Office Killer

A magazine editor named Dorine, due to budget cuts, is forced to work from home, living with her eccentric and infirm mother. One night, Dorine is called to help fix the computer of a co-worker, Gary Michaels, who is electrocuted while trying to fix the wires. Dorine dials 911, but hangs up when the call is answered. She places the corpse on a cart, rolls it down to her car, loads it in her trunk, and takes it home, placing it in her basement. Then, seemingly without reason, she goes on a murder spree.

She begins her spree by murdering another office worker, Virginia, but later murders two young Girl Scouts who arrive at her door to sell cookies. The young girls join the other corpses in the basement, and Dorine is seen eating the cookies while working on her two-years-outdated new old stock Apple PowerBook 100 series laptop.

Dorine sends messages from Gary to the remaining office workers, implying he is alive. Late one night, Dorine murders Steve, the office mail courier, adding his corpse to the collection in her basement. The next day, Dorine strangles Kim, her disgruntled co-worker who has been fired, in the stairwell. Kim escapes, but is unable to identify her attacker.

The next assault is the office manager, Norah Reed, who awakens in the basement, surrounded by dismembered bodies, after being knocked out by Dorine on a lunch date. After dispatching, with a kitchen knife, Norah's boyfriend Daniel who had come searching for her, Dorine murders Norah after taunting her for embezzlement and making her and other employees work from home.

The last scene shows Dorine, after her mother's death, setting fire to her basement, then, sporting a blond wig and makeup and with the office manager's head in a bag on the seat beside her, driving away in her car, and circling a newspaper job ad for an office manager.

Office Killer was one in a planned series of low-budget horror movies by veteran indie producer Christine Vachon, with these films being intended to have budgets of around $300,000.^[2]

In addition to its U.S. theatrical release, it also received small theatrical releases in Australia, Japan, and some Western European countries.^{[citation needed]}

In February 1999, the film was released on DVD and VHS in the United States by Dimension Home Video and Buena Vista Home Video.^[4]

In 2004, it was released on DVD in Australia by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment South Pacific.^[5] In 2012, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment reissued it on DVD in the United States, with the company also handling several other Dimension reissues. In April 2020, worldwide distribution rights to the Miramax and pre-October 2005 Dimension library were acquired by ViacomCBS (now known as Paramount Skydance),^[6] with Office Killer being one of the films included in the deal.^[7][8] The Dimension Films/Miramax library had previously been controlled by The Walt Disney Company when Office Killer was first released.

Vinegar Syndrome released the film on 4K UHD Blu-ray in 2026.^[9]