Monday, 3 February 2025

Piglet Film Review



For some strange reason it's now become the in thing in Hollywood to turn classic childhood characters into slasher horror film villains/ With the film that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today being the latest entry in what is very quickly getting to be a worn out and tired trend and so then join me as I review the film that turns everyone's favorite Winnie The Pooh side kick character into a slasher villain with the film in question being called simply just "Piglet" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when eight friends arrive at a camp sight to celebrate one of there groups twenty first birthday they discover something deadly is hiding in the woods and it's something that they'll have to fight for there very lives to survive. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that' 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 but at the same time tho this films plot isn't that good either as it's just the generic eighties slasher film plot with nothing new added to it to make it seem fresh or interesting and while that type of plot was good for the eighties as that was when the slasher film was at it's peak nowadays tho it just comes across as being tired and boring and that's exactly what this films plot is as you can very easily predict where the film is going and who isn't going to make it out of the film alive and because of that alot more work really should have been it into making this films plot not only different but also actually good if not passable at best and not have the film to rely on the fact that they have a kids character as the films main villain which is obviously where all of the attention of the film went really as none of it went into creating a really decent plot with the plot of the film not being really rather entertaining nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least,


Starring in this film is Alexander Butler as Piglet , Valery Danko as Judith and Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey 2 star Alina Desmond as Kate. Also starring in this film is Rory Forder as Bret , Jamie Langlands as Gage , Eva Ray as Riley , Shayli Reagan as Susie , Tais Sholvie as Courtney , Lauren Staerck as Alex , Alina Varakuta as Dianne , Jeremy Vinogradov as Mr. Hogarth and Tyler Winchcombe as Officer Burke.

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 inn this very film was in all honesty about as good as you'd think it would be from a film like is. In that yeah it's decent enough acting but at the same time it's also not that good either which is something that does make alot of sense as the main draw for these types of films isn't going to be who is starring in it but rather which childhood character is being turned into a slasher villain and with that in mind this films acting is about as decent as it really could have been and while there are some decent performances in this film with even Alexander Butler turning in a decent performance as the titular character and both Valery Danko as Judith and Alina Desmond as Kate also being pretty good in this movie they are the only bright spots tho when it comes to films quality of acting as it's clear as day that this films director Andrea M. Catinella really doesn't know how to get a performance out of his actors with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by this films script is the script for this film is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.


This film is bland and generic in every which way possible as everything that's in this film is not only been done better in other slasher movies but is also in alot of other slasher movies as well. Even down to the fact that there's a character that straight up trys to warn the kids at the start of the movie not to go to the camp sight that there going to and sure enough they ignore him with this film hitting all of the slasher tropes in the exact same way that you think that they would be and while yes films like Scream 1996 also did that they at least where poking fun at those tropes whilst also being a slasher film in it's own right here because of the fact that this film is meant to be a straight forward slasher film they don't make fun of those tropes or try to do something literally anything to make them feel fresh and new again heck even low budget slasher films like Jersey Shore Massacre knew to avoid those tropes because of the fact that people were sick to death of seeing them and so they at least tried to do something new and different whereas this film just sticks to what worked in the past but doesn't bother to include why they worked so well in the past as this film has no tension and it doesn't make the guy warning them at the start of this movie creepy or funny which in turn makes the kids more idiotic for ignoring him as he does come across as being a genuinely nice person where as they just come across as being self centered and dull and boring to watch in this film,


If your wondering if this film version of Piglet is meant to be the same one from the Blood And Honey films then the answer is no. This is meant to be a new version of the character which will make it even more confusing when you take into account that there have only been two technically three if you include this one horror films that have Piglet is a villain and even then the first two films are the Blood And Honey films and so people are going to be walking into this one thinking that it's connected to the other films as there not going to know any better and while the two characters do look different enough so that we the audience can tell them apart that's quite literally the only thing that's really different about them as they both don't talk which they never explain in this film and they both have pig masks which look a little similar but that's really it and all of this makes you wonder why the makers of this film chose do a horror film based off of a character that they already knew was starring in two other horror films as while yes lawfully nobody was stopping them from doing it surely then common sense would have taken other and have them think better of it but nope clearly not and heck even the character of Piglet in this film acts nothing like his cartoon or book counterpart which is something that they explained away in Blood And Honey but here they really don't with the only major thing about Piglet in this film is the fact that he's a human who likes to wear a pig mask and people called him Piglet because of it and that's really it.

