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Office Killer (1997)

When the office proofreading drudge (Carol Kane) accidentally electrocutes an unpleasant co-worker and things get better, she starts taking out the rest of her colleagues on purpose.  

Quick Review: Because Office Killer was directed by famed art photographer Cindy Sherman, there is an urge to look at it as a meaningful statement about post-modern feminism in the changing corporate world.  Suppress such urges.  Office Killer will not hold up to that kind of scrutiny, but as a cheap Slasher-comedy, it's not too bad.  Kane has the right amount of put-upon psycho for the part of the office drone who keeps dead bodies and protects them by putting scotch tape over their gaping wounds.  Molly Ringwald and Jeanne Tripplehorn are a step up from the normal Slasher cast.  Unfortunately, once a few murders have been gleefully performed, the whole thing loses steam.  It's easy to cheer for the maniac at first, but she ends up little more pleasant than her co-workers and the jokes are long gone by the three-quarters mark.  It looks like Sherman had an idea of how to start the film, but no idea of what to do with it.  The off-beat, anti-corporate, gory, first half keep Office Killer  watchable, but it should have been better. 

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