Screamboat Film Review

Much like Popeye it's shockingly been really popular to adapt Mickey Mouse into a slasher villain which in this case does make alot of sense as he is the more popular character of the two. With the film that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today actually being one of the better ones out there simply due to the fact that this film actually has alot of effort put into it and so then join me as I review the film that quite literally brings Mickey Mouse into the world of live action with the film in question being called simply just "Screamboat" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a group of passengers aboard a ferry start to get killed off one by one it's up to a few of them to work who or better yet what is killing them and for what reason. 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 as it was a really fun filled plot as it not only mimics the plot of Steamboat Willie but it also takes it in a fresh a new direction something that alot of these Mickey Mouse based horror films haven't done as they all just rely on the fact that Mickey Mouse is the main villain and that's really it where as here the makers of this film actually but in effort into crafting a plot that whilst it won't ever win any kind of awards is still a plot that knows that's not that good and there for just allows itself to be a fun and dumb plot but one that's also dumb in all of the right ways as well with this films plot being as fully developed as it was ever likely to be but at the same time tho it would have been nice if the plot of this film was a bit more developed then what it ended up being as that would have helped out this film in the long run as it would have made this films plot alot more better then what it is as right now while yes this films plot is alot more better then what it really had any right to be it's also not as good as it really could have been either 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 Allison Pittel as Selena , Jesse Posey as Pete and Amy Schumacher as EMT Amber. Also starring in this film is Jesse Kove as Lieutenant Diaz , Kailey Hyman as Cindi , Rumi C. Jean-Louis as Matteo , Jarod Lindsey as Moses , Sarah Kopkin as Ilsa Arindel , Savannah Whitten as Ariana , Stephanie Bates as Bella , Poonam Basu as Jazzy , Allyson Sereboff as Aubrey , Jarlath Conroy as Barry , Jared Johnston as Neil and David Howard Thornton as Steamboat Willie.

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 al honesty not that bad. With all of this films actors really trying their best to make this films script work for them and given that alot of this films actors aren't that well known it would also be a really foolish to expect good or even great acting from them in this film film and yet that's exactly what we get as all of this films actors turn in some really good performances in this very film and because of that they really do own there characters and make the best use of all of their screen time in this film with the best actor in this film quite easily being David Howard Thornton as Steamboat Willie as he is so quite clearly having the time of his life playing this character and it is something that really does shine through in his performance as well as with the character being mostly silent throughout the whole film David Howard Thornton has to get across just what the character is thinking and feeling with just his body language and that is something that he does with ease so much so that alot of the best scenes in the movie involve his character as his performance as the character is just that good with the acting that's in this very 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 harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

This film has the one thing that both The Mouse Trap and Mouse of Horrors didn't have and that's actual thought and effort put into it. As you can tell right from the first shot of the movie that the makers of this film knew what they were doing and actually took the time needed to make this film the best that it could possibly be as the other two films where in production within days of the rights to Steamboat Willie being free where as with this film while yes it was announced the very next after Steamboat Willie went into public domain it took a while for them to get the film made as they were just trying to perfect the film and make it as could as it could have been and that is something that really does shine through in the final cut of the film as everything feels like that's in there for a reason and the fact that alot of the film actually had extra's and high production value only serves to make this film look alot more better then the other two films where as they look and feel cheap and while all three of these films are very cheaply made here with this film you really can't tell with it looking like a decently budgeted horror film instead of being a small budgeted horror film and while that production value doesn't extend to how they portray Mickey Mouse in certain scenes as it looks like that they quite literally use a toy version of the character as it looks that bad the overall production value for this film was really high with it being quite clear as day that the makers of this film prioritized making a good film first and the fact that Mickey Mouse is the main villain is secondary as they know that without the first part it won't matter who the main villain is because your audience will already be checked out.

If you thought that Mickey Mouse would be the only Disney character to get featured in this film you were wrong. As a shockingly high amount of the Disney Princess's all appear in this movie with Cindi , Ariana , Jazzy , Bella , Ilsa  and Rory all being named after classic Disney Princess's but there not only ones tho as even characters from Sofia The First get featured in this film with the character of Amber being a main character in tis film and even Selena dresses up as the version of Minnie Mouse from Steamboat Willie with even the character of Pete being named after the character of the same name which does go to show you that the makers of this film knew full well what type of film that they were making and instead just hiding away from the fact that there making something that's based off of a Disney character they fully embraced so much so that even one of the films trailers not only had the classic Disney font but also that old school Disney vibe to it as well with this being the right approach t take when your making a film like this as while yes making something serious like Blood And Honey works just as well it works even better if you have a good understanding that what your making isn't going to be that good and that sometimes embracing the silliness that does come with these characters works even better then playing it straight does and because of that this film is allowed to be alot more fun and have alot more goofy moments in it and the film does work really well because of the fact that it's fully embracing the silliness that does come with the fact that these characters were originally cartoon characters and heck the film even has Minnie Mouse appear right at the very end of the movie as that's just how corny and goofy that this film really is.