Whilst this film does have some somewhat better characters then Mouse Of Horrors did that's not that really high of a bar to reach and even then the characters in this film aren't that good either. With alot of them just being the stock characters that The Final Girls made fun of and that's really it but to give this film some sort of credit it's characters are at least a bit more memorable and a bit more developed then the characters in Mouse Of Horrors like the fact that one of the characters has a sister that gets killed of by Piglet and so then her whole deal during the films third act is to try and get revenge on him and while that might not seem like much it's alot better then what it really had any right to be because of it and yet even then alot of this films characters just aren't that good as all of them have nothing distinctive about them that makes you remember who they are just from looking them where as with films Like Blood And Honey 2 and Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare you can pick out a picture of both the good guys and villains and people will know who they are because there better thought out characters where as with alot of these other cartoon characters based slasher films the emphasis seems to be on the idea of a certain cartoon character being a slasher villain and not in creating characters that people want to see more of with it being made worse when you take into account that pretty much almost none of his films are in anyway shape or form likable which does make it harder for us the audience to actually form a connection with them and want to see them succeed and make it out of the film alive and well.


Everything about this film is just flat out bland with the film self getting a very few amount of things actually right. With one of those being the fact that the film does make the most of it's really small budget by not having any cheesy CGI effects in it and trying to hide the Piglet mask as much as they can do when they don't have to show it both of which are things that Mouse Of Horrors failed to do as that film had terrible CGI effects in it and they just straight up reused the Winnie The Pooh mask from Blood And Honey where as here because of the fact that in alot of the shots you can't really see Piglet's mask all that well it does make it hard to see if it's a bad looking mask or not and even when you can see it quite clearly it's only shown for a few seconds which does make it look like that the makers of this knew that the mask that they had for the character wasn't that good but given that in the context of the film it is meant to be just a mask and so nobody would complain about the mask looking all that bad in the first place as it's meant to look bad but at the same time tho having one or decent things in the film really doesn't take away from the fact that the film on the whole is just flat out bad and it is something that makes you wonder why outside of the fact that Piglet is now a copyright free character and the fact that the Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey films made some small amount of money at the box office that the makers of this film even chose to make this film in the first place let alone go with a script that is a best laughably bad.

Now then this film has / had an exact grant total running time of exactly one hour and twenty two minuets and thirty seven seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for all of these cartoon characters gets turned into a slasher horror film villain films and to this film credit it does have the right amount of plot there ton really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho this is film that really doesn't take full advantage of it's it's running as none of it's characters are fleshed out to the point where they seem like real people and the films plot is very underdeveloped that it just seems like a mish mash of alot of the bad Friday The 13th film plots just rolled into one as there's nothing that sets this films plot apart from the plot of quite literally any of the Friday The 13th films and that is something that could have been fixed if the film took the time to fully develop it's plot and characters instead of showing us attractive girls in bikini's in a hot tub as all that does is make it painfully obvious who's going to be killed of next and yet if the film did take the time to develop it's characters then we the audience would actually really feel something when one of them does get killed off and yet because of the fact that the makers of the film seem to think that  really all you need to make a good film is a recognizable character as the main villain none of that happens and the film really does suffer because of it but In 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 t us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As while the film does have alot of really gory kills in it what lets them down is the same thing that let down the ills in Mouse Of Horrors and that's the fact that the sound effects for them are just so bad as none of the kills in this film despite them looking very visually impressive for a small budget film don't actually sound like that they hurt with alot of the sounds in this film just sounding like the kid of sounds that you'd be able to use for free of a website somewhere which is great for the budget but it also means that none of the kills can't have the impact that they should have with this not really being helped by the fact that not alot of the sound effects during this films kills are even loud enough to be heard in the first place with these issues being things that should have been fixed when the film was in post production as part of making a good movie and a good kill is the sound effects and when there not all that impactful then it really doesn't matter how gory the kill itself because the actual kill itself will always sound weak and painless due to it's terrible sounding sound effect in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall while this film is miles better then what Mouse Of Horrors was it's still a really bad film and it does make you wonder why film makers are making these kinds of movies especially as none of them except for the Twisted Childhood Universe films have next to no actual thought put into them which is something that is also very sadly true for this film as well as this film is just a bland and generic film where the only reason to watch this film is to see how badly Piglet himself looks in it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film. really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 3 out of 10 from me.

