A Psychological Thriller
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
After my morning gym working, I returned home and ate my lunch while watching a movie on the independent channel. Rock Paper Scissors, or Rock Paper Dead, is a 2017 psychological thriller about a boy who was abused by his uncle. He grows up and becomes a serial killer, abusing woman in the same way his uncle abused him before killing them. After killing his last female victim, he is sent to a mental institution, where they performed electric shock treatment to cure him by making him forget his past trauma and activities. His therapist tells him that his friend Aaron is imaginary, as she continues to see him to make sure he isn’t triggered back into his old ways.
Directed by Tom Holland, written by Kerry Fleming and Victor Miller, and produced by Kerry Fleming, Victor Miller, Amy Williams and Tom Holland, this movie stars Luke Macfarlane, Jennifer Titus, Tatum O’Neal, Michael Madsen, Anna Margaret, John Dugan, Maureen McCormick, Courtlyn Cannan, Nicole Pierce, Kerry Flemming, and others.
When he is released from the mental institution, he returns to his uncle’s house, which is now similar to a rundown haunted house. He is being haunted by his past—his uncle’s abuse, his female victims, and old memories from the house. His uncle appears to have been a pedophile, physically abusing him after always winning at the game, Rock Paper Scissors. And, when anyone asks him about Aaron, he always reiterates that Aaron isn’t real.
A female neighbor moves in the neighborhood for the main purpose of getting back at Peter for killing her older sister. She pretends to be a writer, interested in writing a book about his story. He starts falling in love with her, even though she has no interest in him.
A town sheriff stays in his car and keeps an eye on him as well as Ashley. Peter seems to be triggered at certain situations but he fights it and remains calm. Ashley appears to be as screwed up and twisted as Peter because she gets involved with Peter in order to get her revenge.
But at the end, when Ashley turns the tables on Peter, making him feel like the victim being tortured until death, he is triggered to fight back. Aaron returns and appears to be his twin brother, and they fight off Ashley, who mentions that she as a black belt in karate. She kills Peter.
It is a sad movie about an abused kid who becomes a serial killer, becomes reformed, fights the triggers, and ends up dead by the mentally ill sister of Peter’s victim. She ends up in a mental institution because she wasn’t satisfied with his death. She wanted to torture him and watch him suffer, instead. Aaron returns and goes after Ashley. The hospital turns into a bloodbath, as Aaron pretends to be an ambulance driver and kidnaps mental Ashley. I thought it was an average film, but a little confusing because of the twin brothers at the end of the movie. I think the twin brothers were played by the same man, Canadian actor, Luke Macfarlane. But I noticed an interesting coincidence that the main character is gay in real life, and his character appeared to have gay tendencies as a child when his uncle dressed him like a young girl and molested him, which further messed Peter up and made him a serial killer. But it also appears that Aaron is also a serial killer, although a much stronger and confident killer. It is a twisted movie.