While this film does have quite alot of things going for it sadly it does have some things that do work against it. Like the fact that the films characters aren't developed with all of them just feeling like cardboard cutouts of much more better characters this is especially true for the characters that are meant to be the Disney Princess's as outside of having either the same name or a slightly altered name none of them have that much of personality outside of copying what there Disney character did which is a shame as those were some of the more entertaining parts of the movie with those characters even getting some of the best jokes in the film but because the fact that there not that well developed as characters it means that us the audience do feel nothing when they do die and are left just waiting for them to die as well and it's sadly like that with alot of the films other characters as well as due to there being quite alot of main characters and such a short amount of running time the film can't really give them all the screen time that they need to be fully developed characters so much so that the only thing that is memorable about alot of them is the fact that there spoofing Disney characters and that's really it and while this film is a comedy the comedy can at times be annoying as the Princess stand ins have this annoying accent to them that is really hard to describe but while it is something that works for there characters and makes the comedy from them funny it also makes them really annoying to have to listen to as well and even the film's main character of Selena isn't that well developed of a character as the only thing that we get to find out about her character is that she wants to leave New York City and that's it.

With this film being a horror comedy the film does actually have alot of really funny jokes in it with almost all of this films jokes working and landing really hard. Like the fact that when Cindi thinks that she's gotten away from Steamboat Willie she hides behind exactly where he can kill her and the film just cuts to him pointing this put before going on to kill her which was just such a darkly funny joke and it's one that really did work in this film as does the fact that at the start of the movie Selena reveals that she's trying to get away from Princess type characters which might not be funny on it's own but preceding that big reveal the film shoots , edits and scores her big introductory scene like she's being chased by the killer thus making that big reveal a pretty funny joke but that's not the best joke in the film as that honor goes to something that Steamboat Willie does as after he's killed the captain of the boat he just straight up recreates the famous whistling scene from Steamboat Willie complete with the whistle which just such a funny joke with that joke being the one the sold me on this movie as it was made clear by that point that this film is firmly tongue in cheek and that the makers of this film knew what kind of film that they were making and so they just decided to go all in and make this film the must fun film that could have done and while the Disney Princess jokes at the start were pretty fun as heck Ariana straight up says that she wants to be where the people are and a another character says to Belle to be our guest they did get quite annoying as it was getting to the point where all they did was start to remind you that you could be watching a much more better movie thus taking you out of this one but when this film tells a really joke it is a really good and painfully funny joke.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty two minuets and thirteen seconds. Which is a bit on the long side for one these horror films to last with this film having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho this film really doesn't use its running time all that wisely either as neither the plot nor it's characters are that well developed which is pretty much par the course for one of these horror films as none of them have that well developed plots or characters but it is something that is still an issue as the film could have been alot more better and still be this dumb film with this dumb plot if the plot was a bit more developed as there are large portions of the film very early on where nothing is happening to advance the plot of the film and it's in those scenes where things could have been added that do develop the the films plot a bit more with the same thing also being true for the films characters as well as on paper they could have been some really good characters but because of the fact that alot of the film is spent with this bad mystery of who is doing these kills when it really doesn't need to do that thanks to the films poster and because of that it does meant that the films characters can't be that well developed and so we are left with a bunch of characters that we can't form a connection with as the film doesn't give us a reason to care for them and instead leaves us cheering for the films villain which even then is mostly just due to how entertaining that actor David Howard Thornton in in the role 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 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 it being this films kills that are actually one of the more entertaining parts of the film as we get to see just how creative Steamboat Willie is even given the fact that he's quite literally the size of a mouse which given the character that he's meant to be was a nice touch as it now means that he does have to get really creative with his kills something that he does put to great use all throughout this film as we do get some really cool and unique kills from this character from his just straight up using some wire to cut the captain's head off to impaling two of the girls there are alot of kills to be found in this film so much so that it's hard to say just what the best kill of this film is as realistically anyone of this films kills could make that claim but for the shear entertainment factor alone it would have to go do to the death of boat's captain as while being strangled with wire so tight that your head gets cut off because isn't that new of a kill it's the fact that they do the famous whistling scene from Steamboat Willie directly after it that does make it the best kill in the movie as it was a very entertaining scene to watch in this movie and was the perfect blend between horror and comedy as there was plenty of more comedic moments spread out all throughout that kill like the fact that due to the captain's large neck Willie does get frustrated and starts to whistle all other again which was a darkly funny thing to see in this film and something that made that kill standout from all of the others in this film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall out of the three Mickey Mouse based horror movies that have been released thus far this is quite easily the best of the bunch as this film still stays true to the spirit of the original Steamboat Willie but still puts it's own horror spin on the story but with that being said it's still not all that good of a film 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 old 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 this very review well then boys and girls and as well as as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the mages that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney 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 the official Scream fandom wiki page actually has images from this film really are up and on the Google Image 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.

