Fresh Meat 2026 Film Review

Youtubers making there own movies very rarely if ever is a good thing as nine times out of ten they are really bad. Yet now we have what is perhaps the biggest if not they are certainly one of the biggest horror Youtube Channels out there making there own horror movie and it's that very film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today as i'm a fan of there channel and so then join as I review the film that has some shorts that could make for a good feature length film with the film in question being called simply just "Fresh Meat" enjoy.

Here is usually where they where there would be a summery of the films plot but since this is an anthology film there really isn't a plot outside of the films wrap around segments which feature a kid feeding this demon refrigerator meat and in return it shows her the shorts. That's really it as there's nothing really connecting the shorts together outside of those wrap around segments and that's fine as not every single anthology film needs to tie the shorts together and given the fact that all of these shorts where made pretty much prior to being selected to be in this film that is something that does make the most sense as there's no way that anyone involved with the making of the shorts would have known what the other was up to. That being said however tho it still would have been nice if there was something connecting the shorts together like for example Heavy Metal had the glowing orb connecting all of the shorts and Tales From The Crypt of course had the Cryptkeeper as the host both of which does prove that you can have these connecting elements in a film or a TV show and it would work but again given the fact that these shorts where made before being added to the film it would have been impossible for the teams to get together and come up with something and even tho it would have been nice if there was some sort of running plot all throughout the film that connected them all together it wasn't something that was needed as due to the fact that the Dead Meat Youtube Channel does have alot of fans going into the film alot of people are going to eat this film up regardless of it's lack of a plot in the first place in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Elle Riot Fox as Jessica , Aidan Armstrong as Tchotchke and one of this films directors Béla Baptiste. Also starring in this film is Benjamin Baraad , Finn Bell , Brett Brooks as The Realtor , Joshua Chislett , Vincente DiSanti as The Vape Zombie , Ethan Droze , Samuel Dunning as Mike , Kyle Gazak as Jim , Haiku , one of this films writers , producers and directors James A. Janisse , Kelsey Lea Jones as Lexi , Jaci Kjernander as Recaller 2 , MK Kopp , Thomas Lorber as Recaller 1 , Chris Mayers as Sam , Andrea Orta as Selena , Brady Palubiski , Tim Smink , Jonnie Stapleton , Sarah Stephens as Katy , Vichhay Tek , Dolly Lewis as herself Rachel Williamson and one of this films executive producers Chelsea Rebecca.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. The fact that we have some really good in this film is something that is truly shocking as well to be frank here all of this films actors aren't known actors or are at the very least very little known and to be fair there they all do pull off there roles really well with the fact that they very little known actors being something that does help you more to see the character rather then the actor with this being something that does help you buy into there performance alot more and while of course James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca are perhaps the most well known out of all of this films actors due to the Dead Meat Youtube Channel and cameoing in Scream 2022 you do still buy there performances as they are not that well know to mainstream audiences. Due to the fact that the alot of the films actors aren't listed as playing there characters it is hard to say who the best actor in the film but at a stretch it would have be Dolly Lewis who does appear in the short film "What's In Your Bag?" with her playing this sick and twisted version of herself and it is something that does work beautifully for the darkly comedic tone that that short film is going for with her own natural charm really coming through in this film. With the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that the scripts for this film are just so good that all this films actors really have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Due to this film of course being an anthology film it is hard to fully judge it's characters as thy switch them out every few minuets but for the most part the characters in this film really are serviceable characters. With some shorts having better characters then others this is something that is to be expected in an anthology format as the makers of this film did do the work to give us some good characters alot of the time and while this isn't something that is spread across the whole film eve those that have bad characters in them still work as films yet there are alot of characters in this film that come across as being unlikable due to the fact that the makers of that film didn't take the time to give us anything likable about them. Case in point here the main male character in the vaping short is meant to be this likable but still pretty dumb person and yet due to how he acts to what is possibly his girlfriend he does come across as being unlikable and therefor when these people do come and kill you don't feel sad for him rather you feel joy that he's dead and then you feel sad that his girlfriend gets shot and killed for literally no reason and alot of the film is like this as they will give you a short that has characters you like in them but then it will follow that one up with characters that aren't that likable and while this is something that couldn't really be helped as these shorts where made before this film was put together there should have been some kind of quality control with someone making sure that the selected shorts had these characters that you don't want to see die and there for feel bad for them when they do eventually die.

All of this films shorts do take on a different form of horror with "Why Did You Stop Me?" telling it's story from the point of view of a car dashcam and a police officers body cam which gives that film a unique look. With "Closing Hour" being an animated short film that has vibes that remind you of films like Heavy Metal or The Spine Of Night and heck that short is tied for the best short in the whole film along with the absolutely bonkers and insane "Demon Bus" with "Closing Hour" being a science fiction horror short et at a story that is closing up with that film not being afraid to give us some really gory and out there stuff with film not really having alot of dialog with the two main characters but it also didn't need to have any dialog as all of the action is told from the visuals and those alone are really striking with the animation not really being that highly detailed. Which is something that does remind of The Spine Of Night as the character designs in that film aren't that highly detailed much like this film and much like this film both films are a throwback to films like Heavy Metal and yet this short film is still alt of fun ad is very easy to follow and while it is hard to picture it being turned into a full length film as a short film it is really good as you can tell that the films director Tim Smink did have alot of fun making this film and while he might not be the best new voice in horror out there as there's not really alot of creative scares in this short film he does have a unique idea of doing a horror animated film and that is something that if he did choose to make more horror films is something that he could work on and develop alot more as he does have all of the potential out there to be a good horror director again if he chose to make more horror films that is.

