Some Guy Who Kills People (2011)

Years ago, Ken Boyd was trapped and tortured by the high school basketball team, leaving him emotionally (and physically) scarred.
Fresh out of the loony bin and working in an ice-cream parlour, Ken seems to be getting his life in order, and all is going well, until he is sent to one of the team member's birthday party to serve ice-cream, and the ex-jock mocks his work-uniform (a giant ice-cream cone).
The next day, the bully turns up dead; and he's not the last.
One by one, the people who tormented Ken get brutally slaughtered, to complicate things further, Ken's 11 year old daughter shows up.
Can Ken find his place in the world, can he be a dad, or is he just Some Guy Who Kills People?

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This is a weird one... It's supposed to be a comedy, but it's really not that funny, it's supposed to be a horror, but it's really not scary, it plays like a whodunit, but we see Ken at every murder, and we're not given much else in the way of suspects, it's called "Some Guy Who Kills People" but the father / daughter relationship takes centre stage for most of its runtime... In short, it's a mess. 

I can't figure out the timeline either; the back if the box says that Ken is "fresh out of the loony bin", and there's dialogue to support this; but then his daughter is 11 years old, and her mother claims that when she met Ken he'd "just got out if an institute; for depression or something". That would suggest that Ken has been in-and-out of the hospital since the incident... But then he tell's his new love interest, Ruth (Lucy Davis, Diane - Shaun of the Dead) that he hasn't traveled, due to his time in the facility...

Take out the killings, and the whole thing looks an feels like some Sunday afternoon filler you might catch on "Movies 24" or some such - one of those DTV / made for TV movies that leave you wondering who actually watches these things. 

It's just so... Blah. Coming across like an utterly middle-of-the-road family-type move, that someone has edited some murders into... Come to think of it, if you replaced the murders with off-screen beatings (and comedy casts and crutches for the victims), this would easily pass for a family film. 

Murders aside, the only thing if note is Barry Bostwick (Brad Majors, The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as the town Sheriff (and Boyfriend to Ken's Mum). He isn't great in it, and his character fails to be funny, but at least it written in a way that obviously attempts to be funny, thus giving us our only on-screen clue that this is supposed to be a comedy. 

It's surprising to see actors you recognise in something do painfully mediocre, but the biggest mystery is how they got John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) to executive produce. I understand that "Executive Producer" is more often than not an honorary title, but even at that I can't imagine anyone falling over themselves to get their name on the poster. 

I can't bring myself to tell you to avoid this movie; it's too bland to muster that strong of a reaction, but seriously; you have better things to do with your time!