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

Sunday, 2 February 2025

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Film Review



Sequels are a thing that Hollywood really loves to do and they really love rushing out a sequel to capitalize on the success of the first film. This film went a different route as while yes there were talks of a sequel to the original Beetlejuice in the nineties it wasn't until last year when it finally came out and when it come it took the box office by storm and proved that there people out there who want to see this kind of throw back movie and so then join me as I review the film that proved that the ghost with the most isn't quite as dead yet with the film in question being called simply just "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when her father is killed by great white shark Lydia , her mother and her daughter all return to Winter River where Lydia's daughter Astrid acceidentally opens up a portal to the afterlife and it's up Lydia to find her by teaming up with the one person who tried marry her thirty plus years earlier Beetlejuice. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually feature / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as it was a plot that perfectly captured the zanyiness of the original film whilst also advancing the characters in ways that felt true to there original selfs and yet at the same time tho this film is filled to the brim with so many subplots that it does start become overstuffed with all of the films characters getting subplots when they really don't need one with the film being alot more better when it focuses on the main plot of the film as that's the plot that is not only better done but it's also the one that's the more fun to watch as well and while the subplots on there own aren't bad it's just that there not really needed in this film as it does make the film seem overstuffed and overcrowded with it being hard to remember what plotline we the audience are meant to be following in any given scene with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this film is Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice , Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz and Catherine O'Hara as Delia Deetz. Also starring in this film is Jenna Ortega as Astrid Deetz , Justin Theroux as Rory , Willem Dafoe as Wolf Jackson , Arthur Conti as Jeremy Frazier , Burn Gorman as Father Damien , Santiago Cabrera as Richard , Nick Kellington as Bob , Amy Nuttall as Jane Butterfield Jr. , Paul Warren as Tom , Mark Heenehan as Charles Deetz , Charlie Hopkinson The Voice Of as Charles Deetz , Danny DeVito as A Janitor and Monica Bellucci as Delores LaFerve.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With all of the returning actors from the first film really just slipping right back into playing there respective characters so wonderfully and so quickly that it felt like that they had just finished the first movie and then went right on to working on this movie as the performances from those returning actors are just so seamless and whilst the acting from the newer actors is indeed really good with the likes of Jenna Ortega , Willem Dafoe and Monica Bellucci among others turning in some really solid performances but due to the fact that the returning characters are mostly played by there original actor the acting from the newer actors whilst it is indeed still really good in it's own right just really doesn't hold a candle to the acting from the original film actors as there acting really is just so good 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 really 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 Framestore , One Of Us , BUF , Red Visual Effects and Goldcrest. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with the film also making great use of stop motion animation as well as CGI animation with both of them being blended together really well with the stop motion being true for the style of the effects in the original where all of the effects where done with stop motion whilst also incorporating elements of CGI which works really for this film as it does show the best of both effects and while the stop motion effects will always look better as they were created for real and were actually on a set where as the CGI effects were created in a computer and will be dated within a five years the films CGI effects are still really good in there own right and are mostly only used when they have to use CGI and not when the makers of the film want to use it which is a great way to use CGI as then your being forced to be creative and to find creative solutions as just because you can use CGI doesn't mean that you should use it either as all that does is make your film look like a CGI mess where as due to the lack of CGI in this film that's not even close to being the case.


One of the things that alot of people pointed out and hated when this film was first released was the fact that the Delores character is utterly pointless in the film. Which she is as she barely does anything to effect the plot of the film apart from show up in a few scenes to suck the souls out of people and that's it and that is such a waste of actor Monica Bellucci as she can do more if you give her more stuff to do and if you give an interesting character to play and yet here with this film we get a character that could be left out of the film and absolutely nothing will be missed from the plot of the film which is a shame because on paper this character could be interesting if she was used more and if we the audience got to spend more time with her character and heck she even could have incorporated into the main plot of the film as that would have been something and yet here this film does nothing that's interesting with her character or even that fun for that matter as apart from her debut scene where we see her stitch herself together all the while the song Tragedy by The Bee Gee's plays which is a fun scene but it's the only fun scene that the character is in and it's not enough to make the character fun even more so when the film is filled to the brim with fun characters that you want to get to know more and that you want to spend more time with where as here Delores is a character that's just there and because of that she feels like an afterthought and undercooked character that was better left not being in the film at all as she's just that pointless of a character in this film.

