Title – Psycho Killer (2026)
Director – Gavin Polone (feature debut)
Cast – Georgina Campbell, James Preston Rogers, Malcolm McDowell
Plot – Police officer Jane Archer (Campbell) begins a dangerous quest to track down a mysterious murderer who killed her husband and fellow police officer in cold blood.
“He’s coming for you”
Review by Eddie on 30/10/2026
Having gestated in various forms of pre-production iterations since 2007, the 20th Century Studios released Psycho Killer finally saw the light of day when it was dropped into a little marketed cinematic run earlier this year, becoming a victim of dire box office results and terrible reviews that have marked debut director Gavin Polone’s film down as one of 2026’s biggest duds.
Continuing on a diabolic career glow-down from once praised Se7en scribe Andrew Kevin Walker, Killer is a bland and lifeless B-grade affair that is saved only by the fact its lead actress Georgina Campbell seems to care way more than she should and that it quickly becomes a so bad its good experience that can enjoyed purely from a curiosity point of view of how bad can this thing get?
Filled with glaringly obvious plot holes, incidents that make little to no sense and directed throughout without an ounce of creativity and spark outside of an oddly memorable rampage inside the confines of poor old Malcolm McDowell’s Satanic compound, Killer might just have been able to be something of note if the stars had aligned differently but as it stands this is far and away the worst screenplay of Walker’s career, a career that has always teased us as a what might have been following his triumphs with Se7en.
Starting abruptly as we witness James Preston’s Rogers (voiced with one of the stranger vocal takes I’ve heard recently) titular killer murder a police officer, Killer never really manages to find its storytelling groove as Campbell’s traumatised police officer sets out on a mission to unearth the mystery of the mass murderer that is on a cross-country rampage of devilish antics.
With a dark tone that walks on the wrong side of the dark-scale purely for the sake of it, there’s nothing here that ever helps Killer along the way to become a better version of itself and with no central mystery that actually interests viewers and no twists and turns that could’ve made for some B-movie delights, Polone and Walker’s collaboration ends up being a trashy video nasty that can only be tolerated in the most lowly degrees as a trainwreck you can’t turn away from.
In a year where horror films have taken the world by storm and showcased a genre that is being expanded upon and evolved, Killer is a stark reminder that amongst the many wins there’s still more than decent portion of misfires that should never have seen the light of day.
Final Say –
A new career low for once praised screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, Psycho Killer is a pointless horror outing that is as listless as they come, needing to be seen only by those who need to witness how bad things can get when the care factor sits far below where it needs to be.
1 rudely interrupted ritual out of 5
