Minnie's Midnight Massacre Film Review

For some odd reason the in thing to do with low budget horror movies is to have an established kids characters be the main villain of the film. As while there have now been plenty of horror films where Mickey Mouse has been the main villain the film i'm going to be talking to you all about today sees Minnie Mouse take centre stage and what's worse is that there are horror films in the works for both Pluto and oddly enough Betty Boop of all thing along with several Popeye's Revenge sequels so then join me as I review the film that wants to be like Slaughter High mixed with Scream but with none of the charm to pull it off with the film in question being called simply just "Minnie's Midnight Massacre" enjoy.

The plot of this film is twenty years after leaving classmate to die four friends go to remote house only to find themselves in the fight for there lives when they all start getting killed off one by one. 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. With the films basic plot being nothing more then a rip off of Slaughter High as both films do have a strikingly similar set up to them with the only difference being the fact that Slaughter High takes place in a high school where as here it's mainly just a random house and that's really it which fair enough is very creative for these types of films as alot of them just have the characters staying at what is basically a cabin in the woods or the house that belongs to someone related to the main character where as there they are just staying at this house just to get away from it all for the weekend. Even so tho this films plot does feel like a very by the book and very by the numbers slasher plot with there being nothing new added to it to make it seem interesting again and while the film does try to do something new by adding in a surprise second killer at the end of the film even that's not enough to make this films plot be anything more then average as all it does is remind you of much more better movies with the plot of this film not really being rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Cliff Dean as Will , Indira Starr as Bell , Doug Jeffery as Deputy Crews and Erin Marie Garrett as Honey. Also starring in this film is Mckenna Smith as Young Evie , Kace Winfield as Young Will, one of this films executive producers Derrick Redford as Sheriff Long , Hannah Hueston as Evie , Kinley Moody as Young Bell , Joplyn McDonald as Minnie-Winnie , Kennan Ainsworth as Young Honey and one of this films executive producers Tiffany McDonald as Minnie.

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. While nobody expects good acting from these types of films the acting in this film is actually alot more better then what it really should have been as while yes this films acting is still pretty bad that was always going to be the case given the fact that's a very low budget horror film and therefore of course the acting in the film was always going to be bad as they mostly likely wouldn't have been able to afford to do a take two. With the films best actor being Indira Starr as Bell as she does come across as being the only actor that's actively trying to turn in a good performance with the rest of the films actors being content with just barely phoning in there performances. With the only other exception maybe being Tiffany McDonald as Minnie which even then it's debatable on if she's good in the movie due to the fact that she doesn't get to do a whole lot in the film despite her being the title character of the film and yet with Indira you can see that she is trying to turn in a good performances she really only needed better writing and actual direction from this films producer , writer and director Brett Bentman and she really would have been able to do exactly that. 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 doesn't give any of this films actors absolutely anything 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 harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Character wise this film does fair somewhat better then alot of these other horror films do due to the fact that alot of the films characters have a single personality trait each. With both Will and Bell being the nice one of the group , Honey being the groups resident dumb one and Evie being the b*tch of the group with none of the characters straying to far from there given personality trait and while the fact that they do have a personality trait to begin with does make them ten times better then any of the characters from Harry Boxley it still doesn't make them that well done as characters as the film does nothing with it's characters. Due to the fact that the film doesn't doesn't take the time to show us why we should care about any of them as instead it keeps on showing us flashbacks which show that the group minus Will were all bullies to this one kid and all that does is make us hate them even more as they do act pretty mean to this kid and while yes it could be argued that they were only kids and therefore didn't know any better which is something that would be fair enough were it not for the fact that Evie still acts like a bully to this very day with her forcing her friends to do things that they don't want to do all for no good reason therefor why should we care for these characters as they clearly haven't grown up enough. Which does mean that we are just counting down the minuets until they all get killed off and when it does happen we don't find ourself cheering for the heroes and wanting them to survive rather we find ourself cheering for the villain when we should be routing for the characters and wanting to see them survive the film. With the only somewhat likable characters in the whole entire film being both Will and Bell and even then it's more due to the fact that Will was hesitant to take part in the bullying but there is something that happens to his character later on in the film which makes him unlikable and will be something that will be getting discussed in this review.

Every since The Mouse Trap came out it's oddly been a thing for people to turn Mickey Mouse into a horror villain. Yet alot of them this film included fail to take full advantage of that as while this film is being listed as being a horror comedy there's nothing funny said in the film at all in fact there's barely anything scary in this film whereas with The Mouse Trap you could at least make the point that it was the first Mickey Mouse themed horror film and therefor they were will still trying to work out what it is that they could do to make the fact that this famous mouse is now a slasher killer yet the only thing that they had to do was make it a full blown horror comedy. This was something that Screamboat actually got right as it knew right away that no one was going to be taking this film seriously and therefor it just went bulls to the wall with the amount of jokes that it was throwing at you with alot of that films jokes being about Disney itself and it's the fact that that film embraced the fact that it was a silly film with a silly idea that made it work so well in the first place and yet with this film they try and find a balance between both Screamboat and The Mouse Trap by having these moments that are meant to be funny when the characters are drunk and off set that with these more serious moments like when a grown up Bell and Will are talking about what happened twenty years ago and how it's still effecting them and yet it just doesn't work as this is a film that should be silly and that should be played for laughs as the very idea of having a beloved cartoon character be the main villain of the film is on it's self a very dumb idea and is not one that requires a super serious film in order for it to work. Whilst yes the Blood And Honey films are super serious films they also have alot of creative and fun kills that balance that out and yet in this film they don't do any of that as the makers of this film only made this film as quick cash grab and not because they wanted to make a genuinely good film.