One of the things that I was looking for in this film was a short film that could be turned into a feature length film as that to me shows you if the short film has potential or not and well there where at the very least two shorts that did have that potential. Those being the first short "Earworm" and "Demon Bus" and while Demon Bus is one that wouldn't get a theatrical release as it's just a bit to out there for a mainstream audience to fully get behind it is a fil that you very easily could see doing well enough as a direct to DVD movie where it could then become a cult hit film and be allowed to truly shine as the concept of someone buying time to go on this bus that is driven by and has a literal demon as it's passenger that will try to kill you isn't something that screams a hit film but it is something that screams a cult hit film. On the other hand "Earworm" is a franchise that is just waiting to be made as the whole idea of someone hearing this song either on Tiktok or on Youtube or wherever then then slowly bein driven mad by it to the point where they kill either themselves or worse there loved ones only to have there attack be filmed and posted online whilst there humming the song thus starting the cycle all other again is a good hook to have for a film and if the makers of this film where smart they'd get to work on turning it into a film as it's all there on paper all they need to is just expand on a few certain things and that's it, with shorts like "Jinkx" and "Why Did You Stop Me?" while they were good in this film neither of them have that feature film potential as there's really nowhere you can go with either film as with "Jinkx" while the idea of having two people stuck repeating what the other is saying even spreading it to other people is a good idea you can't do much with that idea and the same thing is true with "Why Did You Stop Me?" which is a film where the gimmick of seeing the film being told both from a body cam and a car dashcam would get old really quickly.

Some of the best shorts in this film where the ones that either had a unique look to them like "Closing Hour" or where just straight up pure insanity like "Demon Bus" for example. Yet there where also a few more hidden gems in there like for example "Earworm" and "What's In Your Bag?" but sadly this film is made up of alot more films that don't do anything clever and that don't have a good hook to them with this having the added effect of making alot of the shorts be to be quiet honest here boring to watch as there's one about a man that steals coming to appease something that on paper could have been cool but there's nothing to it as it doesn't do anything interesting while some of the shorts like "What's In Your Bag?" and "Dagnabit" or only there to be darkly funny the only one out of those two that is actually darkly funny is "What's In Your Bag?" as that film takes on the approach of a Youtube video or a reality show where someone just shows us what's in there bag and then goes and beats up the director and takes him to private room where some people can possibly kill him. Yet the rest of this films shorts just aren't much fun to watch with not alot of them having an interesting premise as alot of the time the premise is very basic and one where you can see the twist coming a mile away with the only one out ide of the already mentioned shorts that was interesting to watch being "Koko: The Invisible Dog" as it's about an invisible dog that get rabies and kills people with the short basically being "Cujo" but set in Japan and yet that concept worked enough to make it a somewhat enjoyable short film but its not really one that you could urn into a feature length film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time time of exactly one hour and fifty five minuets and thirty eight seconds. Which for an anthology film is pretty much a long running time to have and granted this film is only that long due to the fact that they a whopping THIRTEEN different shorts all of which are of various lengths to fit with this being something that could very easily put people off of watching this film as nobody would want to watch an anthology film that's almost two hours long that's just insane and it's even more insane when you take into account the fact that this film doesn't really have a plot to begin with and therefor it can't really justify being as long as it is in the first place. Yet even so this film still doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the film really does take the time to to fully develop its plot as alot of the films in this film do for obvious reasons have very underdeveloped plots and this was something that was always going to be an issue with this film but it is something that the makers of this film could have fixed by giving there respective short films running times that would allow or there to be some plot development with the makers of this film putting more and thought into the big twist ending then they did into the giving plot some actual plot development. The same thing is also true for the films character development as much like with the lack of plot development this is something that is understandable as these are short films after all and therefor you can't really expect there to be character development in a short film but again if these short films had a running time that did allow for there to be some character development then they would be all the more better of for it with the makers of this film putting more and effort into using a drone alot of the time then they did into giving it's characters some character development but I really will admit that this film really does gave some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. Whilst yes granted none of these films featured in this film had that big of a budget and there the films kills can't be that impressive for what little money everyone involved had to work with the kills did up looking as good as they going to be and while we don't get to see alot of the kills which is something that should never be the case with a horror film with a low budget film tho that is something that does make sense somewhat but in saying this tho it would have helped alot of the lesser films featured in this film if we did get to see some of the kills. With the best kill in the whole entire film being to the ex-wife in the films third short as all throughout the film we are le to believe that she is having a date night with her ex husband with them even talking about getting back together again but when strange things start happening at the house we see the husband walk through the front door which is when we get the reveal that alot of what we've been seeing is in the wife's head with it only being then that the monster she's been seeing sneaks up behind her dragging her away and killing and while yes this kill is done of screen it's everything leading up to the kill that makes it worth while as we do get that big twist of the whole thing basically being in her head that is the very thing that makes it interesting as she did think up some really creepy stuff involving her ex husband with the rest of the films being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is film that is hard to judge fairly as while Dead Meat fans such as myself will love this film it's also hard to call the film good as the film on the whole barely has a handful of good shorts but the fact that they are the only Youtube horror channel to openly say that we've made and released a professional film is still something that is to be commended and isn't something to be looked down upon in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and a well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then noys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Mickey's Slayhouse Film Review

For some odd reason both Popeye and Mickey Mouse are really popular characters to turn into horror villains. With there being yet another horror film where Mickey Mouse is the main villain with the only difference being unlike alot of the rest of them this one is American and actually calls the villain Mickey Mouse and that's it and so then join me as I review the film that also goes by the even less inspired name Murder Mouse with the film in question being called simply just "Mickey's Slayhouse" enjoy.