Sinners Film Review

This year seems to be the year where all we seem to be getting is badly done horror movie after badly done horror movie. With there being a shockingly few amount of actually good horror movies being released this year well a film has just been released that is actually good film and so then join me as I review the film that had it's entire plot spoiled in it's trailer with the film in question being called simply just " Sinners" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when twin brothers return home after living in a different city for year they decide to open a bar but discover that there's somethin far more sinister lurking in the town that they once called home. 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 as the plot of the film is original to a certain degree as elements of the films plot are borrowed from From Dusk Till Dawn but at the same time tho this film does take alot of time in setting up the plot of the film which is something that does work both r and against the film it works for the film in the way that it allows the characters to be properly set up and established but it works against the film in the way that nothing is actually happening to advance the plot of the film with it feeling like stuff is just happening for no reason whatsoever which can at times make this film be hard to watch but when the plot does get going that's when it gets interesting as this films plot can be seen as being a fun plot and going against the tropes that you would most likely find in movies like this one which is something that does make it a fun watch but when the plot takes a while to get going it makes you wonder why the makers of this film went that route as a plot like this is not only strong enough to support an entire movie it's also one that doesn't require that long to get going in the first place 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 his film is Michael B. Jordan as Elijah "Smoke" Moore and Elias "Stack" Moore and Hailee Steinfeld as Mary. Also starring in this film is Miles Caton as Sammie Moore , Buddy Guy as Old Sammie , Jack O'Connell as Remmick , Wunmi Mosaku as Annie , Jayme Lawson as Pearline , Omar Benson Miller as Cornbread , Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim , Li Jun Li as Grace Chow , Yao as Bo Chow , Lola Kirke as Joan , Peter Dreimanis as Bert , Saul Williams as Jedidiah , Helena Hu as Lisa Chow , David Maldonado as Hogwood , Andrene Ward-Hammond as Ruthie , Nathaniel Arcand as Chayton , Tenaj L. Jackson as Beatrice and Nicoye Banks as Jacob.

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. Which considering who is starring in this film is both not all that surprising and yet at the exact same entirely surprising it's not all that surprising as alot of this films actors are a bunch of a really goof actors in there own and therefor know how to turn in a good performance but at the same time tho it's also an entirely surprising thing as alot more of this films actors is made up of a bunch of unknown to very little known actors and there to expect a goo performance out of them would be seen as being unwise but that just goes to show you just how good even this films unknown actors are as they more then hold there own there acting against someone like Michael B. Jordan who quite easily gets the best performance in this film entire film as he has to play two different characters and yet still make them both feel distinct enough from each other that us the audience aren't going to confuse the two something that he does with huge ease with one of them being more kindhearted and softer spoken and the other being a bit more gruff and hardened all of which is all done through his performance with the acting that's in his 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 Baraboom! Studios , Base FX , Industrial Light & Magic , Outpost VFX , Rising Sun Pictures and Storm Studios. 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 as while the film does mainly use CGI for things that it might b able to create practically like extending the set of certain locations and things like that it still does have some really bad looking effects in it as well like for example the fact that alot of the blood that they use in this film is CGI with very few examples of it being practical and the fact that the film does add in some CGI elements to it's creatures which do look a bit distracting especially given the films more realistic look and tone all of which makes you wonder where alot of this films one hundred million American dollars went to as it's not something that you always see on screen and while having a film with that kind of budget is modest budget when you compare it to any Marvel Cinematic Universe film you still need to see where that money is going as it's quite clearly not going to the effects as they range from OK at best to flat out bad at it's worst with the film even having in some really obvious CGI looking steam as well as there not as could as they could have been and with the film really only having one main location it is something that does make you wonder where alot of this films budget is going if it's not going to the effects.

There are plenty of films that you can say are slow burns and this is film is most certainly one of them and while that's not always a bad thing. Here it takes a whopping forty plus minuets for the main plot of the film to really get going which wouldn't be that bad of a thing if the proceeding forty plus minuets was pent with characters doing something that would be payed off later on in the film but sadly it's not with alot of that time being spent with the brothers just getting the staff that the need to open up there establishment and that's really it and that's not something that needed over forty minuets to do as you very easily could have done all of that in a montage scene and have the rest of the running time before the be spent on developing the main plot of the film and while having a slow burn plot can be a good thing as it allows for the plot to develop at a more natural pace you still need to have something that's actually entertaining happening and when all your doing is just showing new versions of the scene that you've just watched then it makes you wonder why the makers of this film thought that it was a good idea to have the plot of this film be a slow burner as it's quite clearly something that doesn't work for every film this film including as the makers of this film could have used that extra running time to set up things that would be payed off later on in the film instead of just showing us how the brothers got all of the staff that they need for the establishment which is something that we don't need to know as it adds nothing to the plot of the film nor it's characters either.