If you noticed at the start of this review I mentioned that this was a throwback film and that's because it is as it's a throwback to kids movies from the eighties. As this film does have quite alot of stuff init that wouldn't be seen in a films today like the character of Beetlejuice being this politically incorrect character and there's a lot of violence in this movie as well and there's some swearing all of these are things that would have been found in a PG rated kids movie in the eighties but are now hardly ever seen in films that are rated PG-13 and yet here they are in this film and just to be clear this film is rated PG-13 and yet even with all of these things in this film alot of people not only turned out to go and see it but actually liked it as well which shows that people do want these kinds of films and don't want softer ratings they want the PG rating to actually mean something again and not just be a glorified U rating which is what it has become and to this films credit it does take full advantage of it's rating by also giving us things that could also be added in an R rated movie as well but it's not in an over the top way it's done in a way that suits not only this film but the original film as well with all of that films characters being the exact same in this film and while yes this film does have it's fair share of problems the fact that the film does have alot of the things that were found in kids PG rated movies in the eighties in this movie can only be seen as being a step in the right direction to making sure that that PG rating is actually earn't again.


One of the key things about this film is the relationship between Lydia and Astrid as that's something that us the audience really do have to buy into to make the film work. As this film so very easily could have come across as being a half baked sequel but because of the fact that the writers of this film but alot of effort into making the relationship between Lydia and Astrid the film comes across as being alot more thought out as we see that Astrid is basically a more modern version of how Lydia was back in the eighties and that Lydia is now struggling to connect with her daughter and over the course of this film we see that they both really do care about it each other even tho they'd never really say it to each others face and yet none of that feels out of character for either of them as Lydia is the type of person who would be willing to do anything for her family something that we not only saw in the first film but also in both The Animated Series and all throughout this film as well where as Astrid is just being a dumb kid and making dumb kid choices which oddly makes her feel more alot more real and heck you really could even argue that Lydia and Delia go through the same thing in this film as well as both mothers and daughters are grieving over the loss those being the loss of Charles for Lydia and Delia and the loss of Astrid's father Richard for Lydia and Astrid and over the course of the film both mothers and daughters have to reconnect with each other something that they could only do due to the events of this film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty five minuets and three seconds. Which is a solid running time for this film to have with this film really having the right amount of plot thee to really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho this is a film that really cold have done with being a few minuets longer just so that alot of the newer characters would have a chance to leave much of an impression as with this final cut of the film the only new character to leave an impression in a positive light is Astrid and the only one to do in a negative light is Delores with all of the others just not leaving any kind of an impression on me at all as even tho there played by good actors none of them are given that much in the way of screen time and even the ones that do get some decent screen time aren't in the scenes for very long and this is something that really could have been fixed if this film was a little bit longer as then we could have gotten more fully rounded characters that can be on par with the first films returning characters and Delores would have actually been given something to do that actually impacts the plot of the film but at the same time tho alot of those could also be seen as being filler and taking away screen time for the characters that we actually want to see more of as well as no one going to see this film is going to see it because of Astrid or Delores for example there going to see it because of the original characters and that is something that this film does rather rightfully dedicate alot of it's running time towards as well but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.


So now then as this is comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this film having alot of painfully moments in it with even the church scene near the end of the movie where Beetlejuice distracts the rest of the characters by making them sing and dance to another song whilst he once again tries to marry Lydia being a really funny joke that whilst yes it won't ever top the Day-O scene from the original movie it's still a funny joke in it's own right and the film is filled to the brim with these crazy and zany jokes that wouldn't work in any other film but because there happening in a Beetlejuice film not only to they work but they also land really hard as well with there not really being a single bad joke in the whole entire film as that's just how funny all of this films jokes are and heck this film is worth watching just for the jokes alone with the best joke in the whole entire film being when Wolf his interrogates Beetlejuice about Delores and he shows him the picture of her to which Beetlejuice screams before covering up by saying that he's never seen her before which is just such a good joke as it does catch you off guard and heck even the over the top death of Charles and how they present it in the film is a funny joke in it's own right as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall this film is proof that when he really wants to this films director and producer Tim Burton really can make a really good film as that's exactly what he's really gone and done here as this is really a film that perfectly captures the spirit and tone of the original film whilst also leaving the door open to future films should they want to make more Beetlejuice films that is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in his very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

