Monday, 1 September 2025

The Toxic Avenger 2025 Film SPOILER FILLED Film Review



These days it seems like the only way to truly get the movie that you want made out is to release it unrated. Which  is a huge gamble on any studio to make and yet not only have we had two unrated films come out in the past few years one of them was even a massive hit movie and well the other one has just been released and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the film that really does need to be seen to be believed with the film in question being called simply just "The Toxic Avenger" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when an employee gets dropped into some toxic waste he becomes heavily mutated and sets out to get revenge on those that wronged him included his evil and corrupt boss. 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 being so much more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this films plot should have been really bad but because of the fact that the film has this kind of over the top and campy tone to it that does make it feel alot more like a dark gritty cartoon then the actual cartoon show that the first film spawned it does kind of get away with it as this is a plot that's not to be taken seriously and is meant to be a whole lot of fun and that's exactly what it ends up being with the plot of this film being a throwback to films like Class Of Nuke 'Em High where they don't really take themselves that seriously but yet at the same time you do kind of by into them with this being a case where being released unrated does help the plot of the film as while the films plot wouldn't be that much effected if this film was rated the fact that it's not however does mean that the plot can go to those more weird and wacky places that it might not have been ale to go to if this film did have a rating 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 Peter Dinklage as Winston Gooze / the voice of the The Toxic Avenger and Jacob Tremblay as Wade. Also starring in this film is Taylour Paige as J.J. Doherty , Kevin Bacon as Bob Garbinger , Sarah Niles as Mayor Togar , Julia Davis as Kissy Sturnevan , Julian Kostov as Budd Berserk , David Yow as Guthrie Stockins , this film writer and director Macon Blair as Dennis , Rebecca O'Mara as Shelly Gooze , Jonny Coyne as Thad Barkabus , Jane Levy as the voice of the Cheerful Insurance Representative , Luisa Guerreiro as The Toxic Avenger and Elijah Wood as Fritz Garbinger.

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 shockingly good. With all of this films actors turning in some surprisingly good performances in this film which is something that both is and yet also isn't shocking it isn't shocking in the way that alot of this films actors are a bunch of really good actors in their own right but at the same time tho this is also a film that you really don't expect good acting from in the first place as it's premise is so ludacris that you'd be forgiven for thinking that this film had some really bad acting in it and yet all we got in this film was some really good acting with it being clear as day that all of this films actors understood just what kind of a film that they were in and what kind of tone that the film had and therefor just really hammed up all of their performances and while it would have been very easy to say that Peter Dinklage is the films best actor the fact is he's not as that honor goes to so someone who had exactly no lines of dialog in the film that being Luisa Guerreiro who physically played The Toxic Avenger as all Peter Dinklage did when his character got mutated was voice him with Luisa adding so much character and personality to the character all of which was done without uttering a single word of dialog and given that she had to wear all that make up that is something that would have been a hard task to achieve at the best of times with the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out pf 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 Fangs FX , Fourth Seal Studios , Millennium FX , Mr. X. , Tippett Studio and Worldwide FX. 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 really good with this being quite shocking as you don't usually think that films that have a small budget like this one has would have good looking CGI to it and yet that's exactly what this film does have as while yes granted this film does mostly use practical effects they also mix to with CGI which is something that does make it harder to tell what was real and what was done in a computer and while the film does have some really obvious back replacements alot of the time it could also be argued that that does add to the overall charm of the film as it does give this film a look that makes it look like the cheap direct to VHS horror films of the eighties but with that being said tho this isn't the eighties and therefor there should have been more time devoted to making sure that the films effects look as good as they possibly could have done and while this might not have been possible as it's not been revealed just what the films budget is in the first place given the fact that it's a remake of a cult horror film with the same production company behind the original film it's not hard to assume that this film had a small budget to begin with and therefor had a small effects budget and with that in mind the makers of the film did do the best with what little effects budget that they might have had to begin with.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Just to give you all an idea of how big of a deal that this film could be it was filmed and fully completed all the way back in 2023. With it only just seeing the day of light this year because of the fact that big Hollywood studios deemed the film to be "unreleasable" this is despite the fact that Terrifier 3 another unrated film with lots of gore and violence came out a year prior and proved that films with lots of gore and violence can be hit films so it's odd that they passed on this film which by the way is tamer then Terrifier 3 is all due to concerns about the violence shown in the film which does go to show you that Hollywood right now is scared of taking chances on these smaller films when Hollywood itself was built on taking chances and was built on leading the pack when it comes to the entertainment industry but somewhere down the line they lost there courage and stopped taking chances on unrated films because they very easily could have released this film unrated and it still would have worked why because of the fact that this is still a good film and that's not due to it's violent nature altho that is a big part of it but it's also due to the fact that it has likable characters and that it has a really strong plot it got all of the basics down so it would have made any studio that chose to release this film some small amount of money but because of the fact that they got scared of releasing an unrated film it now means that Cineverse the company that actually had the courage to pick the film up is now going to make all of the money that they could have been making and with this film already making $2.2 million American dollars at the box office this should hopefully prove to big studios that there is money to be made in releasing these unrated films on the big screen.

