Joseph Sturgeon awakes one morning, hands covered in blood, a badly infected wound on his ribcage. He doesn't know what happened. The last thing he remembers from the previous evening is rage, his neighbor, the nightmare again.

Anna, desperate, lonely, follows Joseph, hoping to make a connection. She finds him mysterious and driven. An awkward courtship begins.

Killer Me is a mysterious, unsettling film that gets inside your head with a gritty, first person feel recalling low-budget shockers like Peter Bogdonovich's Targets and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom.

Recently emerged from the woods and a then-unknown film called The Blair Witch Project, Director of Photography Neal Fredericks effectively captured the raw look Hansen wanted for the film. Fredericks mixed stark lighting extremes for the more surreal sequences, a more natural lighting for other scenes, while still managing to shoot 35 set-ups a day during the 18-day shoot.

Hansen created most of the film's music score with a children's toy called the Fisher Price PXL2000. The pixel camera captures its grainy images on a standard audiocassette. Playing back these tapes on a cassette deck, Hansen created eerie, distorted sounds that are as unsettling as the film's images. Also shot with the pixel camera and reprocessed on an Avid, the ghostly images of the opening title sequence provide the audience with a graphic entrance into the disturbed world of Killer Me.

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Christina Kew plays Anna

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