Night Of The Dead Sorority Babes Film Review

Thousands of horror films are made and released every single year and sadly this film is one of them and as is apparently the trend of horror films this year it's not that good. With this film being one that not alot of you would have known and heck until a few short days ago I myself didn't even know about this movie and now watching I wish I still didn't know about this movie and so then join me as I review the film that lets you know right away just from it's title just how really bad that this movie is really going to be with the film in question being called simply just "Night Of The Dead Sorority Babes" enjoy.

The plot of this film is several college girl all find themselves wanting to join a sorority house only to discover that the house has a dark and sinister secret. 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 really bad with this films plot being laughably bad and just really dumb but not dumb in the same way that the Fast & Furious movies are dumb movies as nothing regarding this films plot not only doesn't work but it also doesn't make a whole lot of sense either with all of these girls all of which do seemingly go to the same college and yet when there at the sorority that there meant to be trying to join not only is there know college building in sight whatsoever but there the only girl that show up neither of which raises a red flag for any of these characters which would be fine if this was a comedy as then you could say that it's meant to be making fun of horror movies but it's not as it plays everything straight and that is something that does make this films feel all the more worse then that it actually is as now it just makes the writers of this film seem lazy as they know there not writing a good movie but can't be bothered to fix it with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and as well not rally being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Jessa Flux as Veronica Harper , Lynn Lowry as Kimberly Blake and this film co-director Angel Nichole Bradford as Blair Layne. Also starring in this film is Kelsey Livengood as Lucy Livengood , Anna Clary as Megan Anderson , Mel Heflin as Bambi Hamilton , Ashleigh Amberlynn as Victoria Vanderwall , Mia Katz as Roxie Spark , Samantha Hupp as Tiffany Hudson , Miranda Kilpatrick as Lilly , Ashley Hefner as Lex , Trisha Nicole Bagby as Sarah and Ann Myrna as Angelica Grace.

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 just as bad as you'd think that it would be. Which is something that does make sense for this film as all of this films actors aren't that well known actors in the first place and as such it would have been foolish to expect good or even great acting from tis films actors but when you don't even give us passable acting then you can tell right away that the film is in trouble as it's clear as day that this films co-directors Angel Nichole Bradford and Steve Hermann really do have no idea how to direct there actors with all of the actors in this film feeling lost and unsure of what performance to give something that makes this even more worse is the fact that Steve Hermann also wrote the script for the film so you'd think that he'd know the characters better then most and tell his actors what kind of performance to give but it's clear as day that the co-directors and the actors just didn't talk to each the at all with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does hurt the over all quality of the acting that's in this very film.

In what is an understandable move this film doesn't really have that high of a production value as the film was crowd funded through IndieGoGo. So this film was never going to have that high of a production value to it anyway as it does look like that they only raised just enough money to cover the makeup effects budget and not enough to cover anything else as alot of this films actors are actually pulling double duty with alot of them doing work behind the camera as well as in front of it which is a great way to save money and to this films credit it's the behind the camera stuff that looks better then what was put n infront of the camera as the special effects make up doesn't look that bad for what is a really small independent horror film and given this films incredibly small budget the cinematography doesn't look half bad but even with all o that in mind the makers of this film could have done alot of work to make sure that the film did have a higher production value then what it actually had as that is something that would make the film look so much more better then what it does as right now the film looks like every single low budget independent horror film ever made when adding to the films production value would only serve to make the film stand out as everything about this film does look cheap which again is something that's understandable given just hoe this film was funded in the first place but this is film that should have looked alot more better as the people infront of the camera are quite clearly far more talent behind th camera then they are infront of it.

Much like Saw this film is based off of a short film with the short film being called Sorority Babes but unlike Saw which either added or replaced actors from the short film. This film actually kept not only alot of the crew but also alot of the actors as well with alot of the actors even playing the same characters that they played in the short film but unlike Saw where the makers actually took the chance to improve upon what they had started in the short film here it seems like that the makers of this film just doubled down on what they did in the short film and didn't bother to expand upon or fix any issues that they had with the short film which only serves to make the makers of this film even more lazier then what they already are as now they've had the chance to fix any issues with the short film and make them better for the feature film adaptation and yet they openly chose not to when instead what they should have been doing is taking the time to fix any issues that the first film had instead of just doing nothing and assuming that the short film is perfect as just based off of this film that's not going to be the case whatsoever as no film short film or not is without fault as alot film makers know as alot of then do take the chance to fix things that made the original work not as good as they wanted it to be like for example with the second Blood And Honey film where the makers of that film took on board all of the criticism that the fans gave them in the first film and showed that they learned there lesson by applying them to the second film something that the makers of this film quite clearly didn't do or just straight up didn't want to do.