The plot of this film is a bunch of teens go to an abandoned theme park where they try to survive being attacked by someone dressed as Mickey Mouse and his cult. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty bad. If this plot sounds at all similar to any of you that have seen these Mickey Mouse horror movies it's because it's quite literally the exact same plot and set up as Mouse Of Horrors and it didn't work back in that film and it doesn't work here in this film either. Due to the fact that here it's so obvious that there just copying what that film did with out adding anything new to it and therefor it just makes it seem lazy heck if your going to have your version of Mickey Mouse be in theme park then why not make the theme park an obvious knock of of Disney Land and just have fun with it an yet the film doesn't do that it doesn't have any kind of fun with who the villain is an therefor the plot of the film can't be that good as while this film was always going to have a bad plot to it there's no way around that what could have been done was to make the plot so bad that you end up really laughing at it and end up having fun with the plot and yet due to the fact that everything is played super straight in this film that can't happen with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining an nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Kaitlyn Jackson as Lucy , Matthew Perl as Christian , Rebi Jordan as Bianca and Levi Peterson as Chad. Also starring in this film is Michael Ronan as Psycho Bob , Brooklyn Eve as Isabella , Jayd Swendseid as Carter , James Hawthorn as Jack , Lemuel Teferra as Marcos , Jazlyn Nicolette Sward as Suzee , Adam Abdsameia as Johnny , Anna Keene as Olivia , David Listmann as Young Mickey , Andrew Mena as Nate , Annika Ross as Sierra , Amanda Torquato as Princess and Dan Gaul as Mickey Mouse.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With these types of horror films you do usually know that some things will be bad and sadly one of those things is the acting and this is something that does allow you to go in with small expectations and thank god this is the case as the acting in this film isn't all that bad but it's also not all that good either as for every good performance we get in the film we get two or three bad ones with it being clear that this films co-writer , co-producer and director Kjell Dokkvarr doesn't know how to get a good performance and heck he must agree that the film isn't that good as n the films own credits he's listed as RK Gore and is listed as being a co-writer of the film. With the best actor in the whole entire being Rebi Jordan as Bianca as she even tho her character is just the stereotypical rich kid character she plays that kind of snobbish kid so well with her doing a really good job of making you hate her characters guts ad while yes she does have one or two scenes that aren't that well acted this is something that could be true for any film and given the fact that they most likely really didn't have the time to do a take to it's a wonder that her performance turned out as well as it did with her own natural charm really shining through in this film. With the acting that's in this film not really being heled by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities re even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality f the acting that's in this very film.

In a move that is also to be expected in a film like this none of the films characters are all that interesting. With them all being very one dimensional characters at best wit Lucy being the typical god girl who never does anything wrong , Christian is the typical good guy who Lucy has the hots for , Bianca is just a rich girl and Chad is just there that's how bare bones these characters are when the makers of this film could have gone out of there way to add literally anything to them that makes them interesting and yet they don't rather they keep them all being very one note characters and that doesn't make for interesting characters rather it makes all of the characters dull even Lucy's dad is a dull character as he comes across as being the typical worried dad who gets worried that his daughter is in danger because he hasn't picked the phone to him ONE time. Look you do have to expect badly written characters in horror films like this as the main focus of the film and the making of the film is never going to be on the characters that you want to see make it to the end rather it's going to always be on the fact that in this case Mickey Mouse is the villain but with there being more of these films then there are actual Mickey Mouse movies at this point the makers of these films have to do something to make there film stand out from the rest and what better way to do that then to have a decent script that has well written characters in it as this is something that will always make people come back to your film and make them remember your film alot more fondly and yet due to the fact that none of them do that they all end up with badly written with the only one to have decently written characters being Screamboat, with the makers of this film clearly not caring about putting in the effort to make well written characters and instead care about letting us know this film has Mickey Mouse as the main villain which if this was the first one of these Mickey Muse films then that would be understandable but it's not and therefor effort does need to be put into making the characters be as good as they possibly could be.

Whilst this film is nowhere near as bad as The Mouse Trap was as there is still some entertainment and effort to be found in this film The Mouse Trap is still the more memorable of the two films. Due to the fact that that film is so bad that it's good with us being able to laugh more at the film then with it whereas here with this film it's just bad as while you can't tell that this film was made cheaply as the makers of this film do there best to make it look like an expensive film which is to be commended but there still that air of cheapness all through the film with a good example of this being the costume that they use for Mickey Mouse as while it's not as cheap looking as the one used for The Mouse Trap where it was literally just a man in Mickey Mouse mask and a hockey shirt. Here in this film the costume looks like something that you'd find made by a fan of the character online and the head of the costume looks two big and misshapen which given the fact that in the world of this film this costume is meant to be a mascot costume is something that does make sense but also in the world of the film the costume should look better due to the fact that it is a mascot costume for this theme park and yet the whole thing just looks cheap when it really shouldn't be as this is something that we do spend a good chunk of the film looking at and yet the whole costume to looks like something that you'd expect to see in a badly done Mickey Mouse parody and heck there's nothing even scary with the costume which makes it look like the makers of this film just went with the costume because of the fact that it looks the most like Mickey Mouse and they can therefor put it on the films poster to trick poor people into buying there film.