With this film being a horror action comedy that does mean that it does have to split it focus three ways and focus on each one of those elements equally. This is something that this film does fail to do sadly as while the action and the comedy aspects are really good the film is lacking in anything that's even close to horror as the only thing that's even remotely close to being scary in this film is the look of The Toxic Avenger himself and that's really it as there's not even kind of jump scare in this film altho in saying that it could also be argued that what makes the film is the amount of gore that's on show which would be a fair enough argument to make but at the same time tho for a film that's billed as being a horror film as well as an action film and a comedy film you do want some genuinely good scares in there for good measure as that would mean that the people that love horror films will be happy but in saying that tho the film does have alot of painfully funny moments in it be it from the title cards that pop up on screen for all of the different locations to even alot of the characters names all of which feel right at home in cult type of film bottom line there's going to be something funny in this film for every one with there being one or two good jokes every few minuets and the few that don't land don't matter because of the fact that the film throws so many jokes at you anyway that it's already telling one or two good jokes the second that that bad one has been told with it being clear as day that this films writer and director Macon Blair really does know how to tell a good joke as alot of the films jokes are just that painfully funny in the final cut of the film.


Sadly tho it's not all good news for this film as this film does have a few bad things about it like for example the stepfather and son able between Winston an Wade which is not only very badly done in the first place as the film makes a big deal about Wade calling Winston dad near the end of the film when he also does it earlier on in the film as well with that part of the film feeling not only rushed but also unneeded as well. With the film even having a weak villain in Bob Garbinger as we get to find out next to nothing about this character other then the fact that he's cruel to his brother and that's really it as we don't even know why he is the way that he is in the first place which just makes him come across as being evil for the sake of being evil as really you could have had literally any other character about from Toxie play Bob's role in the movie and nothing would change as that's how little that we the audience get to find out about him as a character when it would have helped the film out quite alot if we did get some background information on him and while there is chance that we might be getting that in the graphic novel version of the of the film it is still something that should have been in this film as that would have made it easier for us the audience to decide on if we like or if we hate him as a character and while yes we do get to find out what his end goal is which is basically to use Toxies mutation as a way to make money by selling to the people of the greatly names St. Roma's Village that's not enough to make him a memorable character in his ow right rather all it does is make you wish that there was more effort put into him as a character.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty minuets and twenty four seconds. While this might be seen as being a bad thing for alot of superhero type films given just how much alot of them would have to set up first and still tell a good story given that this film really isn't a superhero film it dos kind of work with that more shorter running time with the film even having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time with this film even using it's running time wisely in one respect with that being the fact that the plot of the film is really well developed as alot of the films plot is really well developed with things being set up all throughout the film in the background which then turn out to play a slightly bigger role in the films climax with the best example of this being a concert that gets mentioned in one scene near the start of the film but then it turns out that the band that are playing the show are also these guards that are hired by Bob's brother to take out Toxie and J.J. with Toxie taking them out during the concert sadly tho this isn't something that extends to the films characters as they aren't that well developed at all with characters like J.J. Bob , Fritz , Wade and Kissy not really being given much time to get across just what it is that there personalities are meant to be in the first place which is something that does make them come across as being really forgettable characters which is something that does make sense as the film does mostly focus on Winston but at the same time tho there should have been some effort to make the side characters just as memorable as what the main character of the film is but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.


So now then as this is ana action film that really does mean that I have to actually talking about the actual action 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 action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this films action being where we get to see alot of the over the top gore that scared alot of the big Hollywood studios of releasing this film in the first place and while the gore that does help to make the actin all the more crazy and entertaining then what it already is this films action is also really creative with this being due to the fact that the hero of the film is not only a small person but also uses a mop as his main weapon which is something that does keep all of the films actions scenes from getting dull and boring as you never really know just what it is that the film is going to do next with the best action scene in the whole entire film being he films third act as while the gore isn't as over the top in that sequence it is still a really over the top sequence in it's own right as Winston and a now fully mutated Bob duke it out all over Bob's estate with it going on for so long that it does become comical as both characters survive things that really should have killed them which could be seen as being over kill but at the same time tho it is also something that does feel true to the films more cartoonish nature and tone something which is also true for the rest of the films action as well as this films action is filled to the brim with over the top things in all of them as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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


Overall out of this film an the new Red Sonja film which got released on the exact same day as this film did this film is quite easily the better of the two films as this film is nothing more then pure fun to watch with this film hopefully proving to big hollywood studios that people actually want to see unrated 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 of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

