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President's Day (2010) KILL COUNT is the fifty-fourth video of The Kill Count.
Overview[]
Two high school students, Tom and his girlfriend Tara, are murdered in Tom's home by an unknown killer dressed in an Abraham Lincoln costume with an axe.
The next day, class joker Barry Olsen is quickly attracted to new student Joanna Bolen. After skipping class, Barry is advised to run in the student body election by Officer Kennedy in order to get to know Joanna. Some time later, one of the candidates, Maxine, is murdered outside the school by the killer. The next day, Maxine is reported missing along with Tom and Tara. Although this causes worry to Principal Huck, it doesn't bother the student favor to win, Chelsea Blythe, as it will increase her chance at winning.
Huck assigns Kennedy and Detective Kurtz to investigate the disappearances, but they don't get very far with it. At night, the killer kills another candidate, Christian, and one of the election advisors, Ms. Heath, at Christian's house. News of this reaches Kennedy, who also finds notes that sign him as the killer. Kennedy tells Barry to investigate the letters. Barry shows them to various students, but is only given an answer by the janitor, who shows him a picture of a ghostly Abraham Lincoln and also tells him that the killer resides in the school's fallout shelter.
Some time later, two other candidates, Billie and Dennis, are killed. The janitor notices the killer, and tries to fight him, but the killer stabs him with the mop handle and crushes him with a bucket, killing him. Joanna then tells Barry that she is dropping out of the election to help with Barry's campaign, which is neck and neck with Chelsea. Barry agrees to stay in the election if Joanna helps him with investigating the murders and disappearances. Kennedy then informs Barry that another candidate, Eddie, and teacher, Mr. Wright, are missing and that Kurtz only found Wright's house in disrepair and his dog dead. With Joanna's help, Barry goes to investigate Wright's house, but only finds Wright's dentures before Kurtz arrives.
Afterwards, another candidate, Michelle, is killed, which causes Huck and Vice Principal Mackey to cancel the election. The killer then kills maths teacher Mrs. Tina Frederica, secretary Madeline and Huck himself. Kennedy then informs Barry that science teacher Mr. Roemer is the lead suspect as he recently quit and is attempting to frame Kennedy for a past incident. Kennedy also tells Barry that Joanna has a file from when she assaulted a teacher, but, when he confronts her about this, she tells him that the teacher was sexually abusing her and she storms off, leaving Barry alone in the investigation. Barry goes to Roemer's house, only to see Roemer get murdered by the killer.
Kennedy and Kurtz are given permission by Mackey to install a surveillance system in the school. Barry informs Roemer's death to Kennedy, who sends Kurtz to Roemer's house, where he finds all the bodies of the victims and the missing people, several of the bodies burned by sulfuric acid, as well as a note indicting Roemer of the murders. Barry then hears from the newscaster that Wright and Eddie's bodies had to be identified by dental records.
With the murders supposedly over, Mackey reinstates the election. Joanna and twins Jenna and Barbara plot for Barry to win. Joanna lures Mackey outside and the twins play a tape recorder of Chelsea belittling the entire student faculty and they change their votes to Barry. Although Barry has the highest votes, Chelsea is the victor, as Mackey is held hostage by the killer. Joanna goes to the bathroom, where she finds the twins dead and is abducted by the killer.
Chelsea then finds a note supposedly from Kennedy to meet in the fallout shelter, but Kurtz discovers the killer killing Kennedy on the CCTV cameras. Barry goes back to Wright's house and finds that the dentures are gone. Chelsea finds a shrine to herself in the shelter and is face to face with the killer. The killer is revealed to be Wright, having faked his own death and killed all of her opponents because he is attracted to her.
Wright offers Chelsea to kill Joanna, but Chelsea instead lets her go, which quickly results in her death. Joanna escapes and runs past Kurtz, who is killed by Wright shortly afterwards. Barry arrives and, with Joanna's help, incapacitates Wright. They share a kiss until Wright yells at Barry "You weren't supposed to be president!", which results in Barry killing him with his axe.
Barry is elected student body president and the ending concludes with him being congratulated by Mackey, who only suffered a sprained neck, and the remaining students.
Deaths[]
Counted Deaths[]
- Tom - Axe to the head - 2 mins in
- Tara - Killed offscreen w/ axe - 2 mins in
- Maxine - Leg & foot cut off w/ axe - 11 mins in
- Christian - Impaled through mouth w/ trophy - 21 mins in
- Ms. Heath - Burned to death on stove - 21 mins in
- Billie - Nose melted off w/ hair straightener - 31 mins in
- Dennis - Arms & legs hacked off w/ axe - 32 mins in
- Janitor - Stabbed w/ mop handle, head crushed w/ bucket - 36 mins in
- Michelle - Eye stabbed out w/ pen - 45 mins in
- Mrs. Frederica - Decapitated w/ paper trimmer - 50 mins in
- Madeline - Stabbed in eyes w/ scissors - 52 mins in
- Principal Huck - Impaled through mouth w/ bass guitar - 52 mins in
- Mr. Roemer - Suffocated w/ plastic bag - 56 mins in
- Eddie - Body found all f’ed up from sulfuric acid - 1 hr 2 mins in
- Jenna - Found dead w/ pins all over her body - 1 hr 9 mins in (body found)
- Barbara - Found dead w/ pins all over her body - 1 hr 9 mins in (body found)
- Officer Kennedy - Seen being hacked to death on CCTV w/ axe - 1 hr 11 mins in
- Chelsea Blythe - Hacked in stomach & a whole bunch more w/ axe - 1 hr 15 mins in
- Officer Kurtz - Arm hacked off w/ axe - 1 hr 15 mins in
- Mr. Wright - Face scaled, then half-decapitated w/ axe - 1 hr 17 mins in
Non-Counted Deaths[]
- Checkers - Found dead
Trivia[]
- This is the first 2010 movie covered on the Kill Count.
- James informs that he was hesitant to post this video because of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, but had to do it. Then he informs them to call the National Hotline because violence is not the answer.
- This is the first kill count to get a physical release. As the kill count was a special feature on the lastest blu ray release of the film