When this films trailer was first being released it got alot of hate for doing what alot of bad trailers do and that's show off the entire plot of the film. This is something that wouldn't be a bad thing if the film itself had more awsome moments in it and the stuff that we saw in the trailer was just the tip of the ice berg and while I personally never saw the trailer or any trailer for this film I would have to imagine that alot of the good stuff that's in this movie is in that trailer as there's nothing else that's all that good in the main body of the film which is something that really does make you wonder why the people who were editing the trailer together chose to put all of the good stuff in that one trailer as that is something that alot of people are going to notice and because of that they would have no excuse to watch the movie as they could just watch it for free on Youtube and get the exact same experience out of it with this now hopefully letting trailer making companies know that putting the entire plot of the movie into the trailer is never going to end well for the film as sometimes keeping the good stuff for the main movie will actually help the movie out as then the people that do go and see and love the movie can then go and tell there friends to watch this movie for that one moment that wasn't in the trailer and yet here because of the fact that alot of what was in the trailer was also in the movie that's something that can now never happen as sometimes not knowing what is coming next can only make the movie all that much better as it would have been something that genuinely did catch us the audience and yet because of the fact that a huge portion of this films plot was spoiled in the trailer that's not something that will now ever ever happen with this film.

With this film being an action horror film the film does put alot more focus on it's action elements then it does it's horror elements. Which given that this films writer , producer and director Ryan Coogler has mainly done action films. That is something that does make alot of sense as that he really does know how to direct and how to direct well but at the same time for any double genre film there really does need to be fine balance between both genre's and leaning to far either way risks making those that love the genre pretty angry and while it would be hard to see horror lovers be angry at this film it still would have been nice to actually see what a Ryan Coogler director horror film could actually look like as even tho we get some really impressive looking action scenes in this films with the best one being the third act fight between all of the heroes and all of the vampires as always seeing a bunch of humans just take on a bunch of vampires will always be cool no matter what the rest of the film is like that's also sadly really the only action scene in the movie which really isn't enough to justify being called an action film but to this films credit this is where being a slow burner comes back into play as the film did take the time to make you care for it's characters to the point where you want to see them make it out f this bar alive and well and that's something that would have been really hard to do if this film wasn't a slow burn of a film as the film be more focused on getting as much plot out of the way very early on that it wouldn't take the time that a film like this one really does need to make you care for alot of it's characters.

Now then this film has / had an exact gran total running time of exactly two hours and three minuets and forty one seconds. Which for this type of film is quite a long running time to have even more so when you take into account that this film takes around forty minuets to get going but to be fair tho this film really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time it however doesn't really use it's running time all that wisely tho as the plot of the film isn't properly set up nor is it developed all that well either with it feeling like the characters are just doing random things for alot of the films running time it's only once we are deep into the films second act that the film really does start to get going and by that point in time it's far to little to late with the film not even taking the time to fully develop alot of it's characters either as we don't get to find about all that much about who these characters are as people with alot of them just feeling like two dimensional characters and while the films characters aren't that badly written or acted for that matter they leave a little to be desired and could have been handled alot more better in other films and given that this film does have a long running time you'd think that the makers of this film would take the time needed to develop both it's characters and plot but nope they oddly don't do that which is either the bravest move that the makers of this film could have made or the dumbest move that they could have made as it could be argued that getting to know that much about the films characters is apart of the point of the film as well but i really will admit that this film really does have some really good paving 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 un 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 were pretty lame. Which given that this films main killers are all vampires is to be expected as there's only one way for them to kill people but at the same time tho given the fat that the makers of this film are quite clearly putting more effort into the action aspect f the film it would have been nice if they put in just as much effort into the horror aspect of the film as while having some nice looking gore is nice it means nothing if the kill itself isn't creative enough or inventive enough to actually scare and while the mainstream will and currently are eating this film up with both a high score on Rotten Tomatoes and around a seven million American dollar intake on just the previews alone it does say that they care alot more about the action aspect of the film then they are the horror aspect when if you put in as much effort into the horror aspect that you did into the action aspect as well then you'd end up with a hit film that would be loved by both horror lovers and lovers of action films as well with the films best set of kills also coming during the films act as we get to see a bunch of vampires just go to town on some humans which granted does get a little respective to see but given that this film really doesn't have alot of death scenes in this movie it only makes sense that the death scenes that are in this movie would also be in the exact same scene where the vampires are fighting the humans in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall in what could be the saddest thing to say but so far this film really is the best horror film to have come out so far this year which granted isn't saying all that much given that alot of the other horror films that have come out this year really are just bad to OK at best with this film actually proving that horror films still can be good if you have a good filmmaker making it 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 a such that really does mean that this very film really does ern 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 hat I personally used in this very review well then boys an girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I pe4rsomally 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 the official Scream fandom wiki page actually has images from this film really are up and on the Google Image 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 4 Film Review