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

Sunday, 31 August 2025

Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama Film Review



Horror films come in all shapes and sizes with alot of them being big screen releases that become mainstream. However the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today is the exact opposite as this is a film that really is pretty much a direct to VHS movie and really is the very definition of a cult film and so then join me as in review the film that ring three iconic horror actors together in one film with the film in question being called simply just "Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a group of teen break into a bowling ally to try and steal a trophy they find themselves in for the fight for their lives they accidentally unleash and evil imp from one of the trophies. 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 which is something that's to be expected as this film was made on a really small budget and is basically a direct to VHS movie and those typically don't have good plots to them with this films plot being as good as it was ever going to be given the fact that the script was written in just ten days and only had one draft written which is something that might explain why this films plot is a bit all over the place and isn't that well focused as the plot of the film does disappear for large portions of the film which does make it hard to tell just what the plot of the film is meant to be alot of the time with this not really being helped by the fact that this plot isn't that strong of a plot both of which are things that could have been fixed if there were more rewrites to the script as that would then allow for the plot of the film to be alot more focused and for it to be alot more stronger of a plot but on the flip side of that is this films plot is wonderfully cheesy and campy and over the top which is something that does add to the overall cult like nature of the film 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 horror legend Linnea Quigley as Spider , Andras Jones as Calvin and Robin Rochelle as Barbara "Babs" Peterson. Also starring in this film is Carla Baron as Frankie , Kathi O'Brecht as Rhonda , John Stuart Wildman as Keith , Hal Havins as Jimmie , Brinke Stevens as Taffy , Michelle Bauer as Lisa , Dukey Flyswatter as the voice of Uncle Impie and George "Buck" Flower as The Janitor.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this films acting being as good as it was ever going to be as nobody would have expected this film to have good or even great acting in it due to it's title alone but that's exactly what we get in this film with this films actors turning in the best possible performance that they could have done given the plot of the film and he fact that this film was filmed in a whopping twelve days which means that there's pretty much to time to do a take two and that is something that does really show through in the film as alot of the acting in this film does feel like the kind of acting that you'd see in the first take of any movie and while this films actors do the best job that they could have done with the material that was handed to them this films acting would have been greatly improved if they were given the time to do a take two as then the actors would be able to turn in some more better performances with the best actor in this film being Linnea Quigley as while all of the films actors know full well that there in a bad film she seems to be one of the few actors in the film that are actually trying to turn in a better then OK performance whilst also quite clearly having the time of her life being in this film with the acing 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 actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does effect the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.


This film does fair a little bit better when it comes to there characters as the films characters are somewhat memorable but not for the right reasons tho. As while the characters are decently well done there still one dimensional characters only now it's pushed to the extreme which does make these characters laughable like take for example Spider all we really know about her as a character is that she's the films touch girl character and that's it and it's something that the film takes great pride in showing us every single time that she's on screen to the point where that becomes her sole personality and it's the same thing for all of the films characters where they all get one personality trait which the film then pushes so far to the extreme that it makes these characters feel more like cartoon characters due to the fact that we get to find out literally nothing else about of this films characters which to be does make these characters somewhat memorable but it's not in the way that you'd want them to be as while yes granted you do find yourselves routing for the characters that your supposed to like and hating the characters that your supposed to hate you do also find yourself laughing at the characters alot more then you cheering for them which is something that does add to this films more cult like nature and it is something that does make what could have been seen as being a really bad film now come across as being a film that's still bad but it's also pretty enjoyable due to how bad that pretty much everything in the film as there is clear effort gone into making this film and it is something that does shine through in the final cut of the film but at the same time tho none of that effort went into making this films characters memorable in the way that you'd want them to be memorable.


As was mentioned at the very start of this review this film did become a cult hit and it's not that hard to see why. As everything about this film from the choice of it's main actors to even it's title does scream cult film and to this films credit it does fully know that it's not going to be a hit film and therefor does have alot more fun with itself because of it with even the characters as one dimensional as they are in the film are still some pretty characters that have some pretty fun and more often then not funny scenes and while you can quite tell that the actors in this film are never in the same shot as The Imp despite them being in the exact same scene it is something that whilst it does make the film look cheap it does also add to the overall cult like nature of the film with this film even being such a cult hit that it spawned a knock off film in 1991 called Sorority Babes In The Dance-A-Thon of Death and just a few shorts years ago spawned a sequel called Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2 which is something that the film might not have been able to do if it was the more traditional hit film but due to the fact that this film is nothing more then a campy film with a title that does make it clear as day that this was never going to be a hit film the film was able to find it's own audience with it being that audience that helped to make it the cult film that it is today with this being something that does go to show you that you don't need to be a good film to be remembered as sometimes all you need is a stupid title and a stupid plot and that's something that this film does have with the title of the film even making it standout among all of the other direct to VHS horror movies out there just due to how eye catching that the title alone really is.

