Movie Review: I Know Exactly How You Die

I Know Exactly How You Die Movie Review  by Matt Boiselle

I Know Exactly How You Die – directed by Alexandra Speith and written by Mike Corey, and starring Rushabh Patel, Stephanie Hogan and Katie Wieland

Synopsis: A writer in the middle of penning his latest slasher-novel faces the challenge of trying to protect his main character from being slaughtered by a sadistic killer.

If you’ve written in any form of creative capacity, you can definitely agree with the term “mental block” – you’re literally plugging away in a state of cohesion and understanding when out of the blue you’re hit by a freight train of just NOTHING…like standing at that empty intersection with tumbleweed passing you by. Thought-processes, be damned – it’s going to take some time to get this locomotive back on track…and hey, while you’re at it – let’s toss in the possibility of a serial killer hunting your heroine down from your latest book? Is it simply fiction treading on real-time events, drummed up by an overactive mind, or has that mental fissure broken into something more tangible and tactile?

In “I Know Exactly How You Die” from Director Alexandra Speith, the tormented author to speak of is Rian (Patel), who is almost at the finish line of not only his latest book, but his relationship with his girlfriend, and has taken to checking in at a local motel for some productive peace and quiet in the hopes of polishing off his work before sending it out. His subject in the book is Katie, a woman working as a drug counselor who is being stalked by a ruthless killer, and the more that he writes, the fiction begins to meld into a realistic state – trust me when I tell you that this story has a pulse, and a very volatile semblance of itself. May I also offer up a nice, shiny gold skull to the other half of this decent into poetic lunacy to Stephanie Gomes Hogan, who plays the second half of this successful presentation as Katie – her solid delivery and convincing results as the heroine only solidifies the film’s winning formula.

As the movie rolls along, the blend of horror and very dark comedy is worked into a concoction that is fun to ingest, and as the audience sees how this work of fiction grows legs and runs amok for the remainder gives all fans of the multi-ingredient recipe cause for celebration. With Patel’s portrayal of the at-times goofy lead man who just wants to plow through his work under the crushing weight of his agent, there’s so much here to look forward to, with the creative illusion of a carefully-constructed storyline, then almost the Frankenstein-like breaking of the chains to let said story terrorize the locals, “I Know Exactly How You Die” will more than surely appeal to horror fans who appreciate some chaos in the inventiveness of it all. When the credits rolled, I felt relieved in the knowledge that this film was one I’d absolutely revisit, and be glad to turn the pages on if this was in fact in book form…as long as what I wasn’t reading wasn’t generating into real form and attempting to kill me.

“I Know Exactly How You Die” will be available on VOD services on April 7th, 2026.