To say that this film main characters are bad characters would be like saying that Scooby-Doo is a dog as yeah this films character are just that bad. With the film not even bothering to give any of the main girls any sort of personality outside of the one trait that they display when there being interrogated by Roxy at the start of the movie and that's really it and while that might be enough for a short film it's damned near not enough for a feature length film as all of the main characters just have the same personalities with one of them being the dumb one of the group and we also have the smart one , the tough one , the b*tch and the h*rny one and none of them ever stray from that one personality trait every and heck we even have the very rarely seen personality type of the quite or shy one of the group with the makers of this film not even bothering to go into who these characters are as people something that they couldn't really do in the short film as there they had only a short amount of time to tell a story and get some kills in so it's forgivable in that format they didn't give the characters much in the way of personalities but now that it's a in a feature length film then the makers of this film really should have taken the time to fully flesh out if not all then at least some of it's main characters as then it would make the characters seem more like fully formed and thought out characters instead of being the one dimensional cardboard cut out characters that they actually are and yet because of the fact that this films writers are just lazy writers we end up with a bunch of characters that are going to be forgotten about in ten minuets in a film that's going to forgotten about in fifteen minuets.

For some strange reason the makers of this film thought it was a good idea to have some sort of mystery angel in it. Only they forgot to do one silly little thing and that's create and actually good mystery as the film tries to have a mystery going about how hurt this one girl at the start of the movie and yet when these two elder ladies come on screen it's painfully obvious that it's them as they just look evil and the film really doesn't do anything to try and hide that fact by giving us red herrings or even try to throw us the sent something which with the amount of characters that they have in the film is something that really could have done and while the film does get some credit for at least trying to do something different with the slasher genre by adding the supernatural in it the film does nothing with either the mystery angel that it's trying to do or the supernatural element that helps to make it stand out from all pf the other slasher films out there all of which combine to make both of those aspects of the film feel rather undercooked when instead those are the elements that should have gotten alot more focus and attention as they do help the film come at least somewhat more interesting then what it actually is and while yes granted there have been other slasher films that have had a supernatural element to them but there's not enough of them and so for us the audience it can still be considered and it's something that this film had the chance to do right and it's the same thing with the films mystery aspect as well as the film just straight up drops t an never mentions it again after it's pretty poorly done cold open and then expects you to remember who that character is at the end of the film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty minuets and one second. Which is pretty much the exact bogstanderd running time for all of these low budget slasher films with this film not really even having enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time either as being realistic here this film really only has enough plot there for about forty five minuets if that with this films plot being stretched thin by pointless scenes with the main characters where all they do is just get across there one character trait from the start movie and nothing really more then that thus goes without saying but this film really doesn't even use it's expanded running time all that wisely either as it doesn't give the main hero characters any kind of development or anything that makes them interesting or even likable for that matter where as the main villains of the film get one scene where they get across there backstory and why there doing what there doing and that's really it as even they aren't given anything in regards to a personality compare this to something like A Nightmare On Elm Street another supernatural themed slasher film with a strikingly similar running time and yet the makers of that film still managed to give there main villain Freddy Krueger tons of personality and yet the makers of this film couldn't even do that for that villains in this film which is something that really does make the makers of this film seem lazy but I really will admit that this film really does 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 fil 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 the best aspect of the film. As it's clear as day that this is were alot of the effort went when it came to making this film as this films kills whilst there not the most creative of kills as alot of the tike it does boil to someone being stabbed with a kitchen knife when the film does lean into it's supernatural aspect in it's kills that's when they get to be the most fun and creative to see in this film as we get see these to elder women do some damage to our main heroes in really creative ways but here's the thing tho because of the fact that the makers of this film haven't given us the audience a reason to care about it's main characters even surviving the film then how we are meant to feel anything when they get killed of a in a really brutal as if you want us the audience to actually feel something literally anything for these characters then you have to make us care for them and make us want to see them survive and make us want to see more of them and yet they and while the best kill of the film is quite easily the one where the shall we say bigger of the girls gest killed with the elder women take a picture of her and just move there fingers across the picture thus creating a scar on the head in the same way that it was done in the photograph which is a to be frank a really creative kill and is quite easily the best kill in this whole entire movie as it's just that creative of a kill in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if you have the chance to see this film do NOT take it as there's nothing of value to be gained from watching this film as it's just that bad and while the makers of this film do indeed get credit for at the very least having the courage to go out there and make an actual movie they still needed to have made a movie that's actually good and not something that is actually worse then Mouse Of Horrors was in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as 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 2.5 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 the official Twisted Childhood Universe fandom wiki page , 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.

