Mickey's Slayhouse Film Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clayface Film SPOILER FILLED Film Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SPOILERS NED HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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

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

Crystal Lake SPOILER FILED TV Series Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My SPOILER FILLED First Impressions Of Crystal Lake

Believe it or not it's been over seventeen years since we last got a theatrically released Friday The 13th movie due to the rights to the franchise being more complicated then the timeline for the Halloween movies. Which makes the show that i'm going to be taking not only today but also tomorrow all the more surprising as we finally have something new in the Friday The 13th series and it's this very TV show that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the show that that has Velma from the 2002 Scooby-Doo movie in a leading role with the show in question being called simply just "Crystal Lake" enjoy.

The plot of these first four episodes is nine months after her son Jason drowns at Camp Crystal Lake former camp cook Pamela Voorhees still believes that her son is alive and will go to any length to prove it. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With the idea of exploring a part of the franchises timeline that hasn't been explored in the films s a really good idea as it not only allows for fan favorite characters to return but it does also allow for new fans to get invested with the characters at the same time. Heck the plot for these first four episodes is also quite interesting as we do get to see a woman get pushed so far to the edge and seeing just how far that Pam is willing to go to just to prove her point is an interesting things to be added to the shows plot as it would have been very easy for this show to have her start of the show firmly insane and then get worse after the death of Jason but the fact that the show starts out with her being this genuinely kind and caring mother only to then start going insane is an interesting aspect to add to the plot of these episodes as now we the audience get to the chance to see her slowly unravel and become this more sick and twisted person and while yes there are certain aspects of the plot that aren't that well are that could have been alot more better there is still a chance that those aspects could be better in the latter half of the show with the plot of these episodes also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in these episodes is Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees , William Catlett as Levon Brooks and Gwendolyn Sundstrom as Grace. Also starring in these episodes is Cameron Scoggins as Dorf , Devin Kessler as Briana Brooks , Nick Cordileone as Ralph , Daniel Stewart Sherman as Enos , Bernadette Quigley as Trudy , Joy Suprano as Rita , Danielle Kotch as Claudette , Phoenix Parnevik as Barry , Manon Gage as Harmony , Brian J. Carter as John Christy , Nancy Nagrant as Kay Christy , Dan Thompson as Steve Christy  , Jason Fuchs as Nate , William Hill as Gus , Drew Scheid as Shutterbug , Philip Themio Stoddard as Gabe , Lark White as Stella Blue , Nate Kelderman as Plato , Albert DiCesare as Space Ghost , April Consalo as Rhiannon , Kevin Interdonato as Jimmy Demilo and Callum Vinson as Young Jason Voorhees.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. To put it bluntly the acting that we have here in these four episodes is just so much more better then what it really should have been with this being something that is quite shocking as while we have one big named star in the show the rest of the shows actors aren't that big of name with even all of the supporting characters in these episodes being played by unknown actors with this being something that does make the fact that even they turn in some good performance be all the more shocking as by all rights they should have been really bad and yet they end up being really good. With the best actor in these episodes very easily being Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees as my god is she so good in these four episodes alone with her really putting across the fact that Pam is struggling to survive without her beloved son and nine times our of ten she does all of this without any dialog she just uses her eyes or she just gives you a look and within that look you do get the feeling of torment that this character is going through every single day of the week heck her acting is just so good that it wouldn't be surprising if the makers of this show put her name forward to be nominated for an award for this show as she is just so good. With the acting that's in these very episodes really being helped by the fact that these episodes scripts are just so good that all these 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 these very episodes.

The characters in these four episodes are pretty well done as while there are some characters that could have been alot more better there are alot more that are handled really well. It does of course go without saying that Pam is a really well written character as due to the fact that she only appeared at the end of both the first and second movies the films really couldn't do anything with her character and therefor the show had and took the chance to fully flesh her out by showing us that she is this single mother who is struggling to make the rent and raise a kid on her own and yet she also does very deeply love and care for Jason with there scene together at the start of episode 1 being a very touching and heartwarming scene. However tho there are some characters that are handled pretty badly as even the characters of Barry and Claudette as even tho Claudette didn't get a line of dialog in the opening scene of the first film and Barry got half of a sentence you did still get the impression that they were just normal kids and nothing more then that whereas here in these four episodes they make Barry out to be bully and Claudette for alot of those first four episodes does come across as meaning well but almost cruel in her own way and this just doesn't feel true to how they came across as being in the first film whereas with a character like Rita or even Levon this wouldn't be that big of an issue as they were created for this show and heck both of those characters are done better then two of the shows many legacy characters altho to be fair they do something interesting with Crazy Ralph that dies make you view his characters in the early Friday The 13th films in a new light.

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The film does go out of it's way to give Pam not only a life outside after Jason by showing her dating Levon the town sheriff but also in showing her openly befriend Grace. A kid that Jason was presumably best friends with ad to be honest seeing her scenes with both of those characters is genuinely heartwarming as that's when we get to see who Pam was prior to Jason dieing as we see her act as mother figure to Grace and while there is a really creepy and well done scene with getting turned on while she's with Levon and she sees some fire trucks going to the place where she's just killed someone seeing there relationship grow and seeing them become a rock for each other is something that was sweet to see even tho it could very well be seen as Pam getting closer to him so that she'll know right away if he finds out about any of the crimes that she's done. This is something that does make episode four be in it's own way kind of tragic as Grace even tho she doesn't find out that Pam killed her mom she still tells to Pam to get away from her with there bond beginning to fracture and it is something that does make you wonder if Grace is going to make it out of the series alive or not as while she was friends with Jason she was never close friends with Pam and with Pam going more and more insane by the episode it does mean that anyone who was a foe to her when this all happened is now prime to be killed of and there is a very good chance that the insane version of Pam might very well view Grace as an enemy and not as friend, whereas with Levon it is something that could go either way as while Pam is indeed in love with him he is also trying to work out who did the crimes that she herself committed in the first place.

