Other users on this site seem to have enjoyed KILLER NERD, and I commend them for their ability to extract entertainment from what is in all respects an absolute dog of a film. Me, I hated it; it's far too inept in absolutely every respect to be the type of film you can even like in a so-bad-it's-good kind of way.It's a home movie made with a bunch of theatre students whose ability ability is about the same as a newt's. A nerd is bullied and abused by those in his life until one day he snaps and goes on a rampage of revenge, but this shot-on-video nonsense is so appallingly bad that you can't take a single scene of the film seriously. The acting is mind-blowingly awful, the effects are non-existent, the gratuitous nudity is laughable, and the lack of a script is all too telling. Incredibly, a sequel, BRIDE OF KILLER NERD, was to follow.

"GIVE ME A RAD 'DO" -one of the best phrases from any movie ever! this nerd attempts to "be cool" by instruction of a set of VHS tapes on how to be cool. and goes to the beauty shop to get a rad hair-do. the result is like every 80's hairstyle all rolled into one. hilarious!~ there are many many other super funny parts that i don't want to give away. please see for yourself!this movie is the best horror/comedy i have ever seen. if you like nerds, or the 80's, or both this movie is right for you.nerd!nerd!nerd! the special effects are also a riot. please see this film. you will not regret it. and you will immediately want to show all of your friends.

I enjoyed this Troma movie very much. Everything from the Killer Nerd's dance on the dance floor at a local bar to the "How to be Cool" skit made the movie pretty funny. Killer Nerd could have had a little more of a personality but still not bad for the budget give for a 7500 dollar movie! I still prefer Steve Urkel and Jamison from WWF fame but Killer Nerd was still somehow able to provide me with some good comedy. I thought the 9 year old girls calling Killer Nerd a nerd after his hard day of working at the office quite cute but quite sad at the same time. Probably one of the better Troma movies I've seen so far, which isn't very many(9 and counting!).

With that sarcastic remark out of the way, let's get to the review, shall we? This is an odd little movie, to say the least, but I liked it. My expectations were a little too much for this, but it's not too bad at all. It starts out as a goofy, quirky comedy (which would probably only be funny to us geeky people), but doesn't get truly horrific until the end. It's the kind of movie I would love to fool some mainstreamers into watching just to see the look on their faces when it switches gears and becomes a splatter movie toward the end. One thing I'm yet to figure out is whether the horror portion is meant to be humorous in a Freddy Krueger type of way, or to be intense with a guy who loses it and offs anyone who he thinks has crossed him, regardless of who might deserve it or not (which some of the victims don't). All in all, though, I did like it, just not as much as I thought I would. I think the title was what ensnared me, and though we do get what's promised, the delivery wasn't as much of a nasty blast as I had hoped for. If I could give it a rating with stars (which I usually don't like to do), I would sum this one up with about three out of five.