Killer App (universe movie)
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| Directed by | Harold Keach |
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| Story by | Levi Trevino |
| Based on | Characters by Levi Trevino & Michael J. Bayheimer |
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| Distributed by | Rathbone Films |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $21,500,000 |
| Box office | $89,750,224 |
Killer App is the fifth entry in The Motherboard franchise and includes Harold Keach returning as director.
Plot synopsis
A new social media app quickly gains popularity, leading to widespread distraction and subtly brainwashing users, turning them into killing machines. A group of teenagers uncover the truth and team up with the survivor from Windows 90-Ate (1998) to prevent the app from taking over entirely, only to discover that The Motherboard is orchestrating everything.
Cast
- Sabrina Hess as Laura, a teenage girl who rebels against the norm, only to realize it will save her life.
- Mari Wolf as Tiff, the high school cheerleader dating Heath.
- Declan Archer as Heath, Tiff's boy, who hides his childhood friendship with Laura out of embarrassment.
- Nicole Carter as Candace, the aunt of Laura, who survived previous computer attacks in the 90s and comes on the grid to help her niece and friends.
- Katrina Wilson as Hillary, the survivor of the previous film, who uses a bomb to blow up a phone store in the opening moments.
- Ernest Wilkinson as Lt. Sawyer, the local police chief who befriends the teenagers and has a past with Candace.
- Amy Norman as Betty / The Motherboard, the ruthless sentient computer that controls other humans to kill.
Production
The Next Chapter
Following the immense success of diePhone (2012), Paramutual Pictures established a new production company to handle the distribution of its horror/suspense films, naming it Rathbone Films.
New Direction with Old Faces
Trivia
- Both Nicole Carter and Katrina Wilson agreed to reprise their roles under the condition that their characters had grown from how they were last seen. Levi Trevino pitched the concept that Carter would have become a badass Sarah Connner type character, hating all machines and living off-grid. Wilson stated she thought her character wouldn't have had such a happy outcome and suffered permanent damage from the brief time connected to the machine in diePhone (2012). It was this suggestion that led to the cold open where her character walks into the phone store and detonates a bomb.
- The success of this film ultimately led to it's follow-up/spin-off A-Die (2023) which would feature the phone manufacturer of this company rebranded as a software company instead.
Quotes
- "#YouOnlyDieOnce, bitch!"