The Monkey Film Review

There are dozens of movies that are based off of Stephan King books out there but Hollywood has started to adapt his short stories as well. As the master of horror himself really does like to make normal things seem alot more scary then what they actually are so then with one of those films just being released and it's the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the film that really does try to make a toy monkey scary with the film in question being called simply just "The Monkey" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when two brothers discover that there toy monkey can kill people at random the two set out to destroy it once and for all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us inn 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 as it's a plot that we really havn't seen before now with this films plot being oddly refreshing because of it and with this film being both written and directed by Osgood Perkins it's also a plot that's told really well with the film taking the time that it needs to set up it's plot and it's characters instead of just rushing through all of that something that would have been very easy to have done and while it is tempting to see where this film fits within the crazy of the Stephen King Universe what makes this films plot standout is the fact that it's not afraid to be this weird and goofy movie something that even the best Stephen King films are afraid to be and yet because of the fact that this films plot does involve a killer monkey it feels organic when this films plot does go into those weird moments which is something that does allow for this films plot to no only be unpredictable but also really fun as well with the plot of this film 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 film is Theo James as Hal and Bill Shelburn and Christian Convery as Young Hal and Bill. Also starring in this film is Tatiana Maslany as Lois Shelburn , Colin O'Brien as Petey Shelburn Jr. , Rohan Campbell as Ricky , Sarah Levy as Ida Zimmer , Adam Scott as Petey Shelburn Sr. , this films writer and director Osgood Perkins as Chip Zimmer , Tess Degenstein as Barbara , Danica Dreyer as Annie Wilkes , Laura Mennell as Hal's ex-wife and Elijah Wood as Ted Hammerman.

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. With all of this films actors turning in some really good performances with it being shocking that they didn't hire four sets of actors to play Hal and Bill and instead chose just to have the two actors with them both playing both roles and that is something that does work really well for this film as both of the actors manage to make both characters separate from one another and visually look different enough from one another that we the audience can easily tell them apart and while the rest of this films actors do indeed turn in some really good performances as well with the same thing also being true for Elijah Wood the best actor in this film is actually a tie between both Theo James and Christian Convery as while playing one character is hard enough there playing two characters at the same time with Theo playing the older version of the films main characters and Christian playing there younger counterparts which means that there jobs are now even harder as they keep there performances the same as each other to create continuity in the films performances something that both do with incredible ease with the acting that's in this film really being helped buy this films script as the the script for this film is just so good that all this films have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really 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.

The characters in this film to be frank aren't the best characters however that is something that could more a fault with the short story then it is this film. As with a short story you don't really have the time needed to fully develop your characters and we know from Longlegs that Osgood Perkins can create some really good characters when he wants to and yet because of the fact that he's adapting a short story he just can't create good characters as none of this films characters stand out as being particularly interesting or scary with the same thing also being true for the films main heroes as well as even tho there character arc is interesting the characters themselves just aren't that fun to watch with the worst offender of this being Petey Shelburn Jr. who despite the fact that he's acted really well by Colin O'Brien just isn't that interesting of a character with him being Hal's son which is also something that seems to be his whole personality as there's nothing to his character outside of the fact that his father is trying to stop this evil monkey from killing people and that's really it and that's not enough to make him an interesting an while his arc with Hal does mirror Hal's arc with Bill it's not done in a way that makes the characters interesting with all of this films characters being nothing more then one dimensional characters which is something that does make sense as the short stories writer Stephan King really can't write characters that are two dimensional and as this film is based off of one of his own short stories it makes sense that his characters be just as bland and uninteresting in the film adaptation.

Not only is this film based off of the short story of the exact same name with the short story originally being published in 1980 as a booklet that was included in Gallery magazine it was then revised and published again five years later in the Stephan King shorts collection called Skeleton Crew. With according the short stories Wikipedia page the short story is very vastly different then the version that we got in this film as for starters there's no Bill or Randy in the story it's just Hal and Petey with Hal instead being an only child who still does discover the monkey but after some killings and accidents happed one of which involves Hals best friend Jimmy Hal hides the money in a dry wall only for it still to reappear years later with Hal and Petey having to drive to Crystal Lake to leaving to drown in the lake itself none of which is present in this film which is understandable as that original ending does sound rather lame and not cinematic but given that the short story did receive a revision in 1985 by Stephan King himself it is possible that all of the things tat are in the film were then added into the short story or it's possible that what's listen on the short stories Wikipedia page does one from the revised version of the story and not the original form of the story but lets hope that Stephan King did make the story better as it doesn't sound like it's going to be all that scary of a read even in it's original short story format.