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

Friday, 31 January 2025

Dark Match Film Review



There are two things that very rarely if ever go together and that's the sport of professional wrestling and horror movies. Yet Shudder has now just released a wrestling based horror movie and since I love both horror and wrestling you all just knew that I had to check this movie out the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I review the film that shockingly doesn't have that many actual wrestlers in this wrestling based horror movie with the film in question being called simply just "Dark Match" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a small time promoter is given the opportunity for him and his wrestlers to perform infront of a much more bigger crowd he jumps at the chance without realizing that both he and his wrestlers will have to  compete for there lives. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as the plot of the film is an interesting plot with the plot of the film doing a good job of blending the horror aspects with the wrestling aspects really well and in a way that feels natural and organic and while the plot of the film could be seen as being a rip off of Pro Wrestlers Vs Zombies even down to having a pro wrestler in the film but here it is something that works as there are enough new elements to the films plot that does make it feel fresh and organic again and just like alot of Shudder's film this film is vastly different from all of the mainstream horror films that are coming out so much so that even from this films plot alone you can tell that no major Hollywood film studio would dare to touch this film as the plot of this film is just that weird and bizarre but in all of the best ways possible 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 Steven Ogg as Joe Lean , Michael Eklund as Spencer and Sara Canning as Kate The Great. Also starring in this film is Jonathan Cherry as Rusty , Ayisha Issa as Miss Behave , Leo Fafard as Lazarus Smashley , Mo Adan as Enigma Jones , Geordie Cheeseman as The Talent Scout , Stephanie Wolfe as Carol Ann , Marie Zydek as Seductive Follower , Dianne Wulf as Woman In Crowd , Jonathan Lepine as Thick , Chris W. Cook as Director , Troy Fyhn as Naked Party Guy , Michelle Meade as Hot Tub Woman , Christopher Allan Arp as Outside Guard , A Burley Redneck and A Ringside Guard , Justin Lawrick as Thin and one of this films executive producers Chris Jericho as Prophet.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this films acting being really alot more better then what it really had any right to be as alot of this films actors aren't that well known and as such it would have been very unwise to expect great performances from any of this films actors and while the performances aren't great they are really good with the likes of Steven Ogg and Chris Jericho being the best of the bunch with Ogg even channeling his inner Trevor Phillips in certain scenes which only serves to make his performance alot better and while Chris Jericho could have been a little bit more better his performance did feel true to the character presented on screen with his character being someone is kind of cagey and is always keeping things to close his chest and Jericho does portray him as such with the acting that's in this very film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which s something that does hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.


This films characters aren't that well thought out with alot of them being nothing more then just there wrestling characters and that's really it. Which is something that really doesn't work given how wrestling is presented in this film and as a result of that is the fact that the makers of the film really should have given alot more thought into it's characters and given them fledged personalities instead of just making them very note characters which is something that does get old after awhile and it is something that prevents us the audience from liking alot of the films characters as the only one to get  decent amount of thought put into his character at least from the heroes point of view is Steven Ogg's character and even then you could make the case that he's just playing a more tamer version of his character from GTA V  which is something that does work decently enough for this character but at the same time tho it would have been nice if the makers of this film did indeed give us anything that made these characters standout from one enough as alot of the characters just blend into one with this not really being helped by the fact that alot of the characters being really unlikable which does make it hard to form a connection with any of this films characters and while Steven Ogg's character does come across as being somewhat likable it does take a while for him to get there by which time it's far to little to late and what's worse is the fact that this is something that really could have been fixed with a rewrite of the films script.


With this being a wrestling based movie you'd expect the wrestling to be really good sadly tho that is not the case. As to be frank the wrestling that's in this movie is the kind of wrestling that you'd expect to see in a kids wrestling show and not something that you'd expect to see on TV with it being made painfully obvious that this films actors didn't do any or alot of the wrestling moves in this film as the camera would cut to shot where you can't see the face of the actor performing the move and while this kind of kid show wrestling would be fine if this was a kids wrestling movie where wrestling is being presented as something that's real here tho it's something that really doesn't work as wrestling is being presented as something that's scripted and this is an adult wrestling movie and as such there really should have been more effort into making the actual wrestling aspects of the movie look more well and heck they even have a wrestling legend in Chris Jericho in the cast so they very easily could have gone to him and asked him to train up some of the actors because it does come across as being obvious that none of this films actors had ever stepped foot in a professional wrestling ring and there characters are meant to be pro wrestlers so it would have helped the film out in the long if the actors where given time prior to filming the movie to get the ring and learn a few really basic movies that could then adapt and use in this movie but for some reason the makers of this movie chose not to go that route and as a result of that is the fact that we get wrestling that not only looks fake as heck but alot doesn't look as good as it really could have done given that the characters performing them really are meant to be professional wrestlers.