Not really helping things is the films terrible sound quality as alot of the time hits that should sound like they hurt instead at best sound like someone is being lightly slapped on the face. With even Lucy during her first scene at high school sounding like her part of the conversation was re-recorded in a poorly done up room and it does get to the point where it is distracting as you spend half of the time wondering why the sound quality is so bad the other half trying to think of where the sound was recorded as it does make the film look cheap wit alot of cheap horror films like this one do at the very least take the time to make sure the sound sounds good whereas here it comes across as people just cared more about making money quickly then they did about making sure the sound was good. This is something that does come into play with the films music as well as alot of the time you genuinely can't hear it in scenes where adding in spooky music would help with the atmosphere and yet you can hear quite clearly and very loudly over scenes with the characters arriving to the park this is something that wouldn't be a bad thing if the music was just meant to be something that was played over the radio but it's not as we hear it barely several other times all throughout the film but to just to go back to the sound a second there should have been alot more love put int making the films sound be as could as it could be as we do afterall need to hear what's going on and when that's only happening a little over more then half of the time then there's a big issue here. with the same thing being true for the films music as adding in scary music when we are with Mickey or when anyone of his cult members kills someone would help to make the film more scarier as the music is just as important to a horror film then anything else is.

Speaking of the cult they were perhaps the best of the film due to the fact that the very idea of Mickey Mouse having a cult is something that could work in a film like this one. Yet the film oddly enough doesn't spend alot of the time with them as we really only see them towards the end of the film when they start killing Lucy and her friends and her dad when something this cool and this original ks something that should have been built up a little bit more like maybe we see the someone for the neck down kill someone and the rest of the kids think that it's just Mickey only for it to be revealed that he's the head of a cult and that they worship him as that would be alot more fun to see other then he gives them these drugs that make you crazy which is the excuse that the film goes with. Heck that would have even been a good way to get a Minnie Mouse character in the film and have her be Mickie's main lover interest and yet they don't do that with the whole idea of Mickie being the head of this cult not really playing into the film which makes it feel pointless as the teens that kill Lucy's friends could just be psycho kids and nothing would need to changed about who those kids are and why there dressed the way that they are or acting they way that they are and yet the makers of this film chose to make them a cult and yet they don't do anything new with that idea they basically forget all about it not long after they introduce that concept and while we do get to see members of the cult get to be creative with there kills and see that they have managed to infiltrate the high school to sell there drug we don't get to see anything fun be done with that idea.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty two minuets and five seconds. Which whilst that is pretty much the exact running time that you'd expect a film like this one to have it's also a film that really didn't need to be as along as it is as you very easily could have gotten this film down to one hour hour and fifteen minuets just by cutting out alot of the filler scenes with the side characters like the sales clerk and Lucy's dad for example and yet for one reason or another the scenes with Lucy's dad were deemed important enough to keep into the film this is despite the fact that all of his scenes add exactly nothing to the plot of the film with this film having just about the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet despite this in a movie that was to be expected this film doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the film doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot as the film has alot of filler scenes in it that eat up screen time that would have been better used giving the film scenes that do further develop its plot with the makers of this film putting more thought and effort into making sure that we know Mickey Mouse is the main villain of the film then they did into giving the film some plot development. The same thing is also true for the films character development as we get to find nothing about any of the films characters we don't get to find out why Lucy's dad is this protective of her we don't get to find out anything about Lucy as a character and heck we barely get to find why the films main villain is killing people in the first place with the makers of this film being more focused on giving us obviously CGI fire then they were in giving us character development but I really will admit that this film really foes have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very was in all honesty really good. The films kills are by far the best part of the film as you can tell that's where the makers of this film were putting alot of there care into them and into making them be as fun and as creative as they can do and while yes a few of them do happen off screen which is something that will always be a bad thing the few that happen on screen look really good and show of the films pretty decent make up effects. With the best kill in the whole film being the death of Chad as we see get seduced by this female cult member with her leading in him into a room where they can be alone and when she does get on top she pulls out a knife and goes to town stabbing him and while we don't get to the knife entertaining him alot of the time we really don't need to as we can work what's going on based off what we're seeing happen on screen and while we don't get any good make up effects in that scene we do get a good idea of idea of just how crazy that this cult really is and that is something that is important to the films plot as it makes them look like just as big of a threat then what Mickie Mouse himself is and while it would have been nice if we got to see Mickie do that kill as we barely get to see him kill anyone in this film the kill itself worked abut as well as it was ever going to do with the films kills being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it really doesn't matter if you call this film Murder Mouse or Mickey's Slayhouse the film itself is still really bad and while it's not as bad as The Mouse Trap was it's also not as good as the awful Mouse Of Horrors was either as this film is just nothing film that will be forgotten about five minuets after you've watched it as there's nothing memorable about this film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked abut all of the good and a swell as all of the bad things that are in this very film kin this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 3.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Clayface Film SPOILER FILLED Film Review