To make matters for this film they do try to have a mystery over who the killer of the film is yet they outright tell us who it's going to be in the opening scene of the film. With the rest of the film being the characters wondering if the person that they left in this storm shelter yet has disappeared for two decades is the one killing them this is where the film felt more dumb as if you want to have a mystery over who the killer is then fine do that just give us clues as to who the killer is and don't show the main characters in a negative light in flashbacks or if you want to do something that's more akin to Slaughter High where the characters no full well who the killer is and try to appeal to them then fine do that just don't have a mystery. Yet this film tries do to both and it just doesn't work as we the audience know full well who the killer of the film and therefor we spend the entirety of the film ahead of the characters interms of what information that they no and all that does is take all the fun out of it as there is a good mystery to be had here and it is something that would have been good if the makers of the film hadn't had the literal opening scene of the movie after the opening credits out right tell us who the main killer of the film is as then we could have been wondering not only who it is but also what there motives are. With that being something that could have made the film have this rewatch value to it as then we would have a reason to keep on coming back to this film to see if there was any missed clues that would have told us who the killer of the film was and yet by trying to have it both ways where the killer is revealed early on but the characters don't know who it is all that does is make the characters seem even more dumb then what they already are in the first place.

This film does try to do something that not alot of these types of horror films have tried to do that being to have a surprise second villain. Which in of it itself is a really good idea as the film does make Will Minnie's helper in a surprise third act twist however the film never takes the time to explain not only why Will is helping to kill his friends of over twenty years but also how he managed to not only get Winnie as she was then known out of the shelter and also keep in touch with her for a large amount of time with none of this being helped by the fact that it does go against how Will was portrayed in the rest of the film as all throughout the rest of the film he written as the groups big brother and someone who would always want to protect his friends and yet just for the sake of having a twist ending the makers of this film have him turn on and kill Bell. With much like Winnie putting on a mouse mask and changing his name to Willie all of which does make this twist hard to buy into as all throughout the rest of the film we don't get to see ant hint of the fact that Will might not be as sane as he's letting on therefor it does seem out of place when they do pull of this twist whereas if the makers of this film did take the time to show us the fact that Will might be more insane then what he's letting on either with a glance or even by having him not be attacked by Minnie it would have been more then enough to let us know that there's something up with his character but in saying this tho having be attacked by Minnie is something that does do a good enough job of throwing us of the fact that there might be a second villain. However it's the small things that do make the big thanks not add up as they could have had him dress up as a mouse and kill some people in the film even if we didn't know that it was hi at that point in time.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and fifteen minuets and twenty three seconds. With this films running time being a huge issue for the film as while the film does have more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time the film also takes up to the thirty to thirty eight minuet mark to give us it's first kill which if the film was closer to two hours maybe one hour and thirty minuets wouldn't be an issue yet given it's current running time they needed to start getting to the kills by at the most the ten minuet mark with the film not even using it's running time all that wisely either as the film doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot. As the film is alot more focused on giving us repeats of the same flashback over and over again when having it play once maybe two or three times would have bee more then enough yet the film plays parts of it at every single chance that it gets and all that does is eat up screen time that would have been better spent of further developing it's plot yet as they don't do that we are left with a plot that feels as one dimensional as it's characters. As the films characters as is to be expected in one of these horrors films don't get any kind of character development and given just how quickly that these films are made and released in that is something that's to be expected and to this films credit it's not really as bad with the lack of character development as the other films like this are as the film does try to have scene where the characters talk about what happened in the past the issue is tho is that none of that effects the rest of the plot with none of the characters clearly having learned nothing from what they did as kids which makes Will and Bell talking about it seem pointless but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought . felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty OK at best. This film does commit the biggest sin that any slasher film could commit and that's the fact that not only do we have to wait an awfully long time to get to the first kill of the film but also when we do get to kills we barely get to see any of them as alot of them happen just off screen with the few that happen on screen being at best OK which does make it feel like that the makers of this film were to afraid to make a slasher film and therefore instead chose to d the absolute bare minimum when it comes to this films kills. At a push i'd say that the best kill in this film is when Minnie slices the ankles of Sheriff Long and then beats him to death but even then alot of that kill happens of screen and while that might be OK for a thriller of a psychological horror film as there your going more for the tension then anything else where as with a slasher film your going to see the kills and therefor we do want to see how the characters died and we want to see alot of the blows that killed them and yet the makers of this film thought that we dont want to see the films kills. Granted there might be a reason for why they didn't show us the kills in this film like maybe they just didn't have the money for the effects t make them to look good which s fair enough but at the same time they spend alot of time in showing us computer generate mice when we don't need to see them just take the money that was used to bring those mice to live and put it towards effects that would make the films kills look good that's all you'd have to do and that is something that would make this film alot more fun to watch in the process in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall no matter how bad this film is it's not even close to being as bad as The Mouse Trap was as that film was just awful and while there is a good chance that Betty's Revenge or any of the THREE Popeye's Revenge sequels that we're getting year might be bad one things for certain this film is a waste of a good idea as the idea of having Minnie Mouse be the main villain of a slasher film is a good idea it just needed  a better film making team to bring it to live is all 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 4.5 out of 10 from me.