To give this film at least some sort of credit it does use the wrestling aspect of this film in a really creative and fun way. By giving us matches in which the wrestlers themselves can only win if they end up killing there opponent which is a fun aspect to the film and it's one that the film does indeed take as fully advantage if as it really could have done by giving a horror themed spin on the classic inferno match and with each match type being based on one of the four elements it means that we do get to see some really inventive matches in this movie but even those can't take away from the fact that the overall quality of the wrestling as a whole is just bad and while yes this film most likely had a really small budget thus most likely couldn't afford to have some actual wrestlers in this movie it is something that would have helped this movie out in the long run as they would know how to take the moves that the characters do to each other in this movie and make them look good which in turn would make the movie look even better then what it already is and while people who love horror won't care about how good the quality of the wrestling is in this movie the people who love wrestling certainly will and if your making a wrestling based horror movie then you need to cater to both of those audiences and that means not only having some really good looking kills and gore but it also means having some really good looking wrestling as well.


Without giving anything away the ending for this film is pretty bad as this film does the one thing that films really shouldn't do. With that being just end for no rhyme or reason and that is something that does make the ending to this film feel alot like sequel baiting when infact it should have just been focusing on wrapping up the story of this film and while yes this is film is decent enough that it could score a sequel but given that Shudder very rarely if ever hand out sequels it makes no sense for them to have an ending that's open ended that it could quite possibly leave itself open to a sequel as all that does is make it look like that the makers of this film are thinking about sequels when what they should be thinking about is making a film that people want to see more off and characters that people want to see more from something that this film sadly doesn't do as the world that this film creates isn't interesting enough to where they could do sequels and the characters aren't likable enough to were you want to see them in sequels and while the wrestling aspect of this movie could have been improved upon if they did do a do a sequel there's nothing in this films plot that really does leave the story open for further films as everything gets tied up in a nice little bow by the end of the film all of which makes this films ending seem pointless with it only being included in there so that the film can show us it's pretty bad to sometimes decent looking CGI monster and that's really it ad that's not enough to justify having a whole scene in your movie.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty three minuets and forty three seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you'd expects a film like this one to have and to this films credit this film really does have just the right amount there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho the films characters really aren't that well developed and thought out with the same thing also being true for the plot of this film as well with the film introducing things and then very quickly dropping them seemingly for no reason whatsoever all of which makes it feel like that the makers of this film really aren't taking as full advantage of there running time as they perhaps could have done as you very easily could have developed all of your key characters and the plot of your movie within that running time heck just look at the 1984 film version of A Nightmare On Elm Street as a good example of that as that film had a very similar running time to this film and yet it developed it's plot and it's characters and it took full advantage of it's running time by also developing the world upon which the film takes place in none of which are done in this film with this film feeling like it has thing running time just so the makers of the film can say that they made a feature length film with Chris Jericho in it and that's really it and that's not good enough reason if your not going to justify your film having this long of a running time but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.


So now then as this is a horror film that really does means that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With the film having some really decent kills in it all of which are play on the type of match that there in like the fact that the female lead of this movie Miss Behave wrestlers the character of Kate in a water match and she wins be dowsing her in water and snapping her neck but the best kill in the movie goes to either Thick or Thin as they take another tag team in a wind match where one of them cut open pretty badly which is just such a cool kill with the only kill that's a bit of a let down is oddly enough that of Jericho's himself as even tho he's mean the main villain of the film his kill is treated more as an afterthought and really isn't as over the top and as gory as it really should have been as that would been more a fitting end for this character but instead the kill that they did go with just felt like a let down when it should have been so much more bigger and more extravagant then what we ultimately ended up with as the kills for all horror film villains really should be over the top and be very satisfying because of it and that's sadly not something that we got in this very film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall while it would be hard to say if this is the best pro wrestling based horror film out there simply because of the fact that I haven't seen alot of the others what I can say is that this film is a flawed but delightfully twisted film that is sure to please the people who love wrestling in one respect but is sure to please the people who love horror films in alot more respects as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in this very review well then boys 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.