In what could be seen as being a wise move this films director Osgood Perkins did choose to add in humor to the story. Which is something that does make alot of sense as this is after all a story about a killer toy monkey so by all rights this should have alot of jokes in it and while it was done to make it stand out from all f the super dark serious Stephan King adaptations out there it is something that given it's premise does make alot of sense as there's no way that you can treat a story like this seriously given that it's killer is a toy monkey with him even saying in an interview with Empire "I took liberties like a motherf*****. They [Atomic Monster] had a very serious script. Very serious. I felt it was too serious, and I told them: 'This doesn't work for me. The thing with this toy monkey is that the people around it all die in insane ways. So, I thought: Well, I'm an expert on that.' Both my parents died in insane, headline-making ways. I spent a lot of my life recovering from tragedy, feeling quite bad. It all seemed inherently unfair. You personalize the grief: 'Why is this happening to me?' But I'm older now and you realize this sh** happens to everyone. Everyone dies. Sometimes in their sleep, sometimes in truly insane ways, like I experienced. But everyone dies. And I thought maybe the best way to approach that insane notion is with a smile." which is something that does work for this film and while yes this film does have alot of humor in it none of it undercuts the tension of the scene rather it instead adds tension to the scene as we the audience know that something bad is going to happen and seeing the characters cope with that by telling joke is something that works really well in this film.

If last year was the year of really great horror films where almost every one that came out minus one or two was a great film. This year seems to be the complete opposite as so fay this year all of the horror films that have been released have firstly been films that see classic kids characters get turned into slasher villains but have also been really bad with this one actually being quite good and all of that comes down to the fact that they have a creative team that not only knows how to make a good movie but are also willing to take a chance and tell an original story with an original villain and not use a character that was created around one hundred years ago and while yes there is some merit to be found in those cheaply made films here it's also something that really does prove that if you want to see a good horror film then you don't look towards Sony or 20th Century Fox for example you look towards the more smaller studios as they are the ones that are taking chances on smaller scale films like this one which wouldn't be made by a major studio due to how out there it's main concept is but because of the fact that this film was made by a smaller studio it means that the makers of this film can go as out there with the film as they want to and still turn in a film that's as true to the director original vision as is humanly possible something that just wouldn't be possible as a major studio as they would have cut things out of this film and interfered with the making of this film in order to make it as marketable as is humanly possible.

Without giving to much away there are certain aspects of this film in regards to it's plot that could be seen as being predictable. This is something that does hurt the the characters arcs of both Hal and Bill as you know right away where this films is going with there characters arcs and not only does it go there it goes there the exact same way that you thought it would which despite it being a very well done arc in it's right does make it boring to watch as what's the point in watching something when you've not only worked out where it's going but the film also goes to that exact same place surely the wisest thing to do would be to turn it on it's head and make you think that it's going one way only for it instead to take a left turn and go another way that you never even thought of in the first place as that then also gives us the audience a reason to rewatch the film to see if we can spot any clues that might have been hidden in the film and yet by going to that exact conclusion it robs the film of any kind of replay ability factor as now we have no reason to rewatch or reply this movie as all of the films characters arcs are fairly easy to work out and this is something that could have been fixed with just a few rewrites of the script something that they did do as this final cut of the film wasn't the first time that they tried to get made and they even had a script in place when they brought on Osgood Perkins so the makers of this film aren't adverse to rewriting the films script which does make you wonder why they didn't do it here as they really could have fixed alot of the films issues if they did take the time to do a rewrite of this films script.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty one minuets. Which is a fairly solid running time for this film to have as this film really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho this film really doesn't use it's running time all that well as the film devotes a vast amount of it's running time just to setting up the plot when really the film should have sent no longer then ten minuets in setting up the rest of the film as this film doesn't have alot of running time to begin with and to rob it of even more time to tell it's story just by having a pointless prolog sequence that sets up the plot of the film means that now the film have to work twice as hard to get across all of the information that it needs to get across and still tell a good story in even less time then what it would have had if this film had cut down it's promo sequence by quite a bit and with the added running time the film would then be able to fully develop it's characters something that it desperately needed to do as the film doesn't rest on the plot being good as the films plot is as good as it's going to get rather it rests on the strength of the films characters which can't be that fully developed due to the fact that this film really is spending so much time of a prolog sequence that would have been more effective not only if it was spread out all throughout the film as this would make it more easier to digest but was also cut down to allow the other aspects of the film the time that they really do need to shine but I really will admit that this film really does have 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 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 one of the films more better aspects. As this is where this film got to be alot more fun to watch as this films kills are so over the top and so goofy that you can't help but laugh at them and fall in love with them all at the same time and it's during this films kills that the makers of this film really did take advantage of the fact that this films killer is a toy monkey and because of that they can go as over the top and as goofy with the kills as they want to as by proxy having a killer toy monkey is a funny idea and it would be really foolish of the makers of this film to not take advantage of that when it came to this films kills with it also being really hard to say just what exactly the best kill of this film even was as by rights they could all make a claim for that title as all of this films kills are just that good with the film alone being worth watching just to see just how over the top and how goofy looking alot of this films kills really are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall out of all the horror films that have been released this year thus far this film is easily the best of the bunch but given just how bad alot of those other horror films where that's not exactly a high bar to reach but credit where it's due this film knows what kind of film it is and isn't afraid to be nothing then that with this film also having some really good acting in it something that alot of those other horror just didn't have in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as 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 7.5 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 of 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.