Out of this film and Nightmare Sisters it's fair to say that whilst Nightmare Sisters was the better overall film this one was the one that was most fun film to watch. As you can tell right from the very start of this movie that this films writer and director David DeCoteau knew that he was making a film that was going to be fun and therefor he just went nuts with the film with him making a film that whilst it's not as good as Nightmare Sisters is this one is still that's fun to watch due to the fact that it does look like that everybody else is on the joke with that being something that does make the film all the more  fun to watch with everyone who was making this film quite clearly having a blast with it so much so that all three leading ladies returned for the sequel with really the only thing that's really letting this film down being the fact that it doesn't take fully advantage of it's bowling alley setting as we barely get to see much of the bowling alley itself and when we do get to see it it's usually just the stuff that you'd usually see and nothing behind the scenes which makes having a horror film be set mostly in a bowling alley all the more pointless as that does limit the kind of creative kills that you could do with these characters given it's unique setup and villain but at the same time tho given that they could only afford to film at the bowling alley at night and that's really it that might have been the reason as to why we only really saw the bowling lanes and not much else as the rest of it might have been locked up but it is something that does make you wonder what the makers of this film would have done if they did get back to wear the pins are loaded for example or if they did go behind the scenes of the bowling alley instead of them going behind the scenes of the mall that the bowling alley is housed in which is still a great idea but at the same time you do still want to see more of the titular bowl-o-rama and not the building that's being housed in.


Given the title of this film this film is of a course a horror comedy with the makers of this film actually putting just as much effort into the horror aspect of the film then they did the comedy aspect of the film. It's just a shame then that the films comedy isn't that good with the film having jokes that you can see coming a mile away with the only somewhat decent joke being the slight running gag that the film has early on where these three girls just keep on knocking this poor Janitor into the same room all without each of them seeing the other which is a good little running joke and was one that could have carried on all throughout the film however tho the film for no apparent reason drops that joke in favor of the Janitor being kind of a death person who just winds up annoying Spider alot of the time as he comes to the same conclusion that she's been trying to tell him for a good while which don't get me wrong is a decent joke but it's not as good as the previous running joke with the same character was as at least with that joke you could pass it from character to character and it would still feel fresh and different but here because of the fact that the makers of this film stuck him with the only capable character in the film there kind of running joke is one that does start to get old realm fast even more so when you realise that the running joke with Spider and the Janitor gets in the way of Spider's pudding relationship with Calvin and it's like that with alot of the films jokes with the films jokes at best being OK to average jokes but nothing special and at worst being just downright unfunny but to this films credit they did know to keep it fairly balanced and didn't really lean to far into either aspect which given this films title is something that they very easily could have done.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and nineteen minuets and forty two seconds. Which to be fair to this film is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you'd expect a film like this one to have with the film even having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time and while yes this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely by not developing ether it's plot or it's characters this is the kind of the film that really doesn't need either of those things for it to work in the first place as this film is nothing more that a trashy horror comedy that knows exactly what it is and that's a bad movie which to be fair is sometimes just all you want from a movie as while yes it would have helped this film out quite alot if it did have a more developed plot as that would make the plot of the film all the more interesting then what it already is and if the films characters were more developed as that would not only make them more interesting as characters but it would also give us the audience more of a reason to route for these characters outside of the basic one of them is the good guy and the other's the bad guy this is the type of the film that really doesn't require any of that and to this films credit it does work on it's own merit as while yes granted this film is a trashy horror comedy it's also a fun and campy movie that knows exactly what it is and really isn't afraid of being the kind of bad movie that it already knows that it is which is something that dies make this film all the more to watch because of it 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 horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. However tho this is a bad thing as the films kills just aren't that good either with alot of them being rather plain and boring to watch with none of them really taking as full advantage of the films supernatural aspect as they really could have done which is something that could come down to one of two things the first one being the fact that The Imp is stop motion animated and therefor really can't do all that much in the first place and the second might just be the fact that this film most likely had a really small budget in the first place and therefor the films kills can't be as good as they perhaps would have been should the film have had a much more larger budget in the first place either way it is something that does prevent all of this films kills from being good or memorable with the film not even having a single good kill in it as while alot of the films are indeed creative and fun to watch in the film as there all lacking that extra special something that makes them good in the first place with the only thing that would have made any of this films kills better was if the film actually took full advantage of it's supernatural aspect by having The Imp himself actually be the one to kill people and not have him control two or three girls and have them kill them for him which while it's a solid idea it is one that does hold the films kills back from being as good as they really could have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall it really hard to fully judge this film s while yes it is a really bad film no one will ever deny that but it's also a film that's so bad that it's good with the things that make it bad also being the things that make it fun to watch in the first place with this film being a really campy film that knows that's bad film and really isn't afraid to be exactly that which does also help to make the film fun to watch as well 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 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in tis very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get 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.