Horror and superhero films are things that don't usually go together all that well and when they do it's more often a fifty fifty on if the film will be any good or not. Therefor it was really shocking that for only there third film in the DCU that DC Studios would be doing a horror film based on a character that hasn't gotten any love interms of live action media and well this was a film that I had to see just to see how the film would handle certain aspects of this character and so then join me as i give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the film that might as well be set in Metropolis with the film in question being called simply just "Clayface" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when actor Matt Hagen has his face brutally slashed by the mobster boyfriend of a girl he was with he gets experimental surgery to get his face fixed but when the surgery starts turning Matt's face into clay he decides to see revenge on those that sold him out. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. To be fair to this film it's plot is alot more better then the plot of the 2026 Supergirl movie as you can tell that there is some effort to tell a decent story in this films plot no doubt thanks to the fact that this film is co-written by the always busy Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini. The films plot as good as it can be alot of times is also a flawed plot as the plot essentially has no stakes to it as Matt looses nothing if he doesn't archive his goal therefor why should we the audience want to see him reach it and when you factor that into it the whole plot does start to fall inwards yes there are things about the plot that do work and those things should be called out but having one or two good things in the plot doesn't make up for the fact that the plot also doesn't work as well as it could have done with this possibly being due to the fact that Mike Flanagan is perhaps stretching himself a bit thin and therefor there will project that do suffer because of it ad this film with it's very thin plot does seem to be one of them with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen / Clayface and Naomi Ackie as Dr. Caitlyn Corr. Also starring in this film is David Dencik as Markos Szabo , Max Minghella as John Borrelli , Eddie Marsan as Frank Fitzpatrick , F1: The Movie star Nancy Carroll as Hildie Love , Joshua James as Corey Bowery , Wil Coban as Bones and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote star Joana Ribeiro as Mia Torrez.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. Look to be frank this films acting shouldn't have been as good as it is as due to the fact that there are no named actors in this film outside of Naomi Ackie and therefor there was no reason to believe that this films acting would be as good as it is and yet all of this films actors do give us some really good performances with alot of them really shocking us with how good that they are in this film so much so that it is hard to picture anyone playing these characters in live action as that's just how good that this films actors are in this film. With the best actor in the whole entire film being Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen / Clayface as even tho he's only a young actor he still does pull of this role and this character really well and while those of us who watched the Dot And Bubble episode of Doctor Who would know that he is a good actor it still nice to see him prove that to us again only this time it's in a big budget film that could see him go onto bigger and much more better things with him being really good in this film both as the sane version of Matt and then later on as he goes more and more insane with his own natural charm really coming through in this film. With the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film. 

Doing the CGI for this film is The legends and the greats that are currently over at Legacy Effects and Red Visual Effects. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. This film really didn't need to have alot of CGI in it due to the fact that this films story really doesn't demand and to this mind this film does really good as the film really only uses CGI to either create some CGI trains , Clayface himself and to extend the films sets and that's really it and that is a great way to use CGI with this being why this film had a tiny budget as it doesn't need to have alot of effects in it. With the effects themselves ranging from OK like when they change Leavsden Studios to make it look like Gotham with the same thing being done for parts of Liverpool and Stockport as well but it's when the film adds in things like CGI shadows and trains that the CGI in this film does start to look bad with the makers of this film nor really caring about that part of the film as there was no need to add in CGI trains as you could have done with that a miniature and while they of course had to do the shadows in certain scenes in CGI there still could have been more of an effort to make the effect look a little bit better just by giving the shadow more of a fluid movement to it and not have it look like it was stopmotion animated which given the fact that Aardman also did some work on this film might have been the case.

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There has been alot talk online about how badly Gotham looks in this film and after finally seeing the film. Yeah it looks really bad as it looks to clean with there being no dirt and and grim on the city to make it feel lived in and heck the only crimes that we see in the film are the ones being committed by the films main characters which does make this films version of Gotham feel more like Metropolis and heck if this film was set in Metropolis then no one would be mad about how they made the city look as Metropolis is meant to be this clean city where crime very rarely happens whereas Gotham is meant to be the complete opposite Gotham is meant to essentially be hell on earth and yet in this film it looks like a really nice to place to live. Yet if you were to contrast this with the 1989 Batman film that films version of Gotham looks lived it and it looks dirty and grimy with it being a character onto it's own and heck even going to as recent as The Dark Knight Trilogy Gotham in that film was still a character in its own right and while it wasn't as over the top with the dirt and grim like it is in Batman 1989 it does still look lived in and real here it looks like a film set as the city has no character to do it and due to it taking place in Gotham you'd expect there to be a Batman in this film and yet he never shows up even tho this is the perfect case for him to handle this is the first introduction to Gotham in the DCU and the city feels like that it's missing that extra something to make it feel like Gotham and while yes there have been more cleaner versions of the city before just look at both the Birds Of Prey movie and the nineteen sixty six Batman TV show and movie as proof of that but when it comes to Birds Of Prey that film was set further along another universes timeline therefor we could believe that Gotham had a bit of clean up and the nineteen sixty six Batman TV and movie are set in a world where everything is over the top and silly therefor it makes sense for Gotham to look clean in there as well but here for it's debut appearance it should have looked more grimy and more dirty as that is how Gotham is supposed to look.

