Soulm8te Film Review

Films set in a shared universe are a very popular thing these days however alot of them all have the same thing in common there universes are still going strong. The same thing cannot be said for the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today as this i a film that is set in a universe that is pretty much dead after it's second film as that film did so poorly at the box office that it forced Universal to shelf this film film for a while before deciding to release it as a straight to DVD and Digital only movie and so then join me as I review the film is for now the final film in the M3GAN universe with the film in question being called simply just "Soulm8te" enjoy.

The plot of this film is a software engineer named David gets a protype robot meant to simulate love but when he removes it's safe guards to make it feel more human the robot ends up becoming more and more obsessed with David. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot thats 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 being a more adult version of the plot of M3GAN even down to sharing very similar plot beats to it but where as in that film the plot felt fresh and new here in this film it felt tired and worn out. As the film really doesn't do anything new or even remotely interesting with its plot as the films plot does go to all of the places that you think that a plot like this would go to and while this is fine for something like Betty's Revenge or Popeye Returns as in those types of films you do walk into them expecting the plot to be predictable whereas here with this film given the fact that it was made by a major film studio and was slated to get a theatrical release back in 2025 it does make you wonder why the makers of this film thought that it was a good idea to have the plot be this predictable in the first place as while the M3GAN 2.0 had a pretty out there plot you never knew where it was going to go next but here with this plot you do know where its going and while yes the plot is still a solid plot it doesn't mean that it had to be this level of predictable with the plot of this film also not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Evil Dead Rise star and The Mummy 2026 star Lily Sullivan as Sara , Oppenheimer and Alien: Earth star David Rysdahl as David Wasson and The Boys and Gen V star Claudia Doumit as Aubrey Mansouri. Also starring in this film is Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale and Daredevil: Born Again star Arty Froushan as Ben Hoffman , Elijah Cook as Terrence , Emma Ramos as Alma Flores and Mara Huf as Lizzie.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting thats 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. To be frank if you go into this film expecting the acting to be really good then more fool you to be honesty as the M3GAN films aren't really known for having great acting in them as everyone in those films seems to know full well that there in a bad movie and just have fun with it and it does kind of look like it's the same here as alot of this films actors do look like that they know there in a bad film but the thing is they don't turn in enjoyable performances rather they play everything straight with this making the films performances feel boring and wooden. With the best actor in the film being Lily Sullivan as Sara as she does make for a really good robot with this being a case where having wooden acting would work well in the films favor and while i'm not saying that she's wooden in the film far from it but given how seriously the rest of the films actors are forced to treat things in the film it does help with her acting as Sara is a robot and therefor being more robotic and wooden with the acting makes sense and while she's not as good as both Amie Donald and Jenna Davis were as M3GAN she is still enjoyable in her own right but you do get the feeling that the makers of this film were holding her back as we known from she is in Evil Dead Rise that when she lets loose as an actor she can be really good but here she's not allowed to be that good with this being something that does shine through in her performance. With the acting that's in this very film not really being helped by the fact that the 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 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.

Doing the CGI for this film is the legenda and the greats that are currently over at Cinesite , Folks and Millennium FX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI thats 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 pretty good. It would be a challenge to say that this films CGI was impressive as there was very little of it in the film outside of a shot where you see the back of a robots head whilst still seeing there human looking face but to be fair to this film what little CGI that we go get in this film does for the most part look really good. Whilst there are alot of good effect in the film with any film there are some bad looking effects but the bad ones don't really last that long and are only screen for a few seconds at the most with it feeling like this film is only CGI to improve things on the robot characters which is something that does make sense as it was something that they did on both of the M3GAN movies as well and therefor it does make sense for them to do it here, with it appearing as if the film uses more hidden CGI then it does outright using computer effects which is something that does make sense as these movies have never really been effects heavy movies. This film does mainly use CGI for things like extending the sets and that's really it and that is a great way to use CGI as there just building upon what was there on the day of filming and not creating something that they could have done for real inside of a computer.

Incase you aren't aware this film is set in the same world as the M3GAN movies and was supposed to come out either last year or early this year as the film was fully completed in late 2024. However most likely due to M3GAN 2.0 not getting as many good reviews as the first film and not doing all that well at the box office it does appear as if Universal Pictures got cold feet as this film was supposed to get a theatrical release and yet due M3GAN 2.0 not doing as well as the first film did Universal pulled the film from it's release schedule and left it's future in doubt that was until a few weeks ago when they dropped the trailer on there direct to DVD Youtube channel telling us that the film will be getting released after all just not theatrically. However it still feels like that Universal is doing this film dirty as alot of digital releases happen on a Tuesday or during the working week that way people have all week to buy or download the film and the film can do well in terms of shifting DVDs / Blu-Rays and downloads yet Universal decided to drop this film on a Saturday when no one is going to be around to download or buy the film as alot of them will be spending time with there families r going on holiday just bottom line not really being around to get the film when it first comes out this is something that does pretty much signify the death of the M3GAN shared universe as 2.0 proved that it doesn't have that much staying power at the the box office and due to Universal releasing this film on an odd day when releasing it during the working week would help the film this film won't do that well with it feeling like that the film only got released for contractual reasons and not because Universal believed that they had a good product on there hands.