Tuesday, 28 January 2025

Mouse Of Horrors Film Review



For some strange reason indy horror makers have this fascination of turning Mickey Mouse into a slasher villain. As this film is the first of at least FOUR maybe even more then that Mickey Mouse based slasher films that are due to come out this year as we also have the very recently announced I Heart Willie , Screamboat and The Mouse Trap: Welcome To The Mickeyverse all of which feature the mouse as a slasher villain and that does seem like over kill as it can kill the novelty of having a beloved childrens characters be the villain in the a slasher movie and so then join me as I review the review the film that features not one but TWO Disney characters as the villains with the film in question being called simply just "Mouse Of Horrors" enjoy.

The plot of this film is a bunch of teenager go to the fair where they stalked by a man dressed as a mouse and one dressed as a bear both of which are trying to kill them for there body parts and both of which the teens must avoid if they want to survive the night. 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 as it just seems like a carbon copy of the plot of The Mouse Trap only done a little bit better with this films plot not really being all that interesting either as it's clear that this films plot was a n afterthought once the idea of the making Mickey Mouse the main villain came into the minds of the people that made this film and as such this films plot is one that on paper should have worked but due to the fact that nothing about this films plot feels all that well thought out and developed it instead comes across as being good idea that was wasted on a good film and even if this film did copy The Mouse Trap with it's setting and killer they still should have learned from the mistakes of that films plot and at least put in some effort into crafting a good story which is something that the makers of this film sadly don't do with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this film is Lewis Santer as The Killer , Stephen Staley as The Bear and Chris Lines as Dr. Rupert. Also starring in this film is Natasha Tosini as Chloe , Allie Moreno as Kim , Erin Sanderson as Meg , Rosie Edwards as Lucy , Harry Giubileo as Charlie , Nichaela Farrell as Brandy , Jake Watkins as Jake , Danielle Scott as Taylor , Thomas K. Murphy as Michael , Tessa Wood as Janet , Eve Vice as Dana , Misti Taylor as Molly , Johnny Vivash as Paul Chamberland , Nicholas Soden as Ryan The Runner , Michelle Bauer as Silvia Sand and Geretta Geretta as Sinthia Sharp.

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 just as bad as you'd really want it to be. As let's be honest here these types of slasher movies don't really command good acting in them and while some of them do have some decent acting in them like Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey 2 for example this film is not that film as the acting in this film whilst it's not as bad as the acting in The Mouse Trap was it's still pretty bad but at the same time tho you can tell that all of the films actors are at least trying to make the films script work for them the issue is tho is that this films director and producer Brendan Petrizzo really has no idea of how to get a good performance out of his actors and as such all of this films actors just feel lost and unsure of what kind of performance to give in this film as there just so unsure of what to do in this film from a performance perspective with this films acting not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities is even meant to be in the first place which s something that really does help to lower the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.


As was mentioned at the start of this review this film does technically have two Disney characters as it's main villains. With the other one being oddly enough Winnie The Pooh with the makers of this film even using the original design from the first Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey film even down to the cheap looking mask and while this film is NOT set within the confides of the Twisted Childhood Universe it does feel weird seeing that version of Winnie The Pooh show up in this movie and it's not like he's a just a cameo character either he plays a slightly big role in the film and is in it quite alot and this is something that does make you wonder why the makers of this film even watched the first Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey film because if they did then they'd know that people hated that look for the character so much so that the makers of the sequel actually took the time to improve upon the characters design which just makes the makers of this film look lazy as they use the design that nobody liked all for no reason and while yes the character is in the public domain it still doesn't change the fact that the makers of this film didn't bother to change anything about the look of the character to make it fit there world and instead chose to go with the design and mask that alot of people who would watch this film would straight away pick up on as this is something that does also make there film look even more cheaper then what it already is.


In case it's not made clear by both the name of the movie nor who the main villain's mask and name is meant to be but one of this films main villains is quite clearly Mickey Mouse. While having Mickey Mouse as the main villain does indeed have it's novelty it's one that thanks to low budget indie horror film makers it's one that's sadly starting to loose it's novelty as there's only so many times that you can see this character turned into a horror film villain before it's not only starts to get old but also really boring as well say what you will about the Winnie The Pooh horror films but at least there was only two of them so far thus meaning that the novelty of seeing that character in a horror film setting is still there and yet with Mickey Mouse we are due to get dozens of them all within the next five years alone and that is something that is ultimately going to do more harm then good as by the time the last one comes out whenever that is no matter how good that film might look nobodies going to want to see as they've already seen a horror film where Mickey Mouse is the main villain some times waiting and seeing is the best thing and if your not going to do anything new with the character then what's the point as this film doesn't do anything new or interesting with the character as it's just a man dressed up in a Mickey Mouse mask and that's it and yet the film does nothing interesting with the fact that it has someone who is blatantly meant to be Mickey Mouse as it's main villain something that it very easily could have done with just a few lines of dialog and that in the end would help the film standout more from all of the other Mickey Mouse based horror films both out there and that are yet to come as well.