Out of all of the iconic horror franchises out there Scream is perhaps the one that alot of people still talk about to this very day. While granted that is more due to the fact that Scream's 5 and 6 where genuinely really good movies but it's also due to the fact that the development of Scream 7 was just a nightmare however alot of people seem to forget that we did get a legacy sequel in 2011 and so then join me as i review the film that brought the Scream franchise back to life with the film in question being called simply just "Scream 4" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when Sidney Prescott returns to Woodsboro to promote her new book she becomes trapped in a slew of new Ghostface killings and along with Gale Weathers and Dewey Riley have to find out who this new killer is before it's far to late. 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 with this films plot doing a good job of catching up with the legacy characters in a way that feels natural and true to who they are as characters and yet introducing us to a whole new slew of characters as well and while this films plot could be seen as being tired as it just follows the exact same formular and general synopsis of alot of the Scream films it adds enough new thins to it that it does make it seem fresh and new again and with this films taking on horror remakes it does make sense that this film would have the general same plot as the first film only done on a much bigger budget as that ties into the fact that the killer of this film is doing a remake of the first film but with that being said this film should have a completely different plot as all it does is make this film feel pointless due to the fact that the plot of this film is strikingly similar to the plot of the first film with the plot of this film 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 Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott , David Arquette as Dewey Riley and Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers. Also starring in this film is Hayden Panettiere as Kirby Reed , Emma Roberts as Jill Roberts , Anthony Anderson as Anthony Perkins , Adam Brody as Ross Hoss , Rory Culkin as Charlie Walker , Mary McDonnell as Kate Roberts , Marley Shelton as Judy Hicks , Alison Brie as Rebecca Walters , Marielle Jaffe as Olivia Morris , Nico Tortorella as Trevor Sheldon , Erik Knudsen as Robbie Mercer , Anna Paquin as Rachel , Kristen Bell as Chloe , Shenae Grimes as Trudie , Lucy Hale as Sherrie , Britt Robertson as Marnie Cooper , Aimeé Teegarden as Jenny Randall 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 in this very film was in all honesty really good. Which given not only who is starring in this film but also the fact that this film is being directed by Wes Craven who really does know how to get a good performance out of his actors with it being really hard to say just who the best actor in this film is as there all just so good and while yes the original four actors Neve Campbell , David Arquette , Courteney Cox and Roger L. Jackson are all on top form in this film there acting is more then matched by the acting of the actors that are making there debut in this film as that's just how good the acting that's in this film really is with both the new and old actors turning in some truly great performances that help to make this film alot more better then what it really had any right to be with the best o the new actors being quite easily Emma Roberts who goes from innocent victim to twisted killer at the drop of a hat and she does so effortlessly and with such ease that it's really quite terrifying in it's own right with the acting that's in this 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.

While it would be super easy to talk about all o the four returning characters what would be slightly more challenging is to talk about the films newer characters. As while this film new characters won't ever be as popular as say Tatum from Scream 1 or Sam and Tara from Scream's 5 and 6 this films new characters are some fairly enjoyable characters with even Kirby proving to be so popular that she would return in Scream 6 and yet here she is basically the female version of Randy as she has all of the knowledge about horror films so much so that she technically gets one of Ghostfaces questions right thus making her the first person to do so with Jill coming across as being your stereotypical teenager only for it to be revealed that there's something more darker and more sinister hiding not only within her but also Charlie as well as even tho they both have different motives they both willingly commit these crimes and while yes granted some of this films newer characters like Rebecca and to a lesser extent Judy aren't all that well developed with even Judy being played more for laughs in this film then she would be in the very next film but at the same time tho alot of this films characters just feel like lesser versions of the first films characters which granted might be the point as this film is meant to be spoofing horror remakes but that doesn't mean that you have to copy the characters of the first film as all that does is make you wish that you were watching the first film and where as the first film took the time to fully develop it's characters this film really doesn't do that.

As was mentioned earlier on in this review this film is spoofing remakes from the horror genre which is something that does make alot of sense. As these films always spoofed what was popular in the world of horror from sequels to a concluding chapter and as such since horror remakes where big in the mid to early 2010's it made sense that this film would spoof horror remakes by pretty much being a remake of the first film however what the film fails to mention is the fact that alot of those horror remakes are just flat out bad movies something that they could have done by having one of the characters bring up just how bad alot of horror remakes and then have either Charlie or Jill say that these killings are better then the ones in the first film and that's really it and heck the film really doesn't go all the way with the remake idea as it doesn't have anything that connects it back to the original film be it a familiar location or a cameo from one of the original actors something that alot of horror remakes do also do and while granted it would have been hard to work out how to get an original actor from the first film in this movie they very easily could have had something other then the school make an appearance in this movie like how fun would it have been to have Stu's house make an appearance in this movie even if it's just in the background it's something that still have connected it to the original film in a way that makes alot of sense as these characters would have known about the original killings and given that Charlie and Robbie are meant to be horror buffs with Kirby it would also make sense for them to hold their annual Stab-A-Thon in the house that the original killings took place in.