If we're being honest there this film does feel like a poorer version of Obsession as both films do share a kind of similar plot to them. As both films feature a character that becomes obsessed with someone else to the point where they are willing to kill people who they think is getting in there way with the only difference being the fact that the in Obsession the obsessed person is a human where as here its a robot and that's literally it and given the fact that Obsession is the most profitable horror film of the year thus far it does make sense for Universal to release this film to try and leech off of that and with the film being an R rated film it does mean that the film can go to those more adult places that the other films in this universe can't go to due to the fact that there PG-13. This is a hard to film to fully judge as usually with a direct to DVD  film there are certain things that you can excuse due to them not having a bug budget and yet here due to the fact that it was never made to be a direct to digital movie it does mean that the film had a big budget to afford to do bigger and better things which makes it all the main painful when they just do the bare minimum as alot of this film is very predictable as it does follow alot of the same beats laid out by Obsession and while it would be wrong to call this film a knock off of that movie due to the fact that this film was shot first it was however released second, to give this film credit it does kind of earn its R rating as we do get to see some level of blood in this film grated it's not as much as other R rated horror films but it still there with the film having alot of adult things in it therefor even tho it is set in the world of M3GAN it is one that young fans of those two movies should stay away from.

Sara as a villain to be frank is actually made out to be quite likable as we only see her attack people who are bad towards her at first. With this being something that does make us want to cheer her on like for example we see her almost getting robbed by some guy who was rude to her before therefor when she does kill him we don't feel sorry for him we feel glad for her as she was put into a situation where that was her only way out whereas if the guy show attacked was a nice guy but she attacked him anyway then it would make her out to be this nasty villain and that's what she needs to be as she had just seen various adverts and TV shows about how to act with her mind becoming more and more warped by the things that she was seeing therefor she would go outside with that knowledge and attack someone believing that she was doing the right thing and yet by not having her do that the makers of this film make her out to be the good guy in that situation. However she dos come off alot more better as a character then David as David comes across as being a blank slate as there's nothing to his character outside of the fact that he's lost someone close to him and that's it whereas with Sara not having anything to her character is oddly fitting for her character as she is a robot after all and is just learning how the world works when David takes apart her programming to make her more human with David quite frankly being the worst character in the film as there rea;;y isn't anything to him that makes the him feel unique and while the same thing could also be said for Sara it hurts with David his backstory is tragic enough that it right away makes you want to like hm as a character and yet the second you start to poke wholes in his character that's when he starts to fall apart.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty nine minuets and six seconds. Which is both a solid running time for the film to have and also not long enough for this film as this is a film that really could have been about ten minuets longer as the film does spend alot of time just in setting up it's plot and therefor when Sara does start going on a killing spree the film is almost over and yet at the same time this is also the perfect running time for the film to have as the films plot is not only so thin in the first place that to stretch it out to near two hours would be a bit much but also it would mean having alot more scenes that are just pure filler with the film having the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of time in the first place. With the film not even using the running time that it does gave all that wisely as the makers of this film don't really take the time to fully develop the films plot with this being something that they really should have done as while the plot for the M3GAN films aren't the best there are still things added to them that do make them appear to be more thought out whereas here it does appear as if the film was made up as they went along as all of the things that they could've have added to the films plot that they set up in the first act of the film don't effect the films plot at all and are forgotten about with the makers of this films putting more thought and effort into making sure that we know that this is an adult film then they did in giving us plot development. Heck even the films characters aren't that well developed as the film doesn't take the time to give them any kind of development with is fine for Sara as she is afterall a robot but all of the films human characters there really did need to be something literally anything that made them feel more well developed with the makers of this films putting more thought and effort into giving David a tragic backstory then they did into giving us well developed character 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 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 tought / felt hat the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. The films kills are to be frank the best part of the film as thats where we get to see this films premise of being this erotic thriller with robots get put to good use with even one of the films more memorable kills being something hat does as full advantage as they could have done will still being a mainstream Hollywood R rated movie as we do get to see a really creative kill and given what happens in that scene alot of blood. However that is not the best kill in the film as that honor does go to the death of Ben as Sara hacks into his robotic car to get it to keep the hood or bonnet open with her only telling her to close when his hands are under it thus slamming them into them and yet it doesn't stop there as she then gets to the car to drive into him at full speed into a parking lot garage door and then with his hands still trapped reverse at full speed thus ripping of his arms with him dieing not long after, which is just such a fun and creative kill that does take full advantage of the fact that Sara is a robot and therefor she would be able to hack into things to get them to do as she wants which is just such a cool and creative idea and it is one that this film does keep on coming back and when it does that that' that's when we end up with something truly special like this kill was with the rest of the films kills being just as good as this one one was as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it is hard to say if this film is better then M3GAN 2.0 was as that film was made for and got a theatrical release whereas this film whilst it was made to get released theatrically ended up with a direct to DVD release but the one thing that is certain is that the M3GAN franchise is good as well dead in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally thought in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies an 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.