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

Ready Or Not Film Review

Sequels are a very common thing in the world of horror in face in the eighties it was all that seemed to get. Well we are now about a day or two before we get another horror sequel with the film promising to be as much as fun as what the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today was as you all just know that I had to produce a tie in review for this film and what better film for that tie in to be then it's original film and so then join me as I review the film that makes playing hide and seek a deadly game with the film in question being called simply just "Ready Or Not" enjoy.

The plot of this film is the newly married Grace agrees to play a game of hide and seek with her new in laws however when the game turns deadly Grace finds herself in for the fight of her life. 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. The films plot is one that is oddly refreshing as it's a story that really hasn't been told before now with this being something that the Radio Silence team do do with alot of there films outside of course of there two Scream movies with it being something that does help this film out quite as alot as outside of the premise of the film you have no idea where the film is going story wise which does mean that when the film does give you a plot twist it is something that does land as it's something that not only makes sense in the context of the film but it's also something that we the audience generally didn't see coming. While yes granted this films plot isn't the strongest plot out there which again is common thread with alot of the Radio Silence films in this case it really doesn't matter all that much as the premise is more then strong enough on it's own to support an entire film and with the film being as fun as it is you really don't notice the fact that it's plot isn't as strong as it perhaps could have been and while yes it would have helped the film out quite alot if it's plot was alot more stronger this is the kind of film that doesn't need to have a strong plot in it 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 Samara Weaving as Grace ,Adam Brody as Daniel and Mark O'Brien as Alex. Also starring in this film is Henry Czerny as Tony , Andie MacDowell as Becky , Melanie Scrofano as Emilie , Kristian Bruun as Fitch , Elyse Levesque as Charity , Nicky Guadagni as Helene , John Ralston as Stevens , Liam McDonald as Georgie , Ethan Tavares as Gabe , Hanneke Talbot as Clara , Celine Tsai as Tina , Daniela Barbosa as Dora and Nat Faxon as the voice of Justin.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With alot of this films actors turning in some really good performances in this film which is something that's not all that surprising due to the fact that alot of this films actors are a bunch of really good actors in there own. Something which is made quite clear early on in the film is the fact that alot of this films actors are just having a blast making this film and it's that kind of energy that does allow them to turn in these really fun performances with this being no doubt due to the fact that this films directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett always try to have a more fun and relaxed set which does make it seem like that there making a movie with there friends with this kind of relaxed take to making a movie being something that does make the performances in this film all the more fun to watch. With the best actor in this film being Samara Weaving as Grace as even tho she really hasn't done that many horror films the ones that she has done has proven that Samara is a good horror actor and the fact that she's been able to branch out and turn in good performances in other none horror films does show you that she's a good actor in general with making Grace someone who could have been seen as being this very note character seem flawed and be a more fun character then what she very easily could have been. 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.

Much like with the films acting and it's plot the films characters are also a bunch of really well done characters in there own right. As the films characters are not only really original characters but are also characters that are really well written on top of that as it would have been very easy for the makers of this film to just straight copy and pasts several characters from other horror movies and add nothing to them to make them feel unique and new again but the fact that they went that extra mile to make alot of the characters that your meant to hate not only oddly likable but also quite funny is something that does show you that the makers of this film know how to make good and entertaining characters. With a good example of this being the main family members themselves as it would have been very easy for them to make characters like Daniel and Charity by these really unlikable people and have them remain that way for the rest of the film yet they don't do that as instead they give them scenes where they are allowed to explore other sides of there personality with the same thing even true for the character of Emilie who at first is someone that we are meant to be believe is nothing more then this goofy character who makes alot of mistakes which is something that does make her entertaining but then she has a scene in the film where she says that she's only doing this game so that her children who are innocent can live which does show of the fact that she has mothering side to her that wants to protect her kids at all costs. Grace on the flip side of that is something that at first appears to be this fun loving person that is madly in love with Daniel and wants to be accepted by his family at all costs yet we see that she is a fighter who is willing to fight for what she wants which is something that does make her a strong character because of it.

