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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • RLJ Entertainment
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • RLJ Entertainment
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary Comic book creator Todd Walkley, his wife, assistant and best friend, are heading to NYC Comic Con when bad things start to happen—people start getting killed. It soon becomes clear that a crazed fan is using his Slashman comic as inspiration for the killings. And as the bodies pile up, and Todd’s friends become victims themselves, he is...

Directed By: Jay Baruchel

Written By: Jesse Chabot, Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • RLJ Entertainment
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • RLJ Entertainment
  • 1 h 20 m

Random Acts of Violence

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Comic book creator Todd Walkley, his wife, assistant and best friend, are heading to NYC Comic Con when bad things start to happen—people start getting killed. It soon becomes clear that a crazed fan is using his Slashman comic as inspiration for the killings. And as the bodies pile up, and Todd’s friends become victims themselves, he is...

Directed By: Jay Baruchel

Written By: Jesse Chabot, Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
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50% Mixed
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38% Negative
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80
Aug 20, 2020
Random Acts of Violence has something to say about the proliferation of torture porn and horror that glorifies violence. Baruchel does it in a smart, sometimes funny, and sometimes utterly devastating way. It’s absolutely worth checking out if you love horror, and maybe even if you don’t.
By Lorry Kikta FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 25, 2020
If it thematically bites off more than it can chew, Random Acts Of Violence is a full-on, visually arresting horror. What it lacks in chills, it makes up for in ambition and style.
By Ian Freer FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 8, 2020
On its most superficial horror flick level, Jay Baruchel’s latest directorial effort Random Acts of Violence works
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 18, 2020
The result is more flashy and shallow than ingenious, let alone terrifying. Yet it’s also a committed effort, one whose energy and style command some appreciation even when they overwhelm the shaky story gist.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
38
Aug 17, 2020
For all of its ostensible thoughtfulness, in trying to describe “real art,” Random Acts of Violence ultimately doesn’t describe anything at all.
By Steven Scaife FULL REVIEW
38
Aug 10, 2020
It’s as random as its title suggests, a genre flick that doesn’t do much more than stumble and angst-out from one killing to the next.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
25
Aug 20, 2020
A depressing, cynical slice of nihilism, a movie that thinks it’s saying something about gratuitous violence and exploitation of real tragedy but is even more hypocritically hollow than the films it purports to criticize.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Elevation Pictures, Manis Film, Kickstart Productions, Image Comics, JoBro Productions & Film Finance, Trinity Media Films
Release Date Aug 20, 2020
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 4 Nominations
L'Etrange Festival
• 1 Nomination
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 1 Nomination

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