
Bad Apples
2018

Representation Score
Limited
2023
NRDirector
Steve Wolsh
Runtime
99 minutes
Average Rating
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Kill Her Goats operates as a typical genre exercise within the independent slasher subgenre. It stands out by providing women's ability to drive the story, focusing on a woman's fight to protect her autonomy and property from unwanted visitors. However, the film stays within traditional genre boundaries. It lacks the complex, multi-layered narrative structure or systemic critiques needed to challenge established social hierarchies or offer deep progressive representation. Ultimately, while the cast shows moderate inclusion, the film adheres to established slasher trajectories rather than actively exploring diverse identities or cultural tensions.
Category Breakdown
The film does not include explicit LGBTQ+ characters or stories that question the assumption that everyone is straight or cisgender. It follows a traditional slasher format focused on a single main character.
Audra, the female protagonist, achieves economic independence through her dream house. This places more emphasis on a female lead, which slightly challenges the usual male-dominated survival narratives.
The cast includes a diverse range of performers like Arielle Raycene and Monica Sims. However, the film does not show intentional multi-layered blending or casting actors whose backgrounds differ from the role's traditional expectation.
The story explores themes of property ownership and social intrusion. It does not provide a clear systemic critique of Western institutions or explicit secularist or anti-capitalist sentiments.
The film does not portray any visible or invisible disabilities with real depth or as a narrative plot device. There are no characters using disability in a meaningful way.
Present on Screen
Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
Audra's graduation gift is her dream house, but it soon becomes a living nightmare when some uninvited guests come to her homecoming party who aren't very subtle about the fact they don't approve of the home's new owner.

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