Look to be fair to this film it is going to make back it's production budget of anywhere between $30 to $44 millions dollars. With the film so far making $46.5 million dollars with a good chink of that coming from the American box office which does already make this film a very modest hit for Warner Bros and after the very bumpy start that Supergirl got DC Studios right now really did need a win at the box office and it does look like that the film that they had next to no faith in due to the fact that they barely promoted the film and promoted the heck out of Supergirl is actually going to do some serious business at the box office with this being helped by the fact that outside of Wildwood there really isn't any big release film coming out and therefor of course people are going to go and see the latest comic book movie which in this case just so happens to be this film. This is where the film being a horror film might actually help the film out as the film is being released right around the corner from halloween and therefor people are looking for films to scare them and what better way to get you in the mood for halloween then to watch a comic book movie that's also a horror film and this film having a very modest budget there is a good chance that it might force the major studios to look into ways to reducing the budgets of the films that don't need to be that expensive as this is a film that didn't need to cost anywhere near $200 million dollars and because of the fact that it was made for alot less then that it does mean that this film could then feasibly become a modest hit at the box office which in turn means that everyone involved with the making of this film is going to be getting a nice payday something which they wouldn't have gotten with the release of Supergirl.   

For one reason or another this film spends alot of time with Matt in his normal form and so little time with him going around killing everyone who has wronged. Whilst fair enough this might well have been done to build up tension and to get us to like his character that way we can feel more for him when he does become a villain but in doing that it robs us of the chance to see this character become more and more unhinged as when he does finally snap after an incident of a plane it does come out of nowhere whereas if the film had shown him as not being the most mentally stable person not from the get go but from when he first got his face cut then that scene where he does snap wouldn't come out of nowhere and it feel like the next step in the characters downfall and yet for one reason or another the makers of this film instead chose to keep him sane for alot of the film without even hinting of him going insane or loosing his grip on his sanity. While they do try to do what Joker did so well by having him fall for someone only for it to turn out that she doesn't love him back what made that idea work so well in that film and not in this one is the fact that we never saw if Sophie had a boyfriend or a husband the only thing we knew of her was that she had a kid and that was it and therefor when we see her acting in love with Arthur Fleck it does make it seem possible that the two of them really are in love with each other whereas here in this film not only do we see that Caitlyn is dating someone but we also get told it therefor seeing him lust after her just doesn't make all that much sense and it takes up screen time that could have been better used in showing Matt start to loose more and more of his sanity.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty two minuets. Which to be frank is a perfectly solid running time for this film as this is a film that really doesn't need to be that long in the first place as outside of the main character and the plot there's nothing to really set up in the film but in saying this tho there are times where the film could have been both shorter and longer as the film does have parts that feel like that they are to long like the whole portion of the film with Matt not doing anything like Clayface at all and the sequence where he does start to kill people that could have been spread all throughout the entire movie with this film having more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. With this film not really using its running time all that wisely as this film really doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot as while the film is yes a slowburner it doesn't have the time to be that and therefor it did need to spend more time of fully developing its plot and alot less time on alot of pointless scenes as all they do is eat up screen time that could have been spent on scenes that add anything to this films plot with the makers of this film being more focused on giving us pointless scenes with Matt and Caitlyn then they are in giving us a well developed plot. This is also true for the films character development and whilst yes you could very well argue that Matt might his character development in future DCU movies and TV shows just looking at this one film he doesn't get any character development at all with the same thing also being true for the rest of the films characters as none of them get any kind of character development whatsoever with the makers of this film putting more thought and effort into giving us scenes with Matt telling us his acting career is over because he got a few scars even tho he could still do horror films and drama films then they did in giving any of the films characters character development but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing it tho.

So now then as this is a horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. The films are kills are to be honest the best part of the film as that's where it feels like an actual Clayface movie and not something that is more afraid of being a villains movie with it being helped by the fact that we do get to see alot of really creative kills that make as full extent of the hero or in this case villains powers as they all involve him turning himself into clay to kill someone which is really creative and while yes there are a few duds in there like for example the death of Mia Torrez and when we see his shadow deliver the killing blow. With the films best kill being the death of Markos Szabo as neat the end of the film after he's killed Mia right infront of him Matt pins Markos to the ground and cuts his own face open in the exact same way that Markos did near the start of the film only because now Matt's blood will automatically come back him thanks to procedure he has in this film when it alot of does spill on to Markos's face it right right starts going back into Matt pulling out Markos's eye and killing him at the same time which is just such a creative use of Matt's powers with the kill itself being really gory and just flat out alot of fun to watch as you do always want the death of who we believe to be the main villain to be earned and really over the top which is exactly what it is here with the rest of the films kills being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall whilst this film is still ten times better then Supergirl 2026 was it's still not the great film that the DCU needed right now as while yes this film will make them money which is a good start it still needs to be a good film and sadly this is something that for the most part this film isn't in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and awe ell as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Crystal Lake SPOILER FILED TV Series Review

Yesterday I told you all that today I was going to be reviewing the show Crystal Lake and well i've finally just watched the final episodes of the show. Bottom line being this show is so worth watching and it's a show that I can't wait to talk to you all about as the more eyes that this show has on it the better it will be for the franchise in the long run as hopefully it will cause people who perhaps didn't know of the films to go and start watching them and so then join me as I give you SPOILER FILLED review of the show that is so good with the show in question being called simply just "Crystal Lake" enjoy.