Munster, Go Home! Film Review

When people think of scary but family friendly horror families they usually only think of The Addams Family and for good reason. Yet not alot of them no that around the same time as that show was starting another family of monsters was just starting out The Munsters and while they aren't as well known today as they were back in the day with even there latest film being that god awful Rob Zombie movie it doesn't change the fact that they did have one theatrically released movie starring alot of the TV actors and it's that very film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the film that sees The Munsters appear in color with the film in question being called simply just "Munster, Go Home!" enjoy.

The plot of this film Herman finds himself becoming the lord of a town in England and along with his entire family have to stop a counterfeiting ring taking place in there new home. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good.  While this films plot is a cheesy plot given the fact that this film was meant to serve as the final episode of the show and the show itself was pretty cheesy in all of the best ways possible it does make sense that this film would have a plot that is just as cheesy. Heck one could even make the point that it's the fact that this films plot is as cheesy as it is that it makes it alot of fun to watch as by all rights this films plot shouldn't have worked and while it could be argued that it still doesn't work it's the fact that it does have this cheesy almost sitcom like plot to it that does make fun and campy and heck even the fact that the film reverts back to the status quo of the show at the end is something that does hit home the fact that this is a sitcom style plot but here's the thing while having a plot like this works well for the show for the movie you do want something a little more grander and while having the family go to a different country does work in this regard the plot it self does need to reflect this by being more of a plot that could only work in a movie as this films plot as good as it is feels like an extended episode of the show 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 Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster , Yvonne De Carlo as Lily Munster and Al Lewis as Grandpa Munster. Also starring in this film is Butch Patrick as Eddie Munster , Debbie Watson as Marilyn Munster , Terry-Thomas as Freddie Munster , Hermione Gingold as Lady Effigie Munster , Robert Pine as Roger Moresby , John Carradine as Cruikshank , Bernard Fox as Squire Lester Moresby , Richard Dawson as Joey , Jeanne Arnold as Grace Munster , Maria Lennard as Millie Cruikshank , Cliff Norton as Herbert , Diana Chesney as Mrs. Moresby , Arthur Malet as Alfie and Ben Wright as Hennesy.

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. To be frank if your expecting this film to have OSCAR worthy acting in it then more fool you as whilst this films acting is indeed really good it's also the kind of good acting that you would expect to find in a sitcom which for this film does oddly work as that's where the characters started life with of course the four retuning actors having a huge advantage in this regard as they would all know how best to portray there respective characters and while the new actors do there best in this film it doesn't hold a candle to what the TV actors do in this film. With the best actor in this film being Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster which might be a cliche thing to say but it is true as he really does nail the character of Herman down perfectly with him giving us a performance that does suit the character and while the doesn't go to child like with his performance like alot of the other actors do that play this character he takes it far enough that it almost feels like a performance that's worthy of being on the big screen with him brining this likable energy to the role that really does come through in his performance. 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.

Whilst the characters from the TV show are written how they usually are in the show it's the newer characters that aren't that well written. As the films new characters are written very much as being these over the top characters and while again this is something that would work in an episode of the show for the movie tho you do expect them to be better written as there really isn't all that much to this films new characters outside of the film just straight up telling us which characters we should like and which others we should hate and that's really it and even that doesn't work as the film doesn't give us a reason to care for for the characters that are meant to like and we feel indifferent about the ones that we are meant to hate. With the main Munster family being the better written of the films characters and even that is more die to the fact that the writers of this film had the expirence of writing for these characters in the show and even then some characters from the show do get the short end of the stick as both Lily and Eddie get nothing to do in the plot of the film with Herman and Grandpa being involved in the main plot and Marilyn being involved in a subplot and while one of the shows characters was always bound to get the short end of the stick when it comes to doing things in the film it feels weird that the makers of this film allowed it to happen to two characters that the fans of the show do love with the pair of them not really getting alot of time to show of just why there character was as beloved as they were in the show all for seemingly no reason as it's a very common thing with all of the live action Munsters movies, yet both Herman and Grandpa are given a chance to show of just why they were liked as characters in the show with them oddly enough getting alot the more better scenes in the film with Marilyn just kind of being there which does make as she was never really given alot to do in the show either.

Speaking of the show believe it or not this is the last time that the actors playing Eddie , Herman , Lily and Grandpa would all appear in a Munsters project together. With the only missing actor from the show being Pat Priest as she for some unknown reason was replaced by Debbie Watson with the only reason being that I can think of for her casting being the fact that she had a contract with Universal Pictures and that's really it and even then that doesn't make her casting right as Pat Priest was the more well known actor as Marilyn as even tho she took over the role from Beverly Owen she was the longest serving person to play that role and was more well known to the fans of the show as that character therefor it does seem weird that for the movie and for quite literally alot of the live action Munsters movies they would just recast the character over and over again. With the real only reason to go and see this film is to see the characters in color as up until this point in the time the characters had only been seen in black and whit and to be frank this film would have worked all the more better if it was a black and white movie as that would make it visually look more like the show but in all fairness to the film it was fun to see these characters in color and while they do get a few things wrong like for example making Herman's green skin now appear to be blue and making things perhaps a bit to colorful it was still fun to see these characters in color as the only time there had been coloured version of The Munsters was in one of the failed pilots for the original show which again like this movie had Herman's skin coloured blue, heck if this film was done as a black and white film then it could have been done more as a parody of the Hammer horror films of the time think Carry On Screaming but American and you'll get the idea.