Peacock really did miss a trick here as if they had waited just one month then they could have released the show on an actual Friday the 13th. Yet they instead to chose to release it in the middle of October which OK fair enough October does have halloween in it and this is a horror show afterall but you can watch horror on literally any day of the week therefor wouldn't it have been more fun to see this show drop on an actual friday the 13th that is something that does make alot more sense as people would already be on edge due to how unlucky many people perceive that date to be an therefor to have a new installment of the franchise that's build around that date it something that does make more sense then releasing it in October. This is a show that might have benefitted from releasing it's episodes weekly and not all at once as unless your Netflix your not going to gain subscribers from dropping all of your episodes at once and given the fact that this show is built around this one character going insane it would made alot more sense to drop the episodes weekly as then you will get more people coming back to your service on a hopefully full time basis and you'll also get alot more people talking about your show on social media for a longer look at something like the Scrubs revival which was yes does also air on ABC but the episodes also drop on Hulu and it would have been very easy for Disney to put the rest of the episodes on Hulu before they air on TV and yet didn't do that and because of that more people are going to come to Hulu to watch the show and it is something that could have worked for this show as this show is good enough to that and it has a big horror franchise attached to it therefor it's going to get alot of people watching the first episode in the first place. 

While these episodes do get alot of things right like for example making Crazy Ralph a gun obsessed war vet with PTSD. Sadly one of the things that it does get wrong is the fact that alot of the characters in these episodes just aren't that likable heck the only truly likable characters in these episode are Grace , Pam and Levon and that's it as the rest of the townsfolk spend alot of time making fun of Jason behind Pam's back and when they clearly see that she's in distress in episode one not one of them tries to help her rather they all gather around her telling her things that all serve to make it worse granted the whole point of this show is to make you route for Pam and that does mean giving her some unlikable characters to interact with but alot of the characters that are meant to be her friends just aren't that likable as characters. As all this does is make us want Pam to kill them whereas if the makers of this show had still gave them negative aspects but also showed us reasons as to why they are like that like they do with Grace and her mom in episode three then it would go along way into making the characters alot more likeable and if Pam does indeed kill them later on in the show which in all fairness she very well might do then it would make those deaths be all the more tragic as then we would be seeing more of just how far she has fallen as then she'd be willing to kill genuinely good hearted people but as they are these are characters that you can't wait to die and while we know that both Enos and Ralph won't die due to the fact heat there in the first film Rita for example very well could die as could Trudy and Steve's parents for example.

Now then these episode have / had an exact grand total running of exactly fifty six minuets and six seconds with the episodes ranging from as high as fifty six minuets in episode one to as low as forty minuets and fifty five seconds in episode three. Which to be fair is fairly solid thing to do as it does show the episodes plot is dictating the running time of the episode and not the other way around and after looking at the running times for the other four episodes it does appear as if that will also be the case for those episodes as well which is a great thing to see happening as as much as it pains us to see a good show have short running times the plot should always dictate how long an episode is and not the other way around with these episodes having more then enough plot there to fully cover there respective running times. Yet even s alot of the episodes don't really use there respective running times all that wisely as alot of them don't fully develop there plots which is find for episode one as that is setting up the plot and it therefor does get a little bit slack there but episode two has a very underdeveloped plot when it really shouldn't have done due to the fact that the main plot was already set up but to be fair tho episodes three and four are where the series really does get cooking plot wise with the makers of this show putting alot more thought and effort into the references to the films then they did into giving us well thought out and developed plots. This is something that is also true for the shows characters which in all fairness is fair enough as you could argue that alot of the character will get the development later on in the show and it could well be argued that Pam not getting character development does allow for her decent into madness to be all the more tragic but none of the films other characters get any kind of character development either with the makers of this show being more focused on making us feel sorry for Jason then they did in giving the characters some character development but I really will admit tat these epsodes really do have some really good pacing to them tho. 

So now the as this is a slasher show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills tat are actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the kills that are actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes were in all honesty really good. With the episodes making us of alot of practical effects for it's gore and it is something that really does stand out out as it would have been very cost effective for the makers of this show to just do there kills inside of a computer and call it a day but the fact that they went the extra mile to create these very good looking practical effects for these brutal kills is something that does standout in all if the right ways. With the best kill in these four episodes being the death of Grace's mom in episode three as after she starts bad mouthing Pam at the diner where she works Pam picks up a hammer like weapon smacks her across the face breaking her face in the process with Grace's mom lashing out rightfully so with Pam simply sidestepping her and sending her into the chip frier which is just such a brutal kill that des have some really impressive looking gore effects in it which might have been enhanced with CGI as we get to see the inside of Grace's moms face and we do get to see her missing several teeth and while it's not the goriest kill in these four episodes as the double kill in episode one is alot more gorier in terms of blood interms of story importance this one does have that kill beat as while the kill in episode one is apart on Levon's story the kill in episode 3 is a major part of Grace's story with the rest of the episodes kills being just as as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall these four episodes were alot of fun to watch and they do take certain characters that we know and love from the films and do something interesting with them and heck these four episodes do go along way in proving that there is still life in this franchise yet in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well of the bad things that are in these very episodes in this post and while this is only my first impressions of this already released show i'll be watching the final four episodes tomorrow with me then doing the full series review of the show as a whole.

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