Sunday, 24 August 2025

Nightmare Sisters Film Review



Horror in the eighties was truly a sight to be seen as while we had giants like Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger among others racking up victims on the big screen. We also had a slew of direct to VHS horror films that range from being really good to being really weird but all of them are a good example of just how big horror in the eighties really was and so then join me as I review the film that used the exact same cast and crew from Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama with the film in question being called simply just "Nightmare Sisters" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when three nerdy guys find themselves being invited to the house of three equally nerdy girls the guys find themselves in for the fight of there lives when they accidentally unleash an ancient evil that takes over the girls. 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 bad with this films plot also not really being all that good either as while it is a rather simple plot it's perhaps a little bit to simple for it's own good as this films plot is also a it on the weak side of things as well as while this films plot is more then strong enough ti support an entire feature length film it's also not a plot that's as good as it could have been due to the fact that there's not really that much focus on the films plot with the film oddly enough giving alot more focus to it's three leading ladies then it is the actual plot of the film which is something that does make sense as this film does have three fairly big names in the world of horror all starring in one movie together but that would mean nothing if the plot of the film isn't that good and while this is a film that really doesn't need to be a deep and thought provoking plot in order for it to work as here it just needs to be simple and that's really it but at the same time tho the plot still needs to be good in order for people to actually like the 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 Return Of The Living Dead star Linnea Quigley as Melody and The Slumber Party Massacre star Brinke Stevens as Marci. Also starring in this film is Michelle Bauer as Mickey , Richard Gabai as Kevin , William Dristas as Duane , Marcus Vaughter as Freddy , Timothy Kauffman as Phil , Matthew Phelps as J.J. , C. Jay Cox as Bud , Michael Sonye as Omar and Jim Culver as The Exorcist.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of this films actors turning in some fairly solid performances which is something that is truly shocking as alot of this films actors are really unknown to at the very best very little known actors and therefor it would have been foolish of anyone to expect to see good acting in this film and yet that's exactly what we get and while granted this films acting isn't OSCAR worthy it is a damn sight better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this films acting really should have been bad but you can tell right from the first frame that all of this films actors are giving it there all and are just having a blast making this movie with the films best actor or in this case actors being Linnea Quigley , Brinke Stevens and Michelle Bauer as not only are they the three biggest names in this film but they are also the ones that get more of a chance to show off there acting skills as well and what we get to see from them from an acting point of view really does help to make this films acting really even more better then what it had any right to be as well 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 characters actual personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really foes help to lower the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.


When it comes to it's characters this film really doesn't all that much better as to be frank this films characters are really weak. As all of them just fall under two categories either nerdy or popular and that's it as none of them have anything about them that makes them standout from one another which is fine given that this film is meant to be a very low budget B movie horror comedy but at the same time this is also a huge issue with the film as all of the films characters are just these very flat and very dull and boring one dimensional characters which does make them hard to watch alot of the time with it being main fully obvious that the makers of this film put more thought and attention into the fact that they wanted to let you know that all three of this girls main leading characters are drop dead gorgeous then they did into quite literally anything else in the film and while having three drop dead gorgeous girls in the film is great for the over art it means nothing if all three of them have the personality of a blank wood but to be to fair tho seeing Linnea Quigley play "dumb One" one of the trio was hugely entertaining in it's own right but it doesn't excuse the fact that all of this films characters could have been written so much more better as that would then make them memorable characters and it would make this film stand out all the more from all of the other direct to VHS horror film that came out around this time but because of the fact that the makers of this film were just content with having badly done characters then it means that instead of standing out from those films by having these memorable the film instead blends in by having badly written characters.


To give this film some sort of credit it's three bully characters are more of a parody of bully characters that you'd see in other eighties movies from around the same time. With this being something that does oddly make those three characters all the more fun to watch as even tho you know full well just what it is that there going to say and how there going to act in the film that's part of the charm of there characters and while it's not something that makes them likable characters in any way whatsoever it is something that does make oddly enjoyable to watch in this film where as alot of bully characters regardless of if there in a horror film or not feel like that there being written by someone who was never bullied in their life and so are just having them say or do things that they think a bully would say or do and while it could be argued that that's also the case here that is something that does add to the charm of these characters as there written in a such an over the top kind of way that the ultimately end up becoming human cartoon characters where as the characters that aren't the bullies whilst they still are written in that over the top kind of way don't have any charm to them and thus even tho we are meant to hate the bully characters and want to see them die at the end of the film we the audience end up having more fun with those characters as there for the most part written like the heroes even tho there meant to be the bullies and therefor we end up liking them alot more then what we should do and feel sad when there gone as all we get left with are a bunch of characters that aren't that well written and have nothing that's actually interesting about them.