Popeye's Revenge Film Review

Why is it now a thing for beloved kids characters that have only just entered the public domain to get turned into slasher villains. As now we have yet another slasher film that has a beloved kids cartoon character as it's main villain and just like with both The Mouse Trap and Mouse Of Horrors this one is also the first of at least three maybe even more movies at least two more of which are due out this year and both of which have Popeye as the main villain and so the join me as I review the film that really should have eaten more spinach with the film in question being called simply just "Popeye's Revenge" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a group of friends arrive to renovate a friends house they find themselves being stalked by mysterious person dressed in a sailors uniform. 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 rather bland as it just comes comes across as being every single eighties slasher summer film plot rolled into run with a dose of the The Evil Dead's setting thrown into it with nothing new or interesting added to it which is something that does make sense as lets be honest here the main focus and selling point of these films is never going to be the plot it's going to be seeing a beloved kids cartoon character be the villain of the film but even then you still need to have a decent enough plot to keep viewers interested in your film and when you don't have all you have is a bland selling point that thanks to other similar films like this one is becoming more and more generic by the film and as such these types of films really do need to up there game when it comes to there plots say what you will about the Blood And Honey films but at least they gave some fresh new plots where as this films plot is nothing more then generic with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Emily Mogilner as Tara , Connor Powles as Dylan , Danielle Ronald as Donna and Bruno Cryan as Nick. Also starring in this film is Atlanta Moreno as Sky , Karolina Ugrenyuk as Kathy , Fyn Phoenixx as Max , Kyle Jordan as Alan , Eva Ray as Cherry , Danielle Scott as Mia , Amanda Jane York as Lora , Oliver Mason as George , Kathi DeCouto as Jane , Paul Frost as A Fisherman , Kelly Rian Sanson as Olive Oyl and Steven Murphy as Popeye.

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 about as bad as you'd expect from one of these films. As this films acting whilst it is alot more better then the acting in Mickey's Mouse Hunt is still pretty bad as while it is clear as day that alot of this films actors are indeed trying to turn in a good performance alot of this films actors just feel lost with that mainly being due to the fact that this films director William Stead quite clearly has no idea just how to get a good performance out of his actors with that being something that does hold the acting acting back with his of talking to his actors to give them a good performance mainly coming from the fact that he's only directed two feature films with the rest of his filmography being made up of short films that he's directed and working in other film departments with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Not only is this film basically copying the plot of quite literally alot of the summer camp slasher movies from the nineteen eighties. It's also just straight up copying the opening of Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey by having the origin of the killer be told in poorly done animation with a narrator that sounds bored this right here is one the major issues with this film because there is nothing original about this film for the most part heck even the fact that the killer is believe to have been burnt alive could also be seen as copying the original of Freddy Krueger even down to both characters having actually committed the crimes that got them murdered the only difference being that Popeye or Johnny as his real name is meant to be was just a kid who didn't know his own strength and that's really it and that's not enough as you have who is perhaps the worlds most famous sailor and you give him an origin that was done better in 1984 and is was told alot better in 2023 and all of this just screams of the makers of this film just cashing in on what's popular and not bothering to give there villain an origin that's unique to him Popeye is meant to be a sailor so have his origin be something that's related to that and tell it in a way that's unique to your film and not something that was ripped off of a film that whilst it was still bad was still alot more better then this film was since as things stand this film is trying to hard to copy a bunch of ideas from other horror films without understanding what it was that made them so popular in the first place.

Whilst Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey did indeed start of the trend of turning popular kids characters into slasher film villains. With that film you could at least tell that the makers of that film were at least trying to make a decent film and while they may not have succeeded in there task you could see there passion for the film on screen where as here it just felt all of the people that where making this film hadn't even seen a Popeye cartoon let alone read one of the comics as there's no passion for this character or for this film for that matter seen in this film an the reason as to why i'm being so hard on these films is because I want them to be better and part of that does include showing some level of passion for the characters and your film as here it just comes across as the makers of this film saw that Popeye had entered the public domain and saw that these types of films where making some small amounts of money and saw a way to ern some quick money easily and that's really it as everything about this film just scream generic and while they do credit for at least trying to explain why Popeye has some large biceps and having a spinach reference near the end of the movie those feel like that they were included to appease the people who love the Popeye character when all you have to do is make an actually good and scary film with a unique premise and the fans of that character would still be somewhat pleased but because they went the easy route and didn't bother to put in the actual work all we ended up with is a film that is just generic and will be forgotten about by both the people who love the Popeye character and by the people who love horror films within the end of the week.

