Office Killer

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Office Killer
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Directed by	Cindy Sherman
Produced by	Pamela Koffler
Written by	Todd Haynes Tom Kalin Elise MacAdam Cindy Sherman
Starring	Carol Kane David Thornton Molly Ringwald Jeanne Tripplehorn Barbara Sukowa
Music by	Evan Lurie
Cinematography	Russell Fine
Editing by	Merril Stern
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release date(s)	August 12, 1997
Running time	82 min
Country	United States
Language	English
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Office Killer is a comedy-horror film directed by Cindy Sherman. It was released in 1997 and stars Carol Kane and David Thornton.

[edit] Plot

An office worker named Dorine is called upon to do late work; her computer breaks down and she asks the help of a co-worker, Gary Michaels, who is electrocuted while trying to fix the wires. Dorine dials 911, but hangs up when the call is answered. She places the corpse on a cart, rolls it down to her car, loads it in her trunk, and takes it home, placing it in her furnished basement (we don't see the body until later). Then, seemingly without reason, she goes into a murder spree. She kills Virginia by poisoning her inhaler tube, taking the second corpse to her basement, placing it on a sofa, next to Gary's. Then comes the turn of two young Girl Scouts who arrive at her door to sell cookies. The young girls join the other corpses in the basement, Dorine seen eating the cookies with relish while working on her new laptop. Intriguingly, she sends messages from Gary to the remaining office workers, implying he is alive and has left the office or his wife. There are three more murders before the movie ends, all planned with cool design and seeming absence of malice. The last scene shows Dorine, after her mother's death, setting fire to her basement, then, sporting a blond wig, driving away in her car, circling a newspaper ad with her pencil for an office job, a look of triumph in her face.