This film is home to what might the weakest slap in horror film history as during the opening prolog of the film a woman is seen talking to a fortune teller where he straight up tells her that her husband is hooking up with someone after his mystic ball possess him and starts to then taunt the woman. It's only then that the woman gives him what has to be the weakest slap in horror film history because it didn't look like that it hurt at all no matter how loud they made it sound it just looked weaked and it makes you wonder if actor Michael Sonye was on a really tight schedule as it looks like that they didn't do a second take of that slap which is something that really should have done as the acting from both the woman in question and Michael Sonye wasn't that good either it looking like that they spent all of five minuets on that scene even tho it sets up something that is then payed off later on in the film and yet if they did do a second take of that scene then not only could there acting have been so much more better then what it is as the pair of them are just hamming it up but not in a fun way either then it would also mean that we'd get a much more better slap out of it as her slap was so weak that if it was on WWE they'd have to reshoot it after the episode was broadcast as that's just how weak that her slap was but to be fair tho it's that scene that does let you know right away just what kind of film that your in for as that scene is so campy and over the top much like the film itself that it does get you ready for the madness that's to follow it so in that regard maybe it was a great thing that the slap was that weak but on the flip of that is the fact that regardless of if it was intentional or not it still has to look like that it hurt where as the slap as it is looks really painless and not really painful.


While this film is meant to be a horror comedy it's a little bit hard to tell just where the makers of this film put there focus on in this regard. As the film has very scares in it and the laughs feel more like the jokes that would be in any of the lesser Scary Movie sequels as there not really all that funny either with there being one or two passable jokes at best with one of those being a reference to The Exorcist as the exorcist in this movie just straight up implies not only was he the one delivering the exorcism to Regan but that this movie and that movie also take place in the same fictional universe as a result of it which all that does is just make you wonder if with the release of The Exorcist: Believer did the makers of thar film resurrect the world that this film takes place due to the fact that the priest character in this film also by his own account be the one to cure Regan of her evil spirits as well and while that reference was solid it also wasn't needed either as the film very easily could have had him just be a random character or if they wanted to go all in with The Exorcist joke then why not get someone who played one of the fathers in that movie to play the priest in this movie with the best joke that the film has being anything with the bullies as anything they do in this movie is just pure gold with there best scene being quite early on in the movie where they straight up make up rules for a rule book just to keep our hero characters from going out something which they later bring back when the bullies have all three guys tied up and go mad at them for apparently breaking a rule that they've just made up all for no reason whatsoever which is just how funny that these bully characters could be and while all of the other characters including the girls themselves get some decent jokes as well nothing will ever top whatever the bullies say or do as there just meant to be living breathing human cartoon characters and are rightfully treated as such in the final cut of the film itself.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty minuets and fifty six seconds. Which in all fairness to this film is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you'd expect a film like this one to have with this film having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time but in saying that tho this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the plot of the film isn't that well developed with it being very hard to tell just what it is that the main plot of the film is even meant to be as it does come across as the characters just doing thing not because the plot of the film demands it but rather to fill out the films running time when if the film just had a more developed plot then there would be no need for filler in this film in the first place with the film not even taking the time to fully develop it's character which in all fairness to this film is also an issue with other direct to VHS horror films as well as alot of them much like this one but alot more thought and effort into there cover art and not there characters but in saying that tho there should have bee more effort in this film to make it's characters stand out and be more developed as that would help the film become all the more better because of it and yet for one reason or another the makers of this film chose not do either of those things when doing either or both of them really would help us the audience to not only like the film but also care for it's characters alot more then what we already do in the first place 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 was in all honesty not that bad. However tho in saying that all of this films kills aren't that good either as there all the exact same kill where one of the bully characters just turns into dust for little to no reason with this film being one of the rare films where there actually isn't a best kill in the film as all of the films kills are the exact same kill which yes makes sense in terms of the film and the films main killer but at the same time it does make all of the films really boring to see with this being made all the more worse when you don't even get to see any gore at all which is something that would have made the film all the more better as then the film could at least have some more entertainment value to it but just having all three of the bully characters turn to dust after getting with all three of the possessed girls is a bit of a lame death even if all three bullies are characters that really did earn there deaths and therefor did deserve a more satisfying death for all three of them instead of just getting variations of the same death and even the films main villain gets a pretty lame death as she much like with the bullies gets turned to dust and that's really it and while that is something that really does mesh well with the films more comedic tone it does nothing for the films horror aspect in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 


Overall while it's hard to say if this film is a truly bad film or not as what it lacks for in scared and comedy it more then makes up in entertainment value and sometimes being entertaining is just as important then being a good film but with that being aid this is still a film that's not that very good either altho it's hard to say if this film is worse or better then Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 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 revue 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 this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got al of the images hat I personally used in this very review from the official Headhunter's Horror House 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.