If the makers of this film really wanted to do something new and different but still keep Popeye as the main villain. Then what they really should have done is have Bluto be in the movie and not only that but also have him be one of the hero characters in the movie as we are so used to seeing him be the bad guy it would make it more fun to see the roles reversed and that would at least then give the movie a reason for existing but they don't do that instead they have it so that whenever there's fog around Popeye is nearby which is great for atmosphere but it makes the movie less fun to watch and if there's anything that this movie shouldn't be is boring as you have a character who is a larger then live sailor being your main villain and yet the film plays in all completely straight which again is something that these films tend to do when leaning into the ridiculousness of it all would not only make your film alot more better then what it actually is but it would also make this film alot more fun to watch as well and this is something that hopefully the makers of Shiver Me Timbers do as Popeye is a character where you can get away with having over the top and funny moments in your movie and in your kills as Popeye is by nature an over the top and funny character and by playing it straight all your doing is making your film alot less fun to watch with thus being something that the makers of The Mean One knew to do as yes that film was a Grinch based horror film but it also knew to play moments for laughs as well as The Grinch is also a comedy character.

If you thought that Popeye was the only character from the Popeye comics strips and shorts to appear in this movie then you'd be wrong. As even tho in the movie he only goes by Olive the girl that's actually helping him is credited in the movies end credits as being none other then Olive Oyl with this films version of her not being Popeye's lover interested but instead being his equally twisted sister which is something that they really never hint at being the case at all during the movies animated prolog with it only being mentioned by Olive herself during the films third act which at that point in time it's two little to late with that plot twist not even playing a part in the movies plot and Olive herself just comes across as being a less interesting version of The Little Pale Girl from the Terrifier movies only not funny and less interesting but to this films credit they also don't go the obvious route with the character either by making her a really annoying love interest for Popeye which is something that they very easily could have done but at the same time tho if your going to have this big twist of her being Popeye's sister then at least hint at it a few times throughout the movie and heck you could even say that Popeye was his parents second child and yet all they do is have one line near the start of the movie where even then that line of dialog could literally mean that he's talking to anyone as it's not something that means that he not only has a sister but is also currently talking to her either.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and nineteen minuets and forty four seconds. Which is a solid running time for this film to have as this film really does have the right mount of plot there to cover it's running time but at the same time tho while the film does indeed devote alot of it's running time to Popeye and his backstory we get nothing for the rest of the characters with the characters that we want to see survive this movie being nothing more then the stereotypical characters that we see in all eighties summer camp slasher movies and having just as much dimension to them as well which is something that does make sense as the main selling point of this film is seeing Popeye being turned into a slasher villain but at the same time you still need to have interesting and likable characters that you actually want to see survive until the very end of this movie and yet because of the fact that the makers of this put alot more effort into making Popeye at least somewhat interesting the rest of this films characters just come as being bland , boring and forgettable characters that have been done better in other and better slasher movies and even Popeye himself isn't really given all that much dimension to him as while he does have a motive for wanting to get revenge on the PARENTS that killed him he ha no reason to go after the kids as they did nothing to him at least with Freddy Krueger we found out in hi debut movie why he's attacking the kids and not the adults but I really will admit that this film really does 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 film was in all honesty the best part of the film. As that's where the film gets to be somewhat entertaining with the film even making use of Popeye being a sailor by having him not only use an anchor alot of the time but also carry it around with him as well and it's during this films kills that we get to see just how good the gore effects where in this film with it being clear as day that alot of the films budget went into creating some really good gore effects which was money well spent as they do make the films kills alot better with the best kill in the whole entire movie bar none being when Popeye straight up rips out a persons spline and then rips there head off which was just such an over the top the kill that it makes you wonder why the rest of this films kills weren't as over the top and creative as alot of them where just Popeye strangling people until there eyes popped out of there head and that's really it and while that does lead to some really creative looking visuals and is indeed a really creative idea for a kill in it's own right you still need to have more a verity of fun kills in it as well and while this film does indeed have it's fair share of fun kills those are in the minority and are not the majority with the rest of this films kills despite them being really fun kills in there own right just aren't as fun as they really could have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is a trend that really does need to die down as it's getting old fast and this movie and Mouse Of Horrors is evidence of that as while this movie is at the very least a little bit better then Mouse Of Horrors it's still a really bad move in it's own right and it's one that will be forgotten about by alot of people who love both horror films and Popeye as well as it's just that bad of a film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the i've talked about all of he good and as well as all of the bad things that are in his 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 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in his 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.

