Who is the killer in the movie Sixteen Stabs?

Recently, the slasher horror film Sixteen Stabs was added to the Amazon Prime Video catalog. The film begins in 2023, 35 years after the murder of three sixteen-year-old teenagers from the city of Vernon, who died from sixteen stab wounds.

The killer, never identified, returns to claim his fourth victim. Jamie, the protagonist, runs into the masked killer, ends up walking into a photo booth trying to escape, and accidentally travels back in time to 1987, just before the murders took place. To prevent his mother from being killed, he investigates the identity of the serial killer before he attacks his victims.

The production features performances from household names such as Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Olivia Holt (Status Update), Liana Liberato (The Best of Me), Julie Bowen (Modern Family) and Lochlyn Munro (Riverdale). and has a good score on review sites like Rotten Tomatoes, where it earned 87% approval from critics and 77% from audiences. The film also makes many references to other productions such as the Scream franchise and Back to the Future.

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Sixteen Stabs: Who is the killer in the Prime Video movie?

The climax of the film is when the teenagers find themselves in a haunted house at the amusement park, in an ambush they set up to catch the killer using Marisa as bait. After a fight between them and the masked killer, Kara, the sheriff’s daughter dressed as Death, kills the killer with her scythe, and they discover that the serial killer is Doug, the principal of Jamie’s school in 2023.

On the necklace Doug wore was a photo of “Fat Trish”, a girl who was bullied by the Mollys before dying in a car accident. It turns out that Trish was Doug’s girlfriend, and on the day of her death, she was called by Tiffany, Marisa, and Heather to a sleepover where she got drunk and, due to rumors that Trish was having an affair with the school’s coach , Tiffany continued to pressure the girl to confess, but Trish continued to deny it, hid in the room, called Doug, probably to tell him what happened, and ran away in her car, even though she was still drunk, which caused the accident that took her away. of her her life.

To get revenge, Doug killed the girls with sixteen stab wounds. Pam wasn’t among them when it all happened, so Doug didn’t kill her like she did the others.

The second assassin

The turning point comes when they discover that the killer of 2023 is not Doug, but Chris. It turns out that people were losing interest in his podcast, so he decided to kill adult Pam with sixteen stab wounds so they could reopen the case and make it relevant again. However, when he gets closer to Amélia and discovers that Jamie has returned to the past and is trying to find out who the serial killer was, he himself returns to 1987 and tries to kill the girls.

Shortly after Doug’s death, Chris kills Marisa by cutting her neck and stabbing her sixteen times, and the young men begin to flee. During this escape, Jamie runs to the park toy that Lauren has transformed into a time machine, there is a fight with Chris, but Jamie stops him from staying in the center of the toy, the only safe place when the time machine is activated. Thus, Chris “evaporated” before Jamie’s eyes.

Let’s go back to 2023

Returning to the present, Jamie discovers that going to the past has caused major changes in time. Adult Lauren gives her a notebook with everything that has changed, like the fact that the school principal is Randy, the football player, or the fact that her parents got together 4 years earlier than they should have and, because of this reason, he is now 34 years old. her twenty-year-old brother named Jamie, or the fact that her name is now Colette, and her mother seems to have a better relationship with her grandmother. Luckily, things finally worked out.

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