Film

Killer Sofa

Name: Killer Sofa
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 2019
Cast: Piimio Mei, Nathalie Morris, Jim Baltaxe, Jed Brophy, Stacey King

Killer Sofa is a New Zealand horror-comedy where a possessed reclining chair develops a murderous obsession with a woman dogged by stalkers. It's scrappy, absurd, and deliberately cheap-looking in the best way—like your friends made it in a garage and somehow nailed the tone. For people who love horror that refuses to take itself seriously and finds comedy in genuine weirdness rather than winks at the camera.

TMDb rating

2.3

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you like silly, gleefully cheap horror-comedy where the B-movie premise is played straight and the jokes land on the nose, and you don't mind a plot that bounces between several threads.

Skip it if you need horror that frightens, since the scares here are rubbery and the thing gets sillier the longer it runs.

What it asks of you: Eighty minutes, brisk and busy, with several storylines jostling for room, so it rewards you for keeping up rather than settling in with a slow build.

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