Given that these film has always built themselves as being a mystery slasher film and al of the films including Scream 3 do put alot of effort into the mystery aspect of the film. With the same thing also being true for this film as well as there's alot of thought and effort put into creating a genuinely good mystery and while Jills motives might seem dated by today's standerd back in 2011 they where oddly topical but with that being said it would have made this film alot more better if this film did give us some clues as t who the killers might be as they would then allow for repeat viewings of the film so that we could look for anything that we might have missed the first time but as the film really doesn't do that then there's no reason to go back and watch this film as your not going to find nothing new that clues in to who the killer was when if you look back at the first film they did one simple trick to try and make us guess just who the killer was and that's the fact that they had alot of the characters wear very similar boots to ones that the killer wore and even having Stu mock one of the rules of a horror movie is big clue that he's one of the killers and yet with this film there's none of that as there more focused on trying to copy what alot of remakes do instead of just doing there own thing and add in things that would make the mystery aspect alot more better then what it already as even having a character have a look just before a kill is about to take place would be more then enough to make us think that they are the killer and while yes having a person walk off screen before a kill happens works just as well it means nothing when there are no clues in the film to back it all up in the first place.

While the whole mystery of this film could have been done alot more better what also worked really for this film was the fact that one of it's killers is Sidney's cousin. This works in two ways as not only Emma Roberts an incredibly skilled actor in her own right but also because of the fact that it's something that we the audience wouldn't see coming at all as of course we'd believe that a close member of her family is a good person and yet when it's revealed that she is one of this films killers it is something that works in all of the right ways as this film has been all about not only copying what the original film did but also trying to outdo it and what better way to do that then to have a female Ghostface with even her motives making sense for someone from that time period as all she wants to do is to get famous for doing nothing much like how she's perceived Sidney got her fame and her fortune without realizing the fact that Sidney had to quite literally got though hell not one . not twice but three times just to get it and even then it wasn't something that she wanted where as Jill is alot like every teenager from around the time that this film takes place in that she must likely watches alot of reality TV shows and thinks that being famous is easy she even has a line of dialog near the end of the film that sums her character perfectly where she says that she doesn't need friends she needs fans and that one line of dialog is something that is perfect for her character is she a good character no but then again you could also argue that alot the characters in thus film aren't well done characters and while the Scream films would finally get a female Ghostface killer done right in Scream 5's Amber Freeman it's important to note that without Jill giving the makers of Scream 2022 the blueprint on how to do a female Ghostface killer then Amber might have turned out to be just another badly done character as well.

Now then his film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and fifty minuets and forty six seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running tome for alot of these Scream movies and to this films credit it really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time but where as Scream , Scream 2022 and Scream VI used their running times alot more wisely but developing there characters and locations alot more this film really doesn't do any of that with the new characters feeling like carbon copies of the original films characters and even tho Woodsboro was set up in the first film here it oddly feels lot smaller and condensed which would be fine if alot of the films new characters were interesting character but sadly there not as out of the new characters only three of them are actually memorable and they are Charlie , Jill and Kirby with the rest of them just being bland characters and while the returning characters do get off betting this is more because of the fact that we've had three other films to get to know as characters and so of course there going to come off as looking better because we've had alot more time to get to know them where as with the new characters for alot of them we only had this one film and while Judy was very vastly improved upon in the next film it still doesn't change the fact that she wasn't that well developed in this film and this is something that the makers of this film really could have done as this film was meant to be the first in a new trilogy of Scream films and yet they didn't bother to use some of this films lengthy running time to develop any of it's new characters 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 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 and well then in all 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 not that bad. Which is something that's not really all that new as this films director and producer Wes Craven has always had some really good kills in alot of his movies and therefor it's not all that shocking that this film would not only have tons of blood and gore in it but that they would also be some really creative and inventive kills as well and while the kills in this film won't top the kills in other Scream movies that doesn't stop them from being the highlight of this movie with perhaps the best kill in this film being a tie between Olivia's kill and the final fight ill between Sidney and Jill as while Olivia's kill was alot more brutal and raw almost like it was a really violent wrestling match Jill's death scene is just as great as she does get her wish to become famous as no one outside of the hospital knows that she actually committed all of these crimes just to get her fifteen minuets of fame and while it's possible that her fame would have faded and turned into infamy the very fact that she did still end up getting exactly what she wanted just without her knowing makes her death in this film one that's really impactful and one that does stay with you long after the film has finished as that's just how good not only her kill but what alot of this films kills really are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall whilst this film is quite easily a return to form after the terrible film that was Scream 3 this is still not the franchise at it's best either. As while it does have all of the iconography there it feels like the makers of this film forgot what it was that made the Scream films work in the first place with it being clear that some fresh blood was needed to keep this franchise alive and well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the 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 revie and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 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 girl 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 the official Scream fandom wiki page 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.