Much like with all of The Munsters films in which she appears in Marilyn is given the same plot line in this film where she falls in love with someone who is tied to the main plot in some very loose way. While this is something that does get repeated alot in all of the other live action Munsters movies that feature Marilyn as a character this was the first film to really do that with her when it comes to the movies therefor this film does get a little bit of slack as they did have to give us a love interest somewhere in the film for one of the characters and it can't be any of the adults and Eddie is to young therefor by default it had to be Marilyn but this was also something that they did alot of the time on the show as well and it's something that does do more harm to her character then it does good. As while giving her that kind of a plot is fine for one maybe two episodes of the show for the film you do want to give her something different as your not going to have countless other episodes in which to fall back on should this plot line have failed and this is something that the nineties made for TV Munsters films did try to do as while they did give her a love interest it was someone that actively tried to help her family out, yet here in this film this plot line does feel played out as the makers of the film do nothing with it when they really could have taken the time to create something truly romantic with those scenes and yet they don't do it which does make those scenes with Marilyn feel forced as the character plays no part in the films main plot outside of having a love interest that Herman has to race against in the films third act and that's and that's not really something that justifies her being given a love interest as you very easily could have said that Roger was was her pen pal or something like that and it still would have worked as nothing about the films plot would be affected by it heck even it's own subplot wouldn't be affected by it.

To be fair to this film it's villains even tho they are badly done as characters are still really entertaining to watch in the film. As all the four them want is for Freddie to named Lord Munster which does involve the having to find ways to rid of Herman and yet every time they do Freddie throws a tantrum which is always funny to see as it does add to the over top almost cartoon like nature of this villains and yet alot of them aren't really given much screen time with alot of it going to Freddie and his mother with his sister Grace being more of an afterthought as while she does year appear in the film quite alot and even takes part in one of the families schemes to scare Herman and his family away outside of that one scene she doesn't really do anything to help to further there end goal rather she just fades away into the background while her mother and brother take the centre stage. With this not really being helped by the fact that the film does try to have a mystery over who this person telling hem how to do these things is as they only know them by The Griffin and that's it this is something that could have worked if the makers of this film had given us clues as to who The Griffin was in the first place therefor allowing for us the audience to work it out for ourselfs which does make the big reveal of it being the barmaid all the more of a let down as it literally comes out of nowhere with it making no sense be it from a character point of view or the point of the view of the movie and heck it would have given us the audience a reason to rewatch the film if there was clues sprinkled all throughout the film like for example one of the characters mentions her knowing a little to much about cars for a barmaid that would have made for a great clue to have in the film and yet we aren't given it rather we are given nothing interms of who The Griffin could be as we don't even get any sort of Red Herrings for whom the character could be either.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty six minuets and nineteen seconds. Which again 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 gave and the film does need that long of a running time to tell it's story as while you could very easily tell this films plot in a two part episode of the show if you cut out all of the padded scene in the film this is still a plot that does work well on the big screen with the films running time reflecting as while alot of sitcom to movie adaptations would feel like sketches from a sketch comedy show just loosely edited together this film does feel like exactly that a film and while yes the film doe have obvious padding with the sequence with the characters on the boat last for far two long there's no denying the fact that this running time is solid for this film with the film even having enough plot there t cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet even so this film really doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the film doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot with the film just not being bothered to add things to the plot that help to make the plot feel more developed with this adding to the feeling that this is just a sitcom style plot only now instead of being twenty two minuets it's at a feature length running time with the makers of this film being more focused on giving us over the top villains then they were in giving us a well developed plot. This is something that does also effect the films character development as while normally you could make the case for all of the tv show Munster family getting there character development in the show and therefor don't need it in the movie given the fact that the characters started out live on a sitcom that resets itself every week that was never going to happen therefor if they did stand a chance of getting character development it would have been in this movie and that's the one thing that both they and the films newer characters don't get with the makers of this film being more focused on making sure that we knew that this was the first time that we seeing these characters in color then they were in giving them character development 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 comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy thats actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally tought / felt tat the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. The fact that we do have some good comedy in this film does make alot of sense as the films characters especially the villains are portrayed as being these over the top cartoons that it does make it easy for the makers of the film to craft jokes for them as they can go over the top with the jokes and that it would work and its something that does work with the TV show characters as well as they whilst there not as over the top as the villains are they are still wacky enough that they do still work. With the films best joke not really being one joke as its a running joke where alot of the people that first see the TV show Munsters are afraid of them and run of in over the top and dramatic ways which is something that whilst it is over played in the film and is a bit cheesy it does add to the films almost sitcom like nature as that is the kind of joke thar they do on an episode of the show and it's one that does still work in this film as of course these people would run of in fear as to them The Munsters are monsters and whilst The Addams Family would lean in to the fact that they are this creepy family the thing that makes this joke work not only in the show but also in this film is the fact that The Munsters think that they are normal looking people with the rest of the films jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it doesn't need saying but its going to be said anyway but this film is easily better then the 2022 The Munsters film as this film does ta the very least make an attempt to not only recapture the spirit of the the original show but also adapt for a the feature length format whilst also doin it's own thing as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very revie and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally sued in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk , Tenor , 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.