The game that the characters play in the film is hide and seek which on paper might seem like an easy game to play. Yet this is also where the film does somewhat fall apart as the film doesn't take the time to explain why playing this one particular game is seen as being a bad thing with it seeming like that the family just wanted to kill someone and Grace was the first person that they thought of and yet if they did take the time to explain the rules of this game and why playing this one game in particular is meant to be a bad things for Grace as don't forget we don't know if the alot of the other games involve killing someone then it would have made the rest of the film be all the more tense as now we the audience are fully aware of the rules of the game much like Grace herself is. The film also doesn't take the time to explain why it has to be the bride that gets killed as that does seem like a pointless add on to the games rules as surely any passing person would have worked just fine and heck it might have worked even better if it was a random passing person as then the family could use there power and influence to make sure that the police arrest someone else for there crimes and yet if the film did take the time to tell us why it had to be Grace herself that dies be it something that's tied to there curse or not then it would have made the game be just that little bit more clearer as while it is still fairly easy to understand the game and why the family are playing it it's the small things that do take you out of it and remind you that your just watching a film when if the film did take to explain a few things about the game a bit more better then it i something that would have helped the film out all the more better. As they do explain why the ritual has to be completed before dawn as it would mean that they would die but that's really the only thing outside why the family is cursed to play these games in the first place that truly gets explained.

This is a film that very easily could have bee so bad due to the fact that at that time Radio Silence wasn't as well known as they are now. As they had only done short films at that point in time and therefor no one would have known what they could have done with a feature length running time and yet they manages to give us something that is a really entertaining film and while yes this film could have been alot more better in other places that is something that's also true for other films and the fact that they've managed to make alot of really good films after this film and gather quite the passionate fan base because of it is something that does go to show you that horror does need new faces and voices for it to thrive. As unlike Slanted which was just a redo of The Substance this film at least tried to say something new by commenting on how the rich and powerful belittle those beneath them as the family in this film do kill there own staff and yet they just dispose of them as if they were in the way of them having fun rather then treating them like normal human beings and not playing these types of games at all with the film going further into how badly the rich do generally treat poor people as the film has a rich person see that Grace is in danger but then willing ignore her pleads for help for no good reason. Whilst this is something that would get over done today here it's done to the point where that becomes the joke as it's done to that level of extreme where as if this film was made today I feel like the joke would be lost on people and it would be therefore played straight and they would treat as something to get made about on X.

Much like Slanted was a horror comedy this films is also a horror comedy however unlike Slanted this film not only has some actually funny jokes in it but it also has a good balance of horror and comedy with neither one overshadowing the over. Infact it very well could be argued that all of the films deaths are jokes in there own right right as all of the films main villains do get killed off in these really over the top and gory ways which again is done so far to the extreme that they become cartoonish and you can't help but to laugh at them with the best example of this being the character of Emilie as the film does give her somewhat of a running joke in the film as she always kills the wrong person thinking that's Grace which is a darkly funny joke with the film being filled to the brim with jokes like and heck it could be argued that how the whole family the kids included get killed of at the end is a funny joke as after failing to kill Grace the family start to think that there curse was nothing but a lie only for them to all be killed off exploding into thin air with blood going over where. With the film being filled to the brim with other darkly funny jokes that work well because of the fact that the film gives us this perfect balance between doing something that's funny and doing something that's scary with even the final line of the film being something is funny as well and yet if the film leaned to far into either horror or comedy then the film would have risked upsetting those that love the other genre and not being as good as it could have been as the film wouldn't be able to commit to being a comedy due to it having thee heavy horror elements in it and the film wouldn't be able to be scary due to the fact that it's telling a joke every few minuets.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty five minuets and twenty two seconds. With this being pretty much the perfect running time for this film to have as the film doesn't need to have a long running time in order to tell it's story in a time that does it justice with the film having the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time as well. The film does also use it's running time wisely as the film does have a fully thought out and developed plot with the film giving us all of the plot information that we need early on in the film and then just letting the film run loose and be this fun film whilst also reminding us of the fact that the family have this very tight deadline in order to kill Grace before which was something that the makers of this films really didn't have do as this is the type of the film that would have gotten by on just being a fun film and yet as they took the tie to time to make this films plot appear more well thought out by giving the plot some backstory which yes is a small thing but it's a small thing that helps to make this films plot feel more well thought out. The same thing is also true for the films characters as all of the films characters are deeply flawed characters and while the characters don't have any flaws that they have to overcome what makes this films characters more developed then alot of other horror film characters is the fact that they all get the chance to display more then one side to there character be it Alex's love for his family or the fact that Grace is someone who knows how to defend herself all of this films characters are more developed then what they really should have been 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 gave 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. As while the film doesn't have a verity of kills as they all do boil down to one persona shooting the over it's the lead up to those kills that make them work so well and while yes it would have been nice if this film did have more of a verity of kills like for example one of the family members could have been killed with the crossbow with another being stabbed to death in this case it really doesn't matter as the kills that we do get in this film are fun kills to watch in the first place. With the best kill in the whole entire film being when all of the family gets killed of at the end as that gives us an idea of just how creative that the makers of this film could be as that kill is so over the top and is so fun to watch that it does become almost comical again with the fact that Grace says to Alex during that scene that she wants a divorce being something that is the cherry on top of the really bloody cake as it's the perfect way for a bunch of characters like this to be killed off as these villains are a bunch of over the top people and therefor having them all be killed in this over the top way is something that is oddly fitting for this film and when you take into account that the film takes a moment before unleashing the madness by having all of the characters believe that there curse is faked is something that does make that kill even better with the film having alot of other really good and fun kills in it as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this film was so much more fun then what I remember it being as the film knows exactly what it is and isn't afraid of being nothing more then a dumb fun filled horror comedy and if the second film is anywhere near as good as this film is then we are in for a good ride with that 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 his very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly 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 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.