While it is hard to say just how big this films budget was exactly it's clear as day that this film didn't have a very big budget. As the films has a passable Mickey Mouse mask and it straight up reuses the Winnie The Pooh design from Blood And Honey 1 but this film also has some really painfully laughable CGI which makes the effects in Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania look good by comparison with all of this films CGI effect being the best part of the film just due to how bad that they are and no joke one of them near the end of the movie is so bad and so laughable that I had to actually stop and rewind the movie just so I could see it again as it's just that bad granted this film would have a very small budget but you have to work within your limitations or find creative solutions something that the makers of this film quite clearly didn't do as they didn't work within there limitations at all and they didn't find creative solutions to all of the bad looking CGI look say what you will about The Mouse Trap but at least that film worked within it's small budget and found creative solutions that came up because of it's small budget here the bad CGI and the bad sound effects whilst they do make the film really painfully to watch to watch they also emphasise just how cheap that this movie was to maker with that quality really dragging the film down even further as at least with the first Blood And Honey film for the most part barring the bad costumes for both Piglet and Winnie The Pooh you couldn't tell that that film had a really mall budget where as here you can tell right from the first shot that this has a really small budget.


To give this film some very small amount of credit it does know exactly what kind of film that it is and because of that the film does become more of a horror comedy then a straight up slasher film. With some of this films jokes working and others just not working all together which is exactly the route that indie horror film makers should take when there making a beloved kids animated TV show character in a horror villain as then they can lean into the campiness of the original character and lean into the cheesiness that films like this do more often then not have and it's when this film leans into those elements that it does become more fun to watch and actually watchable but the film doesn't lean into those very elements all that often and even when it does it's usually for a scene or two and that's really it with the rest of the film completely playing it straight which means that the concept of having Mickey Mouse as the main villain doesn't really work as the film can't have any fun with that idea and when the whole film banks on that idea working then everything else surrounding the film just straight up doesn't work as we the audience aren't here to watch this films dreadful attempt at compelling or even good character we want to see Mickey Mouse act as a villain for a change and part of that does mean leaning into the more campy and more cartoonish aspects of the character instead of only going half way which makes the film alot less fun to watch when a film like this just due to it's concept alone really should be the most fun to watch.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty three minuets and twenty six. Which is pretty much the bogstandard for all of these Mickey Mouse based horror films and while the film does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time this film really didn't need to be this long as you very easily could have cut this film down to about one hour hour and fifteen minuets and you wouldn't loose anything that's actually important to the plot of the film as the plot isn't that well developed in the first place. With this film not even taking that full advantage of it's running time by developing it's characters as all of this films characters both hero and villain are just very one dimensional and bland characters with it being obvious that the makers of this film don't care about making us the audience actually care for it's characters as they thought that having Mickey Mouse be the main villain would be more then enough to get people to watch the film and while that might be the case if you want your film to actually be good then you need to have good characters and a good plot to go with them otherwise what's the point in even trying to make a film a first place as your audience just won't care about your characters and if our audience doesn't care about your characters the you've already lost the battle but I really will admit that this film really does have some really bad pacing to it tho.


So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As this film does have some really good looking gore and kills in it but what lets this film is the one thing that lets alot of this film down and that's the fact that it's a cheap film that in this case also has alot of really cheap sounding sound effects and while that might sound like a nit pick but a good sound effect can make or break a kill as every kill in every slasher movie ha to sound like it hurt to watch and in this case they just don't as they sound like alot of sound effects that you can use for free which is great if your making a home movie with your friends but for a low budget indie horror movie there really should have been more effort into creating actually good hearing sound effects as those will make the kills alot better with this film not having a standout kill as the sound effects just kill every little bit of tension that the film does at least try to build up and while all of the kills in this very do have some decent gore effects in them those aren't enough to make up for the poor sounding sound effects as all they do is remind you that your watching a very bad movie which is something that just isn't the case for either of the Blood And Honey films as they at least have decent sounds effects that make the kills in those movie actually sound like that they actually really do indeed hurt in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall while The Mouse Trap was the