Pinocchio: Unstrung Film SPOILER FILLED Film Review

Whilst alot of indie horror film studios are jumping on the band wagon of making cheaply made horror films out of beloved kids cartoon characters the one studio that started it all was Jagged Edge Productions. Well there've just released the latest entry in there Twisted Childhood Universe with this even boasting a couple of legendary horror actors in it and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the film that is quite easily better then Bambi: The Reckoning with the film in film in question being called simply just "Pinocchio: Unstrung" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a grandfather makes his grandson a puppet to keep him company the puppets naive nature leads to him getting the urge to kill something which the boy and his group of friends must stop before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally tought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. To be frank this films plot really does have no right being as good as it isas by all rights this films plot should have been a very paint by numbers slasher plot where you can predict all of the plot points coming a mile away. Yet with this film you really do have no idea of where the plot is going with this being something that does make you want to keep on watching the film and heck speaking purely from a plot point of view this might be the best Twisted Childhood Universe film as alot of them do have these predictable plots to them and yet here with this film you no idea of where the plot is taking you or where it's going to go next and while yes the films plot could have been alot more stronger in some aspects it's alot alot more better then the plots of films like for example Popeye Returns of Betty's Revenge as with this plot there is alot effort put into making good and out into making you care about the plot in the first place granted it's not as good as say the plot of Scream VI but for the type of horror film that this is it is a good plot in it's own way 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 Jude-Evan Lloyd as the voice of Pinocchio and Robert Englund as the voice of the Cricket. Also starring in this film is Batman Begins star Richard Brake as Geppetto , Cameron Bell as James , Karolina Knight , Amanda , Mya Brown as Georgia , Jack Art Gray as Dudley , Luca Marandola as Logan , Toni Olabanji as Trey , Elliott Spilling as Zach , William Turnbull as Daniel and Jessica Balmer as Mia.

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 tought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. The fact that this films acting is about as it is is something that you do expect not only from the Twisted Childhood Universe films but also from other films like this as well with the main difference here being the fact that this films writer , producer and director Rhys Frake-Waterfield is actually trying to get a good performance out of his actors and while some of the kid actors are really bad as it usually the case with kid actors the acting from the adults especially Richard Brake and Robert Englund is top notch with of them showing of why they are in there own rights horror acting legends. However neither of them are the films best actor as the best actor in this film is Cameron Bell as James as even tho he is a kid actor in this film he is just so good in this film and heck even tho this is only his first ever feature film the kid does have a really great future ahead of him in acting should this be a path that he chooses to go down further, with him being shockingly good in this film as his performance really does anchor the entire film with Cameron brining his own likable charm to the character which is something that really does shine through in his performance in this film. 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. 

This films characters are where the film does somewhat start to dip in quality as alot of them just aren't that good in the first place. As alot of the side characters are very note characters who are just there to be killed of and really nothing more then that with the best example of this being the character of Dudley who adds quite literally nothing to the films plot and it just there to tell us how amazing Pinocchio as a toy puppet is and that's not enough to to fully justify him being a character in the film as alot of his lines could have been given to any one else in the film and it would have made just as much sense and the character of Mia is just there to be the token girl character as outside of the fact that she's the only one of the there group of friends who can drive she adds nothing to the film. However tho where the films characters do pick is both in the side characters and with Pinocchio's side characters as we all know The Cricket from all of the various adaptations of the book with him here not really acting as Pinocchio's conscience as here he is one of two characters that are actively trying to get Pinocchio t commit these crimes in the first film with the other being a wood creature, Pinocchio himself was about as well handled as he always is with the film not really doing any thing all that knew with him as a character which is fair enough as there is only so much that you could do with him as a character. The films main two human character Geppetto and James where actually quite good with Geppetto being a grandfather that does genuinely love his grandson James so much so that he does create Pinocchio just to keep James company and James is a sweet and innocent kid who is just lovable.

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If you've been following these films from the very beginning then you will spot some easter eggs and some cameos from other characters like for example we either have Peter DeSouza-Feighoney as Michael Darling or one of this films producers Scott Chambers as Christopher Robin. As it could be either character that we see in a hospital scene talking to James but either way it was fun to see either character as it does hit home the point that these films are meant to be set in the same fictional world with the cameo being done tastefully as they do appear in a scene where there character would naturally appear and aren't just forced into the film as a way for us fans of these films to get mildly excited like they very easily could have been. Heck even the cover to one of the songs that a character is listening to is one of the posters for the first Blood And Honey film with Winnie The Pooh being plastered front and centre which is a nice little tip of the hat to where these films began as opposed to where they are now and again much like with the cameos the film doesn't really linger on it all that much as it's just a quick shot and then the film moves on but it is still nice to see the makers of this film not only giving us glimpses as to where the characters are now but are also tipping there hat to where they began these films and the very rough state that they were in and yet due to the fact that they were more then willing to listen to the fans and fix the issues that people had with the first film in the second film it does mean that there is alot more effort put into these film as opposed to any of the other film where the main villain is a classic kids character, while it the film would work without these cameos and easter eggs as they don't really add anything to the plot of the film they were still fun things to put in and The Twisted Childhood Universe is now at that point where they have build up enough good will where they can afford to put in things like this and not have it be distracting from the main film.