Slanted Film Review

When The Substance came out it was all that alot of horror fans could talk about and while this reviewer missed that movie. There was denying the fact that it is a loved movie therefor when a movie with a shockingly similar premise came out you can bet that I was going to be right one that and check the film the very first chance that I got well i've seen the film and wow is it truly something and so then join me I review the film that is Mean Girls meets The Substance without the charm of both of them with the film in question being called simply just "Slanted" enjoy.

The plot of this film is Chinese-American teenager Joan Huang gets surgery to turn her skin white and change her voice in order to be popular. 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. With the films plot quite literally being a mixture of the plots of both The Substance and Mean Girls with this robbing the film of the chance to be it's own thing as no matter how good that this films plot could get at times it's always going to be compared to both of those films yet when the film does decide to do something that's unique to this film like the fact that they have surgery be this permanent thing akin to getting a tattoo for example that's when the plot gets to be interesting as then the film could have taken the chance to explore how Joan's rash decision effects not only herself but those around her. Yet the film doesn't do that as we barely get any scenes with her parents where they discuss how her choice affected them when that is something that would have been far more interesting then giving us a plot that just rips off a twenty two year old film as teenagers do be default make this dumb choices therefore it would have been interesting to see how those closest to Joan are affected by her choice with that being something that would have made the plot of the film be all that more interesting. The film itself doesn't even focused on that aspect of it's plot for all that long with it only being something that the film would occasionally cut back to with the film being more focused on letting us know if Joan will become prom queen when it should have been focusing on it's main plot alot more with the plot of this film really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging either as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Shirley Chen as Joan Huang , Mckenna Grace as Jo Hunt and Amelie Zilber as Olivia Hammond. Also starring in this film is Vivian Wu as Sofia Huang , Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Brindha , Fang Du as Roger Huang , Nicholas Myers as Nash , R. Keith Harris as Willie Singer , Kristen Cui as Young Joan , Sarah Kopkin as Greta , Callie McClincy as Cat , Elaine Hendrix as Harmony , Jonathan D. Williams as Hank , Katy Wilson as Nancy , David Alexander as The Clarksville HS Vice Principal , Eric Lang as Dexter , Elizabeth Pan as Penny , Megan Hayes as Mrs. Pine , Sandra Lee-Oian Thomas as Mrs. Valentine and Destiny Danielle as Lola.

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 about as bad as you'd expect it would be as it's clear as day that none of this films actors have any idea of what it is there doing this is despite the fact that alot of them are really good actors and have been good in other film some as recently as this past month but even good actors still need good direction and it's clear that this film writer and director Amy Wang who is making her directorial debut with this film had no idea of how to direct her actors with this resulting in them coming across as being lost and unsure of what kind of performance to give when it's director should have been there to steer there performances in the right direction. With the best actor in this film being Mckenna Grace as she essentially has to play two different roles at the same time as she is both Joan and Jo with her having to copy what the great Shirley Chen did with Joan but make it different enough when she becomes Jo that it becomes more clear that these are essentially two completely different people which is something that must have been pretty hard to do and yet she does pull it off really 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 film 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 s something that really does help to hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Character wise this film doesn't fair all that much better either as to put it bluntly there's nothing to these characters. As none of the films characters have anything about them that makes them interesting with them all not even feeling like characters that you'd expect to see in the first draft of a script as even those types of characters still have promise rather these are the characters that you think up before putting pen to paper. With all of the films characters being blank slates that the audience can then imagine is them which is something that would be fin if any of the films characters are even the slightest bit likable however none of them have any redeeming qualities as they all do things that make them unlikable characters and yet none of them display anything that would make them likable the same thing is even true for the films main character Joan who spends a good portion of the early part of the wanting to be popular but having absolutely zero personality and and even after she gets the procedure she then spends the rest of the film acting like the typical popular high school b*tch with her snapping at anyone who will put up with her this is something that wouldn't be a bad thing where it not for the fact that the film already has a character that fills in that role in Olivia who is a social media star and apparently has a TV show yet she can also go to school full time with none of those things being the slightest bit doable. With it therefore making it pointless to make Joan be the high school b*tch as not only did Mean Girls do that idea better they knew to make the main character likable before she turns into the villain where as here none of that happens therefore we can't feel anything for Joan because of the fact that the makers of this film haven't given us a reason to care about her character in the first place.

