olivia Holt plays that younger version of the mother, matching Shipka's energy scene for scene. Julie Bowen and Randall Park round out the cast in supporting roles that ground the film's comedy, while Charlie Gillespie and Lochlyn Munro fill out the 1987 timeline with period-appropriate mischief.
Context & significance
Director Nahnatchka Khan, best known for the sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, brings a sharp comic sensibility to a premise that could easily have played as straight horror. The film leans into its 1980s setting for laughs as much as scares, treating the slasher formula as a launchpad for a time-travel comedy rather than the other way around. Released in 2023, it blends genuine tension with an affectionate ribbing of decade-specific tropes.
Where & how to watch
Totally Killer streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available, so it can be watched either way depending on preference. The page itself is free to browse without signing in; watching the film requires only a free K-Time account login. K-Time's interface is built around a Farsi-first experience for Persian-speaking audiences everywhere.