While there are alot of things that this film does indeed get right it sadly does get alot of things wrong like for example the fact that they do a surprise reveal with Geppetto actually being the main villain of the film which does feel a little bit cliche. With the other thing being the fact that the film does go over board with making sure to give James this overly dramatic and depressing back story where his parents are killed and then one of his best friends are killed none of which was needed as they add nothing to the film other then being a way to explain why he is is staying with Geppetto in the first first place which even then you could change to him staying with because of the fact that he lives closer to James's school or his parents are away on holiday either one would have made sense. Speaking of James's school the makers of the film can't decide on if he goes to a private boarding school or not as the film does go out of it's way to say that Geppetto is insanely rich therefor it would make sense that he would send his apparently only grandchild to a boarding school with the school itself even looking like a boarding school and yet for some odd reason the school allows the students to go home every day which defeats the entire purpose of it being a boarding school in the first place and whilst yes this is a only a very minor issue in the grand scheme of things it is something that did drive me crazy watching the film as it really does look a boarding school and while the plot of the film isn't effected by this it is something that the makers of this film could have addressed with a line of dialog from one of the characters with them saying that it used to be a boarding school but is now just a regular school that right there would addressed this minor issue head on.

Let's talk about the twist with Geppetto as while it does make sense that the film would have him be a surprise villain. Given everything that we've seen with the character it really doesn't add up as everything that we've seen with him does make him out to be this kind old man that is genuinely trying to do what's best for his grandson with the two of them even having some sweet and fun scenes together and yet we are still supposed to buy into the fact that at the end of the film he is this cold blooded killer that right there just doesn't add up it would have worked if we got to see hints of him turning evil all throughout the film like maybe he does start to mistreat first Pinocchio and then James which granted wouldn't have been much but it would have been something. To be frank here that whole part with Geppetto being evil does feel like more of an excuse to have Richard Brake play another villain which is fine as if you've got someone who is known for playing horror villain then why not cast him to play another one but it is still something that could have been done alot more better with the only thing of good coming from it being the fact that we get to see Pinocchio be the one to kill him as while it would have made sense from an emotional stand point for it to be James to be the one to kill let's be real here the only person that we would want to see Geppetto is Pinocchio as he is meant to be the main villain of the film in the first place, with the fact that Geppetto does end up dying also kind of being tragic in it's own right as now James doesn't have any family left whatsoever which is also true for Pinocchio and while the film of course doesn't address this given the fact that Pinocchio is meant to be appearing in Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble it is something that could be getting addressed in that film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and sixteen minuets and twenty seven seconds. This is quite a short running time for one of these films to have and this is something that is a bit of an issue in it's own right as it does mean that things like the films plot can't be fully set up as by the time that the plot of the film is fully set up then the film over half way done whereas if this film was about fifteen minuets longer then it would have had more then enough time to set up the films plot and it's characters as while the films world won't for obvious reason need setting up its characters and there relationships to each other with the film having more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. With the film not even using its running time all that wisely as due to it having a shorter running time it really can't take the time to fully develop it's already thin plot as it does have to set up first and it can't do that when t's taking it's time to get properly started and when a film is this short every single scene needs to be about advancing the plot of the film and it can't do that when it has to spend so much screen time in first setting up the films plot with the makers of this film being more focused on showing of the Pinocchio puppet then they are in giving us a well developed plot. This is also something that does affect the films character development as well as the films characters can't have the time that they desperately needed in th first place to be well thought as they are now fighting for time with the films plot and yet if this film was just fifteen minuets longer both the plot and the characters would be able to get the development that they both so desperately needed with the makers of this film being more focused of making sure that we cared about James then they are in giving ant of its characters some character development but I really will admi that this film really does have some really good pacing to it ho.

So now then as this is a slasher film tat really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us un this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the films kills actually being one of the best things about the film in the first place as while this film didn't have a big budget it as spent wisely as you can tell that alot of it went into making the Pinocchio puppet and to the films gore effects as the gore effects in this film are what really sell you on the films kills that they all look good and that was something that they really didn't need to do as the idea of having Pinocchio killing people and taking bit of them is a creepy enough idea that the film could have coasted on just having lame kills. With the best kill in the whole film being the scene where Pinocchio innocently entertaining the schools teachers gym with him just standing there doing nothing when all of the teachers get killed of in really brutal ways with each teachers death being the cause of another death with it all coming coming together when about two maybe three weights crush the face and skull in of a teacher, that whole entire scene is clearly where alot of the films effects budget went as every death in that scene looked like it hurt and while there deaths aren't caused by Pinocchio as he is literally just standing there watching them it is still fun to picture him there in the first place with the rest of the films kills being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst the last two films in this universe haven't been the best this film is a return to form as it is a really good film that much like with the other films in this series does show that the makers of this film are willing to listen to the fans and give them exactly what they want which in this case does result in a really good 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 ttings 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 6,5 out of 10 from me.