The plot of this show is nine months after the supposed death of her son Jason Pamela Voorhees still believe that he is out there somewhere and when dead bodies start showing up in Crystal Lake the search is on to see if Jason is still alive or not. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. Whilst the show is rightfully getting alot of praise for it's acting all of which it does deserve by the way it also deserves to get alot of praise for the plot as the shows plot is so fresh and different as while it would have been very easy for the show to just tell a generic origin story for both Pam and Jason it doesn't do it. Instead it takes a more complex approach to its story by having it be wrapped around the idea of a mother not being able to express the fact that the her son quite literally cannot die which is something that does make the shows plot feel new and different as now the show gets to have this unique point of view one that really hasn't been all that considered before now that being what was Pam up to both in the time before and the time after Jason had first drowned and that is a unique way to look at things and to be fair the shows plot can now be something that no one thought that t would be and that's it can now be good and while yes the stuff with the hippies isn't that good as it doesn't really lead to anything all that interesting on the whole the shows plot was a really good one with the plot of this show also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees , William Catlett as Levon Brooks and Gwendolyn Sundstrom as Grace. Also starring in this show is Cameron Scoggins as Dorf , Devin Kessler as Briana Brooks , Nick Cordileone as Ralph , Daniel Stewart Sherman as Enos , Bernadette Quigley as Trudy , Joy Suprano as Rita , Danielle Kotch as Claudette , Phoenix Parnevik as Barry , Brian J. Carter as John Christy , Nancy Nagrant as Kay Christy , Dan Thompson as Steve Christy , Manon Gage as Harmony , Oona Roche as Willow , Olivia Macklin as Trish , Callum Vinson as Jason Voorhees and Hamish Linklater as Elias Voorhees.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With all of the shows actors turning in some really good performances and the show itself rightfully getting alot of praise for its acting as it is something that does deserve alot of praise with even the shows kid actors turning in some really good performances which in all fairness was something that that was quite surprising to see as nine times out of ten a kid actor in either a TV show or film is usually the worst of the lot and yet here they more then hold there own when acting with the shows more established actors. With the best actor in this show being Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees which granted is a slight cliche thing to say as nearly everyone who has seen this show agrees that she is just so good in it but it's also something that is worth saying again and to not say so would disingenuous as she is just so good in this show with her not only capturing the spirit of the Betsy Palmer version of the character but also adding enough of her own spin on the character to make Pam feel like her own and not just copying what Betsy Palmer did in 1980 with the character. With the acting that's in this very show really being helped by the fact that this shows scripts are just so good that all this shows actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show. 

The shows characters are a very mixed bag of affairs as while alot of them are really good there are some that just aren't that good. As not to sound like a broken record here but Pam was perhaps the best handled character out of the bunch due to the fact that in the first movie we really didn't get to spend alot of time with her before she revealed as being the main killer of the first Friday The 13th movie and therefor the makers of this film really went hog wild interms of fully fleshing out her characters as really the only thing that we knew about her character from that first film was the first that she loved her son Jason and that was it whereas here we do get to see what a devoted mother she was and we get to see things like her being a good bowler and her being a good cook both of which are small things yes but there also things that help to fully flesh out her character and make her more likable as not only a mother but as a character in her own right. However tho the show does have some really bad characters in it namely any of the hippie characters who are literally just there just to add to the body count as they add nothing to the shows plot which makes them feel like pointless characters with not one of them doing anything or saying anything that makes them memorable this is despite the fact that the characters themselves do appear in a very memorable sequence at the start of episode six and yet due to how very poorly done they are as characters we don't feel sorry for them rather we jump for joy when something bad does indeed happen to them and while Dork could be argued is a bad character as well he is meant to be more of the comedy relief character and in that regard he is harmless with him not really getting anything funny to say or do within the show itself and the same thing is true for the rest of the townsfolk as they harmless characters alot of which could have been alot more better.

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Whilst one might think that this film would cover all of the first Friday The 13th film this show stops just short of doing that. As the only real thing from the first film that it covers is the death of child Jason in episode one and the deaths of Barry and Claudette at the end of episode five and that's it and even then the show puts a spin on there deaths as while they do the whole POV thing that the first film did even down to having the character act very similarly to how they did in that film but when they die the episode then reveals that it wasn't Pam that killed them rather it was Grace which was honestly such a good reveal that when it happend I applauded the episode quite loudly as it was something that I never saw coming. Which is something that a good twist should do as we are all expecting them to just copy what they did in the first film and have it be Pam that kills them but by revealing that it was Grace that did it it then makes you wonder what else is going to happen differently from the first film and yet for no good reason that's where the show stops doing things in the first film as the rest of the show is mainly just its own thing that doesn't connect to the first film which is something that could be viewed as being a smart thing due to the fact that it does then open up the door for a potential second and maybe even third season of the show due to the fact that we know that Pam dies at the end of the first movie and with the show being centered around her it wouldn't make sense for them to just do the first movie right in the first season however now that the groundwork has been layed they could do it in a second or perhaps even third season as anything beyond that would be pushing the concept of the show a bit to far.