Shiver Me Timbers 2025 Film Review

For some weird reason young horror filmmakers are obsessed with turning Popeye into a slasher villain as this is now the third slasher film to be released this year that has Popeye as the main villain. With this hopefully being the final one this year as out of all three that have been released so far only one of them was actually good and hint it's not this one with this one being the only one that I was actively looking forward to as I hadn't heard of any of the others and so then join me as I review the film that turns Olive Oyl into a goth for literally no reason whatsoever with the film in question being called simply just "Shiver Me Timbers" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when her and her friends go camping to see a comet flying by Olive and her friends suddenly find themselves being stalked by a sailor who is bent on killing them. 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 tat bad but at the same time tho this films plot isn't all that good either as it's just so generic with the plot of the film basically being the same plot as quite literally any eighties slasher film that's set at a summer camp only remove the fact that there not going there for the summer and you'd basically have the plot of this film heck Popeye The Slayer Man had a better plot then this film did as the plot of that film at least had thought and effort put into it and while there is some effort put into the plot of this film it's something that just doesn't work as it's something that we've all seen done better in other and better movies with it once again becoming very clear that the makers of this film only put alot of effort into making sure that you know that a beloved kids character is the main villain when what they should have done is put just as much if not more effort into giving us a plot that not only suits the Popeye character but is also new and different as well with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and not really being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Amy Mackie as Olive Oyl , Murdo Adams as Skits and Stephen Corrall as Lt. Lang. Also starring in this film is Paul Dewdney as Homeless George , Ross Dillon as Trent , Keith Hewitt as Detective Montgomery , Yu Heng Li as Monique , Seb Lord as Spike , this film writer , editor , one of this films producers and this films director Paul Stephen Mann as Detective Zanaletto , Donnamarie McCusker as A Mother , Joel McDade as Stevie , Ty Moore as Caller Wes , Brendan Nelson as Castor Oyl , Niamh Parrington as Cylinda , Leona Roberts as Lizzy , John Ryder as The Narrator and DJ Bruce , one of this films producers Alastair Statham as Detective Holmes , Alexa Wright as The Little Girl , David Hallows as Skinny Popeye and Tony Greer 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 it to be. As the acting in one of thee films is never that good and will never be that good and that is something that does sadly continue with this film as well as all of this films actors are a bunch of unknown actors and so it would have been foolish of anyone watching this movie to expect good pr perhaps even great performances out of them with this films actors giving us performances that while there not that bad there just passable at best which to be fair is alot better then alot of the acting that's usually found in these types of films with it also being made perfectly clear that this films writer , editor , one of this films producers and director Paul Stephen Mann not only doesn't know how to direct to his actors and get the best performance out of them as he possibly could have done or that he put alot more focus on the fact that Popeye is the main killer of the film and so just did one take of every single scene of the movie as that's what this films acting feels like it feels like the kind of acting that you'd get on the first take of any scene 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 overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

To say that this films characters are just the bogstandard slasher characters would be a huge understatement. As there really is nothing to any of this films characters including the muscle bound version of Popeye as all of the kids have the same personalities that were present in alot of summer camp slasher eighties movies with nothing new added to them outside of the fact that the makers of this film chose to make Olive Oyl a goth for literally no reason whatsoever with this being made when you take into account that none of this films characters outside of the obvious Popeye and Olive Oyl have nothing that make them stand out and feel unique to each other so much so that you could literally swap alot of the characters lines around and give them to other characters in this film and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference as that's just how badly written this film and it's characters are and while it does somewhat make sense that the makers of this film wouldn't spend alot of time developing these characters as the main star of the film is obviously going to be Popeye you still have to write them well and make us the audience care for them as if you don't do that then it means nothing when they do get killed off as us the audiences were never given a reason to care or even like these characters for that matter and this is something that alot of these types of films just don't seem to understand as there more focused on making money quick then they are in creating something that people will actually like and that is something that does more damage not only to there films but to this film as well.

Tog vie this film at the vert least some form of credit it does do something that none of the other Popeye horror films have done and that's actually use one of the titles of one of the original Popeye short films as the main title for your movie. Which to be a fair is a pretty good move as it does show that the makers of this film do have some understanding of what kind of film that there making so much so that they actually do in some comedic moments in this film not even to make it a straight forward horror comedy but enough to make sure that us the audience know that they know what kind of film that there making and that there just going to have fun with it sadly tho none of there jokes are actually funny as all alot of them are are just references to other and better horror movies with the movie even ending on a reference to the post credits scene from the 2013 remake of Evil Dead which just felt weird and out of place with there only being one laugh out loud intentionally funny joke as when we first the comet head towards earth it's this massive thing only for it to be revealed that it's the size of a pebble when it lands in a pre-muscular Popeye's pipe with there being another moment later on in the movie that whilst it was funny it's something that clearly wasn't to be funny as for one of the kills in the film Popeye kills an old man except all you see of the kill is the characters shadows just doing the same motion over and over again while the same sound effect plays over it which was just something that was so bad to see that it was funny to watch because of how bad that it was in the first place.