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

Popeye Returns Film Review

Just when you thought that the days of very cheaply made horror films that happen to have a cartoon character as the villain were gone we get another one. With this oddly enough being a sequel to the film Popeye's Revenge and what's more then that is the fact that there are further TWO sequels to this film already in post production and are coming out some time this year and so then join me as I review the film is just a big load of nothing with the film in question being called simply just "Popeye Returns" enjoy.

The plot of this film is eight years after the events of the of the first film Popeye starts targeting the one lone survivor from the first film whilst also being hunted down himself by a group of government army men who want to keep him locked up. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad. Look to be real this films plot is just so bad as even tho it is a very extremely thin plot alot of the time it does feel like that the film doesn't have a plot to begin with with it feeling like the film is just a bunch of scenes loosely tied together. Popeye's Revenge for all of it's faults at the very least had a plot yes granted it was a bad plot but it was still a plot with a beginning , a middle and an end here we barely get a beginning before the film ends which makes it more baffling as to why the makers of this film decided to stretch this thin plot over THREE films when doing it in just one film would have worked all the more better, there is nothing redeemable about this films plot as it is a very lazy plot that the makers of this film should feel ashamed about and while yes granted these B movie horror films never have te best of plots to them in the first place but they still will nine out of ten have a plot to begin with and when this film can't even do that right then it right away is a huge red flag as now we the audience have no reason to get invested in the films plot as the makers of the film themselves aren't even bothering to make it good in the first place 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 Ashley Bedford as Dave , Jodie Bennet as Milly , Fitim DeStena as Dylan and Harriet Hope as Jen. Also starring in this film is Jack Hyde as Mendoza , Celine Mandy Kosch as Mindy , Olivia Lennox as Alice , Bannister Doll Heist star Christopher Morley as O'Brien , Skullhunter star Steven Murphy as Popeye , Ever After star Lara Sas as Cassie , Liz Stef as June and Jenna Wilson as Alina.

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 bad. Again you do expect these types of films to have bad acting in them as the main reason to watch these films is never the acting it's always what they are going to be with the cartoon character that they are turning into the main villain and that's that which is fair enough but there still needs to be some amount of effort put into the acting to make it worth while as while yes alot of this films actors are indeed trying to turn in a good performance they are let down by poor directing from this films editor and director William Stead with the only actor who really can't take any blame as it is her first proper acting job being Celine Mandy Kosch. With the best actor in this film being Steven Murphy as Popeye as he is the only actor reprising his role from Popeye's Revenge therefor he does have a good grip on how best to perform as this character which is a skill that does put to great use in this film with him having a certain charm about him does make you wonder what it is that this character can really do which is something that really does shine through in his final performance. With the acting that's in this very film really being helped 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 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.

The films characters much like pretty much everything in this film are really nothing to write home about. As all of this films character are for lack of a better word forgettable as there is nothing about them that makes them stand out as they all feel like character tropes and not fully formed characters with this being something that does make sense as this film would have been cheaply and quickly with the other two films but there still should have been more time spent in making these characters appear to somewhat memorable as the only character who is slightly memorable is Cassie and even then it's due to the fact that she's the main final girl of the film and not due to anything she says or does in the film itself. As none of her friends are that memorable infact they all just blend into one and Alice herself due to the share nature of character can't be that memorable of a character with the only character who is memorable is rightfully the films title killer Popeye and even he doesn't get alot of screen time in this film with him feeling like a side character in his own movie and yet what little screen time the character does have in the film he does do something that's more memorable then the rest of the characters and heck it could even be argued that Popeye is the films best character as while there isn't all that much to him as a character there is still an attempt to make him a decent character whereas with any of the films other characters it felt like that they were there just so Popeye had people to kill and not because of the fact that they added anything to the films story, these characters are the kinds of characters that you would expect to see in the first draft of a script and while this film might not have had the budget to do a re-write it really did need one just to fix up how poorly handled alot of this films characters are even when not being compared to Popeye.

As was mentioned at the very start of this review this film is a sequel to the film Popeye's Revenge however you don't have to see that film as the film spends a good few minuets early on in the film playing alot of the third act final battle from that film. This was just such a stupid thing to do as all it does is make it more obvious that the makers of this film didn't really have much of a plot and are just using those scenes not to catch up with the plot as the girl who is meant to be a survivor from those attacks wasn't even in the film in the first place and there those scenes just feel like they were added to the film so that the makers of this film could truly market this film as a sequel as there is nothing from that film that appears in this film outside of having the same actor playing Popeye and one reference to the previous film at the start of the film and that's it. For all of the hate that Silent Night Deadly Night 2 gets for just being a glorified clip show of the first film they still made a logical attempt to connect the two films together where as here there is none of that as it does feel like that the makers of this film had no idea on what to do for a sequel and therefor they just came up with the laziest thing over one night and called it a day, now I admittedly haven't seen Popeye's Revenge since it first came out therefor my memory on the ending is a little hazy but it there might have been away to do a direct sequel to that film and still have it play a bigger part in the bigger plot that they are trying to tell just by having the survivors of the previous film be the runs that are helping these new characters out as given the fact that the apparent lone survivor is meant to be related to the main character of the previous film it does make sense that she would come back to help her out in this film whilst also hinting that there are bigger things at play by having Popeye not only trying to kill these character but also working on Spinach that would help him stronger and more insane that right there connects the two films together and sets up a bigger plot better then what this film actually does.