Whilst there are alot of things that do work in this show there are somethings that don't work in this show. Like for example the whole chemical plot that was just something that wasn't needed in the show as it doesn't add anything to Pam as a character nor does it add to her plot of trying to find Jason rather it's just there for the sake of being there which is a shame as te idea of introducing Jason's father Elias Voorhees is a good idea as it's a character that has quite literally never been seen in any of the films and therefor the makers of his show could have done anything that they wanted with him and as long as they kept him as Jason's dad it would have worked but they give him such a dull and boring plot to be in that it oddly feels like a huge disservice to the character. Another thing that really doesn't work for the show is the fact that the hippie characters and there plot is just pointless in the grand scheme of things as you could have had any group of characters play the role that those characters ended up playing and nothing would change as that's how little thought went into them heck once Harmony escapes Pam's rampage at the start of the episode 6 that character is never seen again in the rest of the show with her only being mentioned once very briefly by Enos in episode eight which begs the question of why have her character be the one to escape if your not going to do anything with her as you could have had her play a part of the third act of episode eight by haviug her trying to kill Pam only to end up getting killed by Jason which yes granted isn't much but it's still alot more better then forgetting the character even existed in the first place.

For a long time there has been a huge issue with the Friday The 13th timeline that being in Part 1 we see Jason as a kid at the end of the film and yet in Part II and every film after we see him as a full grown adult. This show actually explains how he was able to grow so tall in such a short amount of time as it turns out the chemical company that his dad working for was conducting experiments on Jason to make him super strong with this having the effect of giving him the skill to grow taller in such a short amount of time whilst still acting very much like a child altho this is something that does come at a cost as it does cost him his memories of his loved ones hence why he kills his father without a second thought and why he was close to killing Pam. This was quite frankly such a good idea as it does explain a huge plot hole that the films have had for literally decades now and it does it in a way that's inservice to the show as it explains why the people of Crystal Lake never found the body of a boy as by that point her would have started to grow his body into that of say a teenager or a pre-teen and while this is something that will get some fans of the franchise angry it is something that does work in the context of the show and given the fact that the movies never bothered to explain this change in height or appearance it did mean that the makers of this show could have done whatever they wanted to explain it and thankfully they went with the option that made the most sense whilst the stuff with the chemical company could have been left out of the show the stuff in episode seven which does give a very highly detailed backstory for Jason is something and whilst it wasn't perfect as we didn't need to know alot of things in that episode it is still something that works as an episode of this show.

Now then these episodes has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty nine minuets and twenty second. Much like with the first four episodes each episode of these episodes as a running time between forty three minuets and fifty two minuets with the final episode of the show being a shockingly short forty three minuets and and thirties seven seconds with each episodes running time clearly being dictated by the plot which is a good as even tho episode 8 would have benefitted from having the longer running time due to the fact that it does have the more stories to wrap up it would have felt like the the episode would have being stretched thin tho if it did have that longer running time with the show having more then enough plot there to cover those amounts  of running time in the first place. With the show not really using it's eight episode running time all that wisely due to the fact the show doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot all that well as there is alot of filler plot in this show and while the show didn't need to be eight episodes as you very easily could have done this show in a breezy five episodes having those extra three episodes does allow us more time in this shows world with the makers of this show putting more thought and effort into Jason's backstory then they did into giving the plot some actual plot development. This is something that does also effect the shows character development as while you could argue that Pam not getting any character development is due to her going more and more insane the more the show goes on which is something that does make sense the same thing is also true for the rest of the episodes characters infact Claudette regresses as a character as in one episode she becomes a born again Christian and renounces getting with Barry until marriage only for her in the very next episode renounce being a Christian just to get with Barry with this being due to the fact that they had to redo the opening of the first Friday The 13th film and that's really it with the makers of this show putting more thought and effort into how Bag Head Jason looks then they did into giving the characters some character development but i really will admit that this show really does have some really good pacing to it tho.  

So now then as this a slasher show that actually mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With the shows more over the top and gory kills being some of the better aspects of the shows more weaker episodes with there being at he very least one kill in every single episode with this being something that didn't really need to be in the sow and its something that does prove that the makers of this show really did know that in order to do a slasher show and do it well you do need to have at the very least one or two kills in the show. With the best kill in the whole entire show not really being one kill as it's the sequence where Pam does kill of alot of the hippie characters as we do get to see alot of fun and creative kills like for example one of them gets what might have been a knife threw his camera lens which was a fun kill to see with alot of them just getting stabbed a bunch of times by Pam with the thing that makes this set of kills truly stand out being the fact that it's important to the lore of the franchise moving forward as this is where Pam gets her hatred of any and all of the camp counselors that work there be it permanently or in the case of the hippies on a temporary bases which is something that is key to the films as the Pam that we see in the first Friday The 13th film kills everyone that works at the camp regardless of if there a camp counselor or not and heck an unseen Jason even gets to kill one of them of as one of the hippie's attacks Grace and Jason defending her kills him with there being some really good make up effect on all of the shows kills with the rest of the shows kills being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overall if you haven't done so yet go and watch this show as it is so good regardless of if your into really gory kills or not there is something in here for you as the show does have alot of really good acting and writing in it all of which make this show be alot more better then what it really had any right to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the i've talked about all of the good and a swell as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in tis very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very show with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.