This straightforward YA Spanish murder-mystery finds a college book club of horror buffs, all deliberate stereotypes (The Librarian, The Influencer, etc) - being picked off one-by-one by a clown-masked killer as each new chapter of the story is published online. Following a revenge prank against a predatory professor that sets the wheels in motion, the film rapidly becomes a modern-day update and relocation of I Know What You Did Last Summer for the online generation , clearly inspired by the wave of creepy-clown TikToks, styled like a Happy Death Day/Christopher Landon movie and with Scream-like self-referencing (even with a lecture-room discussion about the state of the horror genre). Storytelling is simple and literal (and it actually includes a feeble wispy-voiced slow cover of It's A Sin at one point!), the film is well edited, it has a huge generic music score and there is a visually pleasing use of a range of locations. Of its type, Killer Book Club does what it does effectively enough and would mostly appeal to young teens unfamiliar with this type of story.
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