Let's take a second to talk about the editing because of you thought that William Stead made for a great editor then you'd be wrong. As this film is edited so poorly with us barely being able to make out anything that happens as there are alot of cuts going on in any given scene with no scene being given the room that it needs to breath and for us the audience to truly soak in what's happening which does make alot of this film a very confusing mess to follow and heck even the ending to Popeye's Revenge is edited in a way that it does make it look like one of the characters in this film was the main character from the previous film when a simple search of Google tells you differently the only thing that could have made the editing in this film be all the more better was if William Stead just took his time in certain scenes and not rush or cut them to the high heavens as all this does is leave your audience confused as to what's actually happening in the film. Something that was also mentioned at the start of this review is the fact that this film has two other sequels coming out and yeah you really can tell as the film doesn't even properly finish telling it's own story is just fades to black before a "To Be Continued" card pops up with this film quite literally being nothing more then set up for the other two films which wouldn't be a bad thing if this film was actually good in the first place but it's not therefor people are less likely to watch films 3 and 4 in this Popeye's Revenge franchise as the first two films have made it clear as day that they are bad films and yet if the makers of this film put in alot of thought and effort into making this film not only good but also stand on it's own without the need for the other 2 films then people what be excited to watch the other two films as they would have seen just how good that the makers of this film can be.

While the previous film at the very least made an attempt to connect it self to the Popeye lore by also giving us a more Harley Quinn-esque version of Olive Oyl. Here we only get one reference to Bluto at the start of the film this might be because he could be playing a bigger role in one of the sequels with his name being shown to us here as a way to set up that that name could becoming back later on down the line which is fair enough but there still needs to be more of a tie to the Popeye lore then just having Popeye in it like maybe they they could have Whimpy show up granted this isn't much but it would be better then nothing at all but in all fairness the idea of having Bluto play a bigger role in one of the sequels does make sense given the fact that in the original comics and cartoons he and Popeye are meant to be enemies. This film is just one big helping of nothing as that's exactly what happens for alot of the film nothing happens to the advance the plot of the film , the characters are poorly done and the editing is terrible granted its not as bad as it was in Taken 3 but it is still pretty bad and while we do need to give these films more of a leeway when it comes to how they are made as these films are usually made cheaply and quickly but we still do need to call them out when they do something that's just flat out bad like for example the film does build up a mystery over who this guy is that appears at the start of the movie but then disappears for so long that you actually forget that he's in the movie with film making us think that he's either tied to one of the characters in the previous film due to how certain scene are edited or the fact he is Bluto only for it to be revealed that he's jus a guy which makes that entire subplot feel pointless as the makers of this film very easily could have said who he was right away instead of having him appear once and then forgotten about for at the very least forty minuets to only then reveal that he's not that important of a character.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and eight minuets and twelve seconds. Which for any film let alone one of these low budget horror films is such a short amount of running tike for the film to have and given the fact that the film does send more time on setting up things for the third and fourth films then it does in actually telling it's own story altho in saying this maybe the film being this short is a blessing in the disguise as it does mean that we get to be out of this film in alot less time but this film still should a longer running time just to flesh out alot of its own ideas and alot of it's characters and not just have them pushed to the side to set up the other two films with this film no even having enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. With the film not even using what little running time that it already has very wisely as the film doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot as the plot of the film as very very wafer thin at best with it feeling more like the plot to someones bad fanfiction only now it's the plot of a film and what's worse is the fact that if this film did deed dedicate more time to its plot and fully developed it then it could have worked but its made clear as day that the makers of this film cared about giving us pointless flash back scenes that they did about giving us a fully developed plot. This is something that does also effect the films character development as due to the fact that the films opening flashback to the previous film eats up a good three to five minuets and the fac that we get a pointless flashback to the eighties which eats up five minuets on its own then this films character are not only fighting for screen time due to there being far to many characters for a film this long to have in the first place but it does also mean that none of them can get any sort of character development with the makers of this film making it perfectly clear that they are more interested in setting up the sequels instead of giving us well thought out and developed character 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 really bad. It's in the films kill where we really do get to see just how small that this films budget really was as they all commit that single biggest sin that any slasher film can commit when it comes to there kills and that's the fact that alot of this films kills happen OFF SCREEN we will see Popeye raise a weapon to kill people with but then the film cuts away just as he is about to land the finishing blow which is something that would be fine for one or two kills but no all of this films kills are like. Heck this happens to so often that the film can't even have a best kill because we never get to see what it is that kills them off in the first place and yet even alot of the really bad horror films still let us see what it is that kills of there victims granted this might be the case because of the fact that the other two films were being made at the same time but if your going to be making a slasher film then you need to show us the kills that is slasher film making 101 with the closest thing to a kill that we actually see being in the opening scene where a girl gets her head trampled by Popeye which is a cool kill but even that one we don't get to see all that much of and therefor we really aren't scared for the rest of the film with the rest of the films kills being just as bad as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it really is telling when the best live action filmed version of Popeye the one from 1980 never got a sequel and yet one of the many Popeye horror films not only got a bad sequel but is also getting two other films with this film not really does a good job of getting you excited of the third 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 0 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 boy 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 , 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.