Wednesday, 20 August 2025

The Munsters "Lily Munster–Girl Model" Review



With Wednesday currently gearing up to release the second part of it's second season in a few weeks and proving that creepy and cooky families do still have life in them. It only made sense that I took the time to remind you all of a show that was a rival to the original The Addams Family TV show and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Lily get a job with the episode in question being called simply just "Lily Munster–Girl Model" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when she's bored one night Lily decides that she wants to get a job in order to contribute anything to society. Now then interms of that 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 job that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad however tho this episodes plot isn't all that good as it is a very basic and simple plot which is something that does work well enough for the show as this is a sitcom afterall and those don't typically have deep and thought provoking plots in order to tell their stories well but in saying that tho this episodes plot is perhaps a little bit to simple and easy to follow not that that's a bad thing per-say but it's something that does hold the episode back quite alot as you know how the episode is going to end due to how simple that this episodes plot is when giving the episode a little bit more of a complicated plot that's more in line with say the "Eddie's Nickname" episode or even the pilot episode of the show would have helped the episode out a little bit in saying that tho this show does work it's best when it does have a simple plot much like this one and while this episodes plot isn't all that good there's still more thought and effort put into this plot then there was the 2022 Rob Zombie movie as this plot does have alot of care and attention put into it with the plot of this episode 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 episode is Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster , Yvonne De Carlo as Lily Munster and Al Lewis as Grandpa Munster. Also starring in this episode is Pat Priest as Marilyn Munster , Butch Patrick as Eddie Munster , Roger C. Carmel as Laszlo Brastoff , Nina Shipman as The Beautiful Girl , John Alvin as Mr. Franklin , Kimberly Beck as The Little Girl , Sally E. Morris as Colette , Sondra Teke as Millicent , Susan Wedell as The 1st Model , Tracy Butler as The 2nd Model , Lois Roberts as Irving and Lesley-Marie Colburn as A Girl Model.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty really good. With all of this episodes actors really giving us some truly wonderful performances with it even being in this episode that we get to see some of the wonderful chemistry between Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis as the two of them do share alot of screen time together with both of them also giving us some truly wonderful performances as well which is something that's to be expected as they have been with the show since episode one and so it does make sense that them and the rest of the series main actors would also turn in some really performances in their right as well with the best actor in the whole entire episode being Yvonne De Carlo as she does get alot to do in this episode which does give her a chance to show us just what she could do as an actress with her performance being as wonderfully over the top as a plot like this one would allow it to be with it being clear as day that she's having a blast making this episode which is something that really does shine through in her performance with the acing that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes 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 episode.


It was kind of a refreshing thing to not only see an episode where Lily is the main character but also one where she does actively look for a job as that does feel like something that her character would indeed do. With the rest of the shows characters being written both oddly OK and yet at the same time out of character as well as while it's perfectly in character for Herman to worry about Lily it's not in his character to actively stop her from doing something that she really wants to do as that just makes this version of the character feel like a character that was made in sixties with the same thing also being true Grandpa as well as they both go out of their way to make sure that Lily gets fired from her job when they have to no good reason for wanting to do and while this give us more of Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis in scenes together which is always fun to see it comes at the expense of their characters being in character as these two characters would do anything that they possibly could do to support Lily and would want to see her succeed and yet for some odd reason the episode frames her as being the bad guy and has her be the one that apologizes to them when they are the ones that mess up the fashion show that she takes part it look fair enough this episode was written at a time where women were just expected to stay home and not really get a job but this family had always been presented as a loving a caring family which makes it all the more weird that they would go out of their way to make sure that Lily gets fired from a job that she really likes doing and for the few very scenes that Eddie and Marilyn are in they seem to be written just fine.


Just sticking with what just being said for a minuet this episode does feel very of the time that it was being made in. As everything from the jobs that Lily goes out for to even how both Herman and Grandpa act when she does get a job does feel very dated as the only jobs that we see her go out for are as a home Nurse , a secretary and finally a model all of which are very female dominated jobs and even taking into account that this episode was made in the sixties it does make it feel very dated that she would only go out for those jobs and nothing more then that but on the plus side seeing her get a modelling job on her first try was very impressive but at the same time it does feel like a very stereotypical female job to have where as it would have been more forward thinking to have her say working in a bank or working in a graveyard both of which do feel very true to her character but given that the world at that point in time just wasn't ready to see a female working any other job then those three that she does go out for it does mean that we get stuck with an episode that was dated be the seventies now to be clear that doesn't mean that this is a bad episode as it's really not as the very fact that they even had a plot with Lily going out to get a job in the first place where as must sitcoms would avoid that kind of plot like the plague is vert forward thinking in it's own right it's just something that could have been done alot more better then what it already was in the first place as it does seem like that the makers of this episode were just doing the bare minimum as even the fact that she's the one that apologizes to Herman when she thinks that he's at the show with another woman when he's just there with a disguised Grandpa doesn't work as they should also apologize to her as well.