Scream VI Film Review

The Scream films for better or for worse are films that are going to be getting alot more attention over the next year or so and have been getting more and more popular since the mid to late 2010's with the release of Scream: The TV Series. However alot of the Scream films or at least the vast majority of them have all taken place in one small town with only two films moving the location to somewhere else and so then join me as I review the film that gives Ghostface his biggest canvas and location change yet with the film in question being called simply just "Scream VI" enjoy.

The plot of this film is one year after the events of the previous film Sam , Tara , Chad and Mindy and all of their new friends find themselves trying to survive a new set of Ghostface attacks only this time Ghostface is more dangerous then he or she has ever been before now. 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 really good as while the plot of this film could be seen as being very formulaic as it is just the stereotypical Scream plot with not alot added to it what new elements that the returning film making team add to this films plot like the subplot with the sub plot with Sam seeking counseling due to the events of the first film and the fact that the Carpenter sisters also have a subplot is more then enough to make this films plot come across as feeling fresh and new all other again and that is something that really is needed to keep the Scream films moving forward as it is very easy to write a Scream plot as all you have to do is have someone attacking a bunch of kids and have one of the kids try to work out who it is wince and repeat and that's it and as a result of that is the fact that this is franchise that demands that new stuff be added to the plot of each film with this films plot being being one of the best ones yet with the plot of this film 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 film is Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter , Jenna Ortega as Tara Carpenter and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks-Martin. Also starring in this film is Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks-Martin , Jack Champion as Ethan Landry , Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers , Hayden Panettiere as Kirby Reed , Skeet Ulrich as Billy Loomis , Henry Czerny as Christopher Stone , Liana Liberato as Quinn Bailey , Dermot Mulroney as Wayne Bailey , Devyn Nekoda as Anika Kayoko , Tony Revolori as Jason Carvey , Josh Segarra as Danny Brackett , Samara Weaving as Laura Crane and Roger L. Jackson as The Voice Of Ghostface.

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 i this very film was in all honesty really good. Which is something that's to be expected as alot of this films are not only a bunch of really good actors in there own right but are also reprising there roles from previous films and so they would of course know how best to play there respective character with a special shout out going to Hayden Panettiere who despite only playing Kirby once almost ten years prior to making this film really does step back into her character perfectly almost as if she had just finished filming on Scream 4 the day before starting filming on this movie with the best performer in this whole entire film being either Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter or Roger L. Jackson as The Voice Of Ghostface as both actors are just so good in this film with Melissa maturing her character and her performance in a way that feels natural and in character given everything that her character went through in the last film and Roger just being oddly really creepy in this movie which is something that does oddly enough work for the voice of Ghostface with the acting that's in this film also being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all that this films actors really have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really 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.

If there was one thing that the fans wanted from Scream 2022 it was the return of Kirby and that was one thing that we got in this film. With her inclusion in this film really proving that this films directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett along with screenwriters  James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick really are not only fans of the franchise as a whole but are also willing to listen to what the fans want and actually give it to them both of which are things that they really don't have to do and yet it's because that they did that that we got a continuation of Kirby that made sense as after experiencing one of the Ghostface killings fast hand she would of course want to go into a profession where she could hopefully someday prevent another series of attacks either from Ghostface or from someone else and thus prevent someone else from experiencing the kind of pain that she herself went through and it helps that she really is still deep down the same horror obsessed nerd that she was in Scream 4 with her interaction with Mindy being one of the funniest interactions in the whole movie as they each try to suss the other one out just based of what kind of horror movies that they like which is not only a really funny scene in it's own right but it's also one that feels true to both of there respective characters as well and while she does have a funny exchange with Gale as well it's not going to top the one that she has with Mindy plus the one with Gale really doesn't make sense anyways as Gale actually helped her out during the events of Scream 4.

As alot of are all no doubt aware this film is the first Scream film not to feature Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott. As while Neve was offered a role in the film the money she offered wasn't good enough for her to sign on which is something that I do give Neve alot of credit as she stood up for herself and knew what she was worth given that she is franchises main heroine and while she is indeed coming back for Scream 7 it is interesting to wonder where her character would have fitted into this film as there's not really alot of room for her character in this film not at least in it's final form anyways as maybe they could have replaced Kirby with her and that's how she gets brought back into the fold as having just conveniently taking a holiday in New York at the same time that these attacks are happening does seem to be a little to convenient and as such the writers of this film would have to find a clever way to bring her character back into the story in a way that feels natural to her character and not something that doesn't work for either her character or the film as whole but given just how tightly lacked with characters that this film already is maybe it's better that she wasn't in this movie and the fact that she's not and that the movie was still really good in it's own right and was still a box office hit as well does prove that not every single Scream film needs to have the Sidney Prescott character in it in order for it to be a good film.