While this film does get alot of credit for also using a lesser known Popeye character in Castor Oyl the film still doesn't take full advantage of the fact that it's a horror film based on Popeye. With there being none of the other Popeye characters outside of Popeye , Olive and Castor that appear in this film as while the film does hint at the start of the movie that the pre-muscular Popeye is going to be Pappy they quickly get rid of that and while the film does have a character who does look like Bluto the film very quickly kills him off with the character not even being called Bluto with the one thing that would have made all of these Popeye horror films all the more better would have been if they did use the other characters from Popeye and even use the Sweet Heaven name as the main location as that then would allow you to put a horror spin on more then just the most well known character of the bunch and it would have been funny to see Wimpy still just eating a cheeseburger even when all of the characters are being killed which in something like Popeye's Revenge wouldn't have worked as they were playing the story straight but here it would have worked due to the films more comedic and light hearted nature and yet they don't do any of that as they instead play it safe just by having the most well known character in this case Popeye be the main villain which is great to clicks on the internet but it also makes the film alot less fun to watch because of it when if you did include more things from the lore of Popeye as they don't even include a scene with him eating a can of Spinach it would also show that the makers of this film not only knew what kind of film that that there making but that they knew that it was going to be bad film and just decided to have with it anyway.

For some strange reason the makers of this film chose to make Olive into a goth character which is just something that doesn't fit not only the original character but also this films version of her. As they don't really give a reason as to why she is the way that she is and why she dresses the way that she dresses outside of the fact that she's the smart one of the family and that's really it and that's not really enough to justify this change and heck all you'd need to do to justify this change is have one dialog where she says that feels like an outsider and that's why she dresses like she's a goth and heck this would even give her some form of connection to this film take on Popeye who goes from being a sweet old man just looking to do a spot of fishing to being mutated into this killing machine but for one reason or another the makes of this film chose not to put in any actual effort when it comes to explaining why the characters are the way that they are outside of Popeye as even tho the previous Popeye film showed that you can have all of the effort put into making sure that people know that this beloved cartoon character is your main villain and still have a good film with decently written character just by giving them just as much time and attention as your main lead gets and yet here the makers of this film only half did that as while characters like Olive and Popeye get some attention and to a lesser extent Castor does as well but none of the others do and what little attention the Oyl siblings get doesn't tell us much about there character and who they are as people with this being made all the more worse when you take into account that Olive is meant to e this films final girl.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirteen minuets and twenty nine seconds. Which even for one of these horror films which usually clock in at around one hour and thirty minuets is such a short amount of time as this film really does have more then plot there to cover not only it's current running time but also a slightly longer one as well as the film spends way two much on time on Popeye before he starts killing people with the first kill not happening until the thirty to thirty five minuet mark which given just how short that this film is the film needed to get to the kills by no longer then the ten minuet mark but for some strange reason the makers of this film chose not to use it's running time all that wisely be developing it's characters and instead just giving us a long and pointless scene with them dancing for literally no reason whatsoever which wouldn't be a bad thing if this film was one hour and thirty minuets as then you could get some character development out of it by having the characters just talking to whoever there dancing with at the time but because of the fact that the film isn't that long it makes that incredibly long and pointless sequence feel all the more pointless as that's screen time that could have been better spent by getting to the films kills alot quicker which is something that this film really did need to do and it's something that this films editor really should have done but given the fact that he was also the director , the writer and one of the producers it means that we are stuck with a pointless dancing that does nothing for the characters as it tells us nothing about who these characters are as people but I really will admit that this film really does have some really bad pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher 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 true highlight of the film. Not only because alot of them are really good and really entertaining but because of the fact that the one with the old man is just so bad that's laughable which really did make the film alot more entertaining to watch in the first place with this film having alot of really impressive kills that do take advantage of the fact that Popeye is meant to be super strong and because of that we get kills where het quite literally punches a person so hard that there head explodes upon impact with alot of this films kills being really over the top and goofy and while the best kill of the movie does oddly enough go to Popeye himself because of the fact that it's a really over the top and goofy kill as during the final fight with Olive she gets out what can only best be described as a souped-up chainsaw and just slashes at him which was fun to see in this film but at the same time tho what does let alot of this films kills down by quite alot is the fact that they do rely far to much on CGI blood which wouldn't be a bad thing if it wasn't all that noticeable but no it's something that you notice from the very first time that they use it and it's something that does make all of these fun and cool kills somehow seem less fun and less cool and more fake to watch in this very film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall out of the three Popeye horror films that are out there this is the most average one as while it's not as good as Popeye The Slayer Man was it's also not as bad as Popeye's Revenge was as there is some effort to make this film good and watchable it just has a few issues that could have been fixed with a longer running time and that's really it 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 thigs that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really that does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 4.5 out 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 , the official Popeye fandom wiki page 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.