While both Marilyn and Eddie don't really have alot to do in this episode other then come in for one or two jokes in the episode. It oddly enough doesn't hurt the episode as you don't really notice that there not in it all that much which is odd as you very easily could have had both characters take part in their own little subplot away from the main plot like we know that Eddie needs help with his homework thanks to the opening scene where Grandpa says as such so why not have the subplot be about those two characters just doing Eddie's homework and all of the scrapes that they get into while there trying to get it done which yes granted that does sound like a terrible plot but given that it's meant to be the B plot it doesn't really need to be that good and it still would have given the characters something to do in the episode or heck they even could have had Eddie try to help Marilyn get a boyfriend something which would make sense as that's the whole plot of the first episode and is also kind of the running joke with her character but for whatever reason the makers of this episode chose not to have those two characters play that big of a role in the episode with them essentially being nothing more then cameos as that's how little that they add to the plot of the episode as the family works really well when it's all of them together and that's something that this show should be about from time to time as it shows us the audience that even tho they look weird when compared to us it might us that's the weird ones because there still acting like a normal and loving family despite the fact that they look creepy and while that would mean thankfully rewriting the entire Herman and Grandpa part of the episode we would ultimately get a much more better episode out of it.


Even tho this episode does feel a little bit more dated in it's premise it would be hard to deny the fact that this is a really fun filled episode of the show. With the all of the main characters of the episode getting into some sort of wacky hijinks all of which do serve to make would could been nothing more then just an OK episode of the show seem alot more fun to watch as it will always be pure fun seeing Al Lewis and Fred Gwynne just being there wacky selfs together and the very fact that Grandpa doesn't quite the potion just right when he turns himself in a beautiful woman as even tho his body changes he still has his voice is a wacky and fun concept with the episode even having some really fun looking effects one of which would have been really hard to do even back then as when Lily is trying out for the secretary we see the bar that appears on top of the type writer just continue to float away until she pulls it back which again is a really fun visual and it's one that does make you wonder how they did it as there's no possible way that you could have done an effect like that even back in the sixties let alone on a TV show budget and yet it's here in this episode and it's one that does work as it help to sell you on just how much fun that this episode really is with even the end gag with Eddie being turned into a little girl being one that is a fun idea and it's one that would have been even more fun if the next episode actually did something that and it's the fact that this episode was fun does say that the makers of this show really did know how to keep the episode fun and family friendly and yet still have those gut bustlingly funny moments that do catch you off guard.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty five minuets and twenty eight seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the exact grand total running time that the rest of the shows episodes have with this episode even having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running tome and while the episode doesn't really use it's running time all that wisely as the plot of the episode isn't that well developed that's also something that could be for sitcoms as a whole as nearly all of them don't have plots that are that well developed and isn't an issue that's exclusive to this episode with this episode not even requiring a well developed plot as it only needs the basic set up and that's really it and to be fair to this episode that's all it really needs however tho this episodes characters could have done with a bit of character development as the episode doesn't really give them any to speak off but at the same time tho alot of sitcoms don't really develop there characters either but here it is something that does stick out like a sore thumb due to the fact that both Herman and Grandpa were quite clearly the ones in the wrong and while yes Lily should have said sorry for thinking that Herman was cheating on her Herman also should have said sorry for not telling Lily how he truly felt about her getting this job in the first place but for whatever reason the makers of this episode only saw Lily as being the one in the wrong when she's not as in the wrong as Herman and Grandpa is as she while she did do something wrong so id they and yet there denied the chance to be developed as characters all for no reason whatsoever but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.


So now then as this is comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With all of this episodes characters both main characters or not getting some really good jokes in this episode and while Lily does get alot of good jokes when she's trying out for various jobs she oddly doesn't get the best joke in the episode as that honor goes to both Herman and Grandpa as in the scene where we see Herman trying different potions to make him more appealing to women we get to see him take potions based of various celebrities of the day however the makers of this episode go that extra step by not only having Herman dressed like them but also talk and act exactly like them all the while keeping all of the Herman make up on and while that set up alone is more then enough to make that joke really good it gets more funnier when Marilyn comes into Grandpa's lair and sees Herman dressed up as Texas Cowboy all of which results in her breaking down in laughter and just running out of the room which might not sound like much but you see it in the actual episode it's a jokes that comes across as being far more better as we get to see all three actors just having the time of their lives and it's something that really does make that joke be the best joke which is really saying something as there a lot of really good jokes in this episode as even seeing Lily be this great model that literally floats across the floor is a good joke in it's own right in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall whilst this episode does come across as being date it's also an episode that is a really fun episode of the show and if people can easily look past just how dated that this episode does appear to be then there will be some people that will really like this episode due to how fun that it is 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 re in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode 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 girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk , Tenor and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this episode being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this episode 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.

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