Tell Me How I Die

9/5/2022

Tell Me How I Die only has two problems: the title and the premise, which remind me, respectively, of I Know Who Killed Me and Final Destination — in other words, I haven’t even seen it and I already have bad memories of it. Broke college student Anna Nichols (Virginia Gardner) has the dubious "gift" of correctly predicting what drink someone is going to order at a bar, and whether or not they are of drinking age (e.g., “Manhattan and a fake ID.” Elsewhere, Dr. Jerrems (William Mapother) has been working on A9913, a formula to enhance memory "up to 300%." The good doctor needs guinea pigs just like Anna; that is, young and attractive — this isn’t a clinical trial; it’s a casting call. I’m aware that you can’t make a Dead Teenager Movie without teenagers (i.e., actors on the wro