Episode 590: Office Killer (1997)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

We are kicking off Shocktober 2022 with a look at Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer. Released in 1997 the film stars Carol Kane as Dorine Douglas, a mousy proofreader at a magazine that’s downsizing. After accidentally electrocuting the office lech, Dorine begins recreating her office life at home with her overbearing mother.

Dahlia Schweitzer and Chris Stachiw join Mike to discuss the film while screenwriter Tom Kalin talks about the making of Office Killer.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.1	Shut it off.
0:25.4	Turn it off.
0:27.5	Turn it off.
0:31.5	Andra! For the last 16 years, Doreen Douglas has worked at constant consumer magazine without a promotion.
0:53.3	She was quiet.
0:54.9	Doris Sit.
0:56.1	Conservative.
0:56.9	It's Doreen.
0:57.9	And inconspicuous.
0:59.5	Excuse me.
1:01.0	Until the day.
1:02.7	Today's the big day.
1:04.2	They fired half the staff.
1:06.4	It's a massacre.
1:07.2	For this unassuming copy editor,
1:10.0	keeping her job becomes an opportunity to do a little
1:13.1	corporate downsizing of her own.
	...

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