Sentence examples for killer premise from inspiring English sources
It's not terrible, by any means: just not nearly as funny or cruel as its killer premise suggests.
Calendar Girls was a huge success on both sides of the Atlantic, and a rare case of a boomer-targeted film that met with no executive resistance, owing to its killer premise.
PolarBearHiding offered this: "I can see why people might be skeptical about it (the serial killer premise doesn't seem very promising), but it's actually very well played, beautifully filmed (with lots of sensuous shots of both Michael C Hall and Miami), and a great line in black humour.
Wristcutters: A Love Story, based on a novella by Israeli writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret, has a killer premise.
If you have a killer premise, it's hard to make a movie any worse than mediocre; by contrast, if you have a terrible premise, it's hard to make a movie any better than mediocre.
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The play, A Behanding in Spokane, has a typically bleak and violent McDonagh premise: an ageing killer, played by Walken, is looking for a severed hand that he lost many years ago, then he meets a couple of con artists in a dingy hotel room who tell him they have the precious appendage.
It's a niche marriage, but a happy one, with an elegantly lean premise: a serial killer is preying on regular visitors to an idyllic lakeside cruising ground in rural France, unnerving but hardly deterring our handsome young hero, Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps).
If you can accept the notion of murder as an art and the serial killer as an artist -- the premise advanced by Joyce Carol Oates, writing as Rosamond Smith, in THE BARRENS (Otto Penzler/Carroll & Graf, $25) -- then it should not seem repellent or even strange that a murderer's savage creations could transform a man's life.
They should be aware, he said, that while the Hollywood take on killer viruses is fiction, the basic premise is true.
"Everyone on their cell phones gets zapped and turns into a serial killer," Roth says, perking up at the premise.