One of the things that really didn't work in this film was the fact that they reveled a fake Ghostface early on in the movie. Which they do give a narrative reason for that which does make alot of sense at the same time tho there's not reason to have two groups of Ghostface's running around New York when you could have had the main trio of Ghostface killers be the one that kills of Samara Weaving's character as that character was meant to be a teacher at the school that Tara is also going to as well it would be something that would make her a prime target as heck they even attacked Sam's therapist just because he knew her and that was really it and while having the fake Ghostface killer remove his mask at the start of the film is a good way to tell us the audience that this film is going to be doing things alot more differently then what we know that one act of having him remove his mask just to get killed off a few scenes later makes that whole point null and void anyway as not only does the film stick to the Scream formular apart from two scenes in the movie Ghostface himself doesn't really act any different then what he usually does and yet if they did remove the fake Ghostface then it would have shown that these killers really do know everything about the Carpenter sister and that they can attack anyone in their lives who knows them thus making Ghostface alot more of dangerous and unpredictable in this film.

The one thing that ALL Scream movies should do is oddly enough one of the things that this movies doesn't do and that's give us clues as to whom the killer or killers might be. As maybe outside of one line of dialog from Wayne Bailey there's nothing in this movie that makes him out to be a suspect which does make sense as he's meant to be the brains of the bunch which if that's the case then his kids Quinn and Ethan are meant to be the muscle of the group as there the ones committing alot of the kills and yet there's no clues given all throughout the film that implements any of them to be the Ghostface killer of this film heck all you'd need from Ethan is one line of dialog just saying that's he's a fan of either horror , true crime fiction or of Sam herself and that right there would make him a suspect and it's the same for Quinn just one line of dialog is all it would take and it would make all of there actions in the film now seem suspicious and yet because of the fact that the film doesn't do any of that when all three are revealed to be the ones committing the crimes in this film it really does come out of left feel as while there motive does make sense as they reveal that Richie one of the killers from the previous movie was there brother and so they of course wanted revenge of Sam for killing him you still need to give us clues so that us the audience can work it out for ourselves and not have to have it to be spelled out for us at the very end of the film but to be fair tho having Quinn fake her own death so that nobody would suspect her is a pretty good idea tho so there's that at least.

Now then this movie has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly two hours and two minuets and thirty one seconds. Which if memory serves does make this film one of if not the longest film in the Scream series but that might not be true tho but it does help that this film really does have the absolutely right amount of plot there to really cover that large amount of running time and while the film doesn't really use it's running time that wisely as it doesn't give us clues as to who the main killers are in this film it does take the time to fully develop it's characters both old and new and it also does take the time to tell us what characters like Kirby who haven't been seen for well over a decade at this point in time have been up to since we last saw them and again to the films credit it does advance the characters that came back from the previous film in a way that feels true to there characters with even the hint of Sam possibly becoming a Ghostface killer in a possible future Scream being something that was set up in the previous movie and while the new characters are fully developed characters in there own right there's really nothing about them that makes them standout from the rest of the core four and as such they do just fall into the background when they are the characters that the makers of this film should be making sure that us the audience really do know about and remember but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now the 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 film was in all honesty really good. With this film having some of the most memorable kills in Scream history as all of this films kills are not only really well built up as you could even argue that the build to the kill is more scarier then the actual kill itself alot of the time but alot of this films kill are either really inventive or have settings that we really haven't seen in a slasher film before as while yes we did get a scene in Jason Take Manhattan with Jason Voorhees on a subway train but he never killed anyone on it and yet here one of this films Ghostface killers does stab Mindy and even the films infamous ladder kill is something that we really haven't seen done before now and it's something that does work really well for this film as the scene itself is not only really tense in the first place but this kill along with the whole bodega scene really does go to show you that this film Ghostface killers are alot more brutal and a lot more violent then what the previous killers where Richie included with the best kill in this whole movie isn't a kill as it's the scene with Mindy and Ethan on the subway as the editing and the pacing for that whole scene makes it not only a really memorable sequence in it's own right but also a really creepy and scary one as well which really does just go to show you that you don't need a kill in a slasher movie to be scary you just need it to actually be scary and that's really it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this film might be the last Scream film for the current film making team as Scream 7 is due to be directed by franchise creator Kevin Williamson this is one heck of a film to go out on and no matter happens in the next entry this is a film that will always be remembered for just how good that it is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then  i've talked about all of the good and as well 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 an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images hat 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 the official Scream fandom wiki page . Tenor and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being the official Scream fandom wiki page simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on the official Scream fandom wiki page and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on the official Scream fandom wiki page 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.