As was mentioned earlier on in this review film is basically just a redo of The Substance only it's now sprinkled in with elements of Mean Girls. Which makes it pointless as if you wanted to watch a film that's like he Substance then you could actually watch The Substance and not this lazy knock off and if you wanted to watch Mean Girls then you could actually watch the 2004 original Mean Girls as both of those films are better then this film as both of those films know to be good films first and everything else second and yet with this film it's clear as day that while the makers of this film were inspired by those films which is fair enough as while I can make no comment about The Substance I can say the original Mean Girls is a really good film it's clear as day that Amy Wang who wrote and directed this film had no idea about what it was that made both of those films work in the first place and therefore she just did what she thought made them work without actually bothering to watch either or both of those films in the first place as on paper a film like this one could have worked but it needed a writer and director who understood what it was that made the other two films work so well to make them work together in this film as then we could have gotten something that was truly special. Yet for one reason or another the makers of this film instead chose to do everything in half measures with this being something that does result in everything in this film feeling underbaked and like it was something that you'd expect a first draft to look like whereas if the makers of this film rewrote and reworked the script a few times to make this film as good as it could have been then we could have gotten something truly special.

Even tho this film has only just come out it's fair to say that this film is going to be massive flop for Bleecker Street and Fox Entertainment Studios. As this film is currently in NINETEENTH place at the box office and hasn't even made a million dollars baring in mind that this film came about four or five days ago and has some star power in it's actors with the film falling way behind the re-release of Kiki's Delivery Service and the re-release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze as well an Elvis concert film. The film even saw a massive drop of in it's second day with the film dropping a whopping -70% in earnings on Saturday and a further -29.3% on Sunday. This something that was pretty much all but always going to happen as typically horror comedies don't usually do that well at the box office and with this film focusing more on and then dropping it's comedy aspect all together it all but meant that this film was going to be a flop which is a shame as this is a film that if it was in the right hands could have been really good as the film does have a solid enough idea and good enough actors actors to pull it off an yet for one reason or another none of it came together hopefully Amy Wang will learn from this and take the lessons that she's hopefully learned on this film and apply them to her next film as this film is well directed i'm not going to deny that but the mish mash of tones doesn't help amongst with alot more things which due to how political that this review could come very quickly if there mentioned will not be getting covered in this review as even tho no one is going to see this film this review is something will always remain politics free.

There are maybe at a stretch two genuinely good things in this film the first of which is the make up effects by an unknown effects company. With the make up making Mckenna Grace's face look like it's sliding of her face in really gruesome ways which was something that was nice to see and even the film does put alot more focus on being a comedy that it does being a horror film when it does focus on being a good horror film that's when we get to see the potential of just how good that this film could have been due to the fact that it does feel like that this film was originally meant to be a horror at first but then was changed to be more of a horror comedy. Which isn't a bad thing as films like Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark and Shawn Of The Dead have proven that the two can be mixed together really well however there needs to be a fine balance between the two and when your horror film relies so much on tension you can't then have the characters make a joke as all that does is then break the tension thus forcing you to start over again. The make up in this film is something that does work really well with the films horror aspect as it does show us the audience just what the price is of getting this surgery done whilst also showing Jo that she will always be the one thing that she's trying to hide from being that being a Chinese-American with the films dropping make up leading to a really good scare at the end of the film which is something that will be discussed in this review but even the films good make up can't make up for how bad the rest of the film is as this is a film that does struggle with knowing what it is that it wants to be.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty eight minuets and ten seconds. Which again to be fair to this film isn't a bad running time for this film to have as the film very easily could have done really well with that running time yet due to the fact that this film is a painfully slow burner it does mean that this film should have been a little bit longer as the film does have more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time yet due to the fact that the film does take it's time in getting going by the time it does get going and it gets to the stuff that we actually want to see the film is almost over. The film also doesn't use it's running time all that wisely due to the fact that the film doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot with this being due to the fact that the film is not only more interested in being a bad knock off of better films then it in being a good film in it's own right and yet if the film did take the time to give us a more well thought out plot then the film could have been really good with the same thing also effecting the films lack of character development as all of this films characters are te exact same when they end the film as they were when we started the film with the only one to somewhat grow as a character being Joan and even then it's debatable on if she grows as a character and if the film was a little bit longer even if its just by five or ten minuets and then that's screen time that would have been used in either giving this horror film some more actual horror or by giving both it plot and characters the much needed development that they need as you really can't afford to be a slow burner when you film is this short 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 t actually talk about the actual horror 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 horror that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this film having more of focus on being a comedy then it does in being a horror film which wouldn't be a bad thing where it not for the fact that the film drops its comedy aspect near the end of the film by which point it's far to late for the film to even try to build up tension as the film would have failed at being a horror film due to the fact that there's nothing all that scary in the film. With the best and only scary scene in the whole entire film being when Jo rips at her face peeling of huge chunks of her skin with her bleeding in some places just to reveal one of her old Asian eyes which is a good scene as it does show us just how much of mistake that Joan has made and how far that she's willing to go to correct it the issue is however is that not only is that the only scary scene in the whole entire film but it also happens right at the end of the film when it would have been all the more better if we got to see some of Jo's face literally falling of her during other scenes in the film as that would have given us some idea that something is not going right with the surgery and that Joan has done something that she will regret if it's not corrected and yet as this is a slow burner film that wants to be more of comedy then a horror film that does mean that we end up with a horror film that only really has really one creepy scene in it albeit one that's done really well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it doesn't really need to be said but this film is pretty bad and is one that already is and should be avoided as while it is nice to have new voices in the world of horror those voices still need to be saying something good , new and original and sadly that's not what this 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 a 4.5 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 ell 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.

Dolly Film Review

Right now Shudder seems to be the go to place for good original films as they do release films like In A Violent Nature and Dark Match to name but a few. With them now releasing another new film that whilst it does have a very familiar slasher setting that being the woods it does tell a unique story with unique characters and heck it could even be argued that the films villain is unique as there hasn't a villain quite like the one in the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the film that deserves more love at the box office with the film in question being called simply just "Dolly" enjoy.

The plot of this film is a boyfriend and girlfriend go out in the woods to do some camping where the boyfriend has plans to propose only for the couple to find themselves in the fight for their lives against someone wearing a baby doll costume and mask. 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 one that is oddly refreshing to see due to the fact that it's not as cut and dry as it might appear to be on the surface as the plot of this film is one that whilst yes it does have the familiar setting with the film being set in the woods the story on the whole is one that's quite new with this being something that the film should be applauded for as unlike the Scream sequels it's not telling the same story over and over again it's giving us something new with the plot being one that does work really well due to the fact that the film does tell in chapters with each of it's seven chapter titles corresponding to something that happens in that chapter and while yes the films plot isn't as strong as it could have been with the plot feeling more like an afterthought to the films films this is also something that could be said for alot of eighties slasher films as well as the film does have a plot that would feel right at home in an eighties slasher film with the only thing that makes it stand out being the fact that the film do a solid enough job in telling it's plot whilst also keeping us the audience fully engaged with it's plot as well with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III and John Dies At The End star Fabianne Therese as Macy , Russ Tiller as Billy , Kate Cobb as Rachel and Michalina Scorzelli as Aunt Sadie. Also starring in this film is Mallrats and The Wolf Of Wall Street star Ethan Suplee as Tobe , Pro Wrestler Max The Impaler as Dolly and The Dukes Of Hazzard and American Pie star Seann William Scott as Chase.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this film not rally having that many known actors with the only somewhat known actor being Stifler from the the American Pie films therefor no one would have had any clue of what to expect from this film from an acting point of view as it really could have gone either and thankfully we did manage to get some really good acting in this film which was something that would take alot of people back as by all rights this films acting should have been at best OK and while yes granted it doesn't raise to anything above average it's also not as bad as it really could have been either with the best actor in the whole film not being any of the films slightly known actors but oddly enough being Max The Impaler as Dolly as while everyone else has there face to get across emotion and is able to speak lines of dialog Max doesn't have that as the character of Dolly where's this big fiberglass head designed to look like the head of a baby doll and doesn't talk at all therefor they only have body language to get across just what it is there character is thinking or feeling and that's in and to be fair they do get across just what it is that there character is thinking and feeling all by there actions and there body language alone with the acting that's in this film really being helped by the fact that the script for this film is just so good that all this films actors have to do it 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 the films characters aren't the best characters out there they are quite easily alot more better then the characters that we got in The Bride. As this films characters are actually pretty well done characters for the amount of time that alot of them have on screen as for no other reason other then scheduling alot of this films more well known actors don't get to appear in this film all that often and yet even with that working against them the makers of this film still managed to have some really well done characters with Dolly herself being a good example of this as while she's basically every other eighties slasher villain only now she's in a doll mask there is more of a warmer side to her as she doesn't just attack people at random she only kills people that are mean to her with her only injuring alot of people something which a character in the film does push her to that limit and while she will kill you if you get in her way she's the type of character where if you stay out of her way she'll stay out of your way. With another decent character being Macy as she is someone who isn't really afraid of commitment as she does want to marry Chas what she doesn't want is to be left raising a kid which Chas has and yet over the course of the film we do see other parts of her character like we see how resilient that she can be and how quick she can think on her feet and whole she doesn't always make the smartest choices when she's captured by Dolly that is something that could be said for any horror character and isn't something that exclusive to her character with the thing that is exclusive to her character being that she is far to trusting of a person as she trusts that someone want harm her when she helps them out when she's trying to escape Dolly when everything about the person says that he's untrustworthy and low and behold he turns on her the very first chance that he gets. Which is a good example of how just how well done that alot of this films characters are when compared to The Bride as in that film that characters are at best cardboard cutouts of characters and here they feel like actual people.

Due to how this film visually looks it gave of very strong Grindhouse vibes as much loke in those films the picture did break alot of the time. The film did also have feel like it was very cheaply made like lot of grindhouse style films were and while this is something that would work against a more modern big studio film for a smaller independent film it's something that does work in the films favor as it helps to make the film feel more real almost as if we the audience are there watching the characters going through these terrible events and while the film doesn't push things as far as Grindhouse itself did interms of it's content it pushed them far enough to make you feel uneasy about what might happen next and to be fair that's all it had to do as with this being a straight up horror film that's designed to look cheap and nasty it didn't need to give you any big expensive looking set piece or give that alot of make up effects it just needed to create tension and let it sit with you and that is something that alot of these smaller independent horror films do when there done right as they know that they can't compete with films like Weapons or Sinners for example but what they can do is give an expirence that those films can't give you due to the fact that there being paid for a big studio. With a studio like Shudder taking the reigns and due to that we do het alot of unique films and expirences as again much like with Grindhouse or other low budget films your not going to forget this film in a hurray as it is a film that is that unique and is that fresh with it feeling like a true successor to the slasher films of eighties in both spirit and tone.

If your struggling to choose which film to go and see in the theaters either this film or The Bride then choose this film. As not only are you getting a well crafted original story with characters that you actually like but this is a smaller independent film and yet it's only made a little under five hundred thousand dollars right now and yet it deserves to make so much more then that while yes this film does have alot of flaws in it like the fact that the film is somehow split up into seven chapters when it really didn't need to be and the fact that the film doesn't really have alot of kills in it this is a film that is still a really enjoyable film due to the fact that it's made by people that quite clearly have a love for the genre and whereas with The Bride you get the impression that the people making that movie have never seen a horror film in their life or if they have it was once and that was it and while yes this films plot isn't the strongest one out there and while yes the films characters could need a little bit of work as could the story it doesn't matter as this film feels like a thrown back to the slasher films of the eighties and those didn't have the best plots in them and they very rarely if ever had the best characters in them and yet they were still fun to watch as they knew to be a horror film first and everything else second and that's what this film was proud of being and it's also something that makes this film perfect for Shudder as this is a film that wouldn't get made by a major studio as they don't like to make the typical horror film let alone one that's a throw back movie of sorts and while yes this film could be better in alot of respects it's also one that's really so unique in it's approach to telling it's story that you can't help but fall in love with it.

Where this film does somewhat fail is in it's twist as while the twist is something that won't be given away here in this film review. It is something that would have been more better if they didn't sign post it to you that this person was untrustworthy to begin with as the second that Macy unlocks this person that Dolly has chained up in the room next to he starts acting all creepy and saying these creepy and heck he even starts saying them before he's unlocked which does give it away that he's not a trust worthy person with this being where Macy starts to act dumb as the character until that point had been pretty smart and while she wasn't the smartest tool in the shed she did know when to use her brain and when to act like a goofball and yet here near the end of the film she just trusts this person who is acting like a creep all for no one good reason. Heck she even gets out of the car that she's in near the end of the film just to pick her engagement ring this is despite the fact that the killer is mere few feet away from her which is just stupid as Dolly very easily could have come back to life for that one last scare with this being made even more dumb when you take into account that she technically never accepted the proposal in the first place therefor she would have no reason to grab the ring or even obsess over at let alone risk her life to go and get it back with this being something that could have been fixed with a rewrite of the films script as then it could have been explained why she wanted to get the ring back and why she risked her life to get it back and while it doesn't hurt the film with her acting as dumb as she does in the film it is something that does feel at odds with her character.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and sixteen minuets and fifty three seconds. Which to be fair to this film is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you would expect a film like this one to have as this film is meant to be a throwback to the slasher films of the eighties and those didn't typically have that long of a running time with this film having more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place and yet even with this mind this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely. As the film doesn't really take the time to fully develop it's plot with this being due to the fact that the film quite literally stops it's plot every fifteen minuets to start a new chapter and while that is something that would work for a film like The Hateful Eight that film also had a much more longer running time to it and therefor could afford to do it where as here in this film they don't have that privilege therefor the every single scene from when the characters first enter the woods needed to be about advancing the plot of the film with this kind of effecting the films lack of character development as the film doesn't really give the characters that they needed to be more well developed characters with the only character who gets some sort of character development being Dolly herself when she goes to being the villain to being somewhat of a hero when she kills the person who was going to hurt Macy just because he was taunting with going right back to being the villain when she realizes that Macy doesn't want to be her living her doll with the rest of characters not really getting any kind of character development whatsoever with this being something that could have been addressed if the film was even just ten minuets longer 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 tat the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. While this films kills are pretty decent the film doesn't really have enough kills in the film with there really only being about two kills in the whole film and that's really it with the rest of the film being spent with Dolly torturing Macy which is fine but for a slasher film you really do want to have more kills in it as that is why you come to a slasher film in the first place the best comparison would be going to a Scream film and not having the mystery of who Ghostface is in it as it would just feel weird. With the best kill in the whole entire film being when Dolly breaks Chase's jaw with her shovel which might not seem like much but then he spends the rest of the crawling to get to Macy and when he does finally reach her at the end of the film Dolly sees him and after him begging her to kill him and she finally rips the rest of his jaw off killing him which is just such a cool kill as it's one that we very rarely if every get to see in films with it being something that does work in this film as it's something that does make you wonder just how it was that they managed to pull that effect of. With the only thing that lets the kill down being the fact that we don't get to see Chase and Macy together all that much in the film and that's really it with the rest of the films kills being just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it doesn't really need saying at this point but I really did like this film as while Scream 7 is easily the better of the two films this film has something that that film was never going to have on it's side that being the fact that this is an original film that is well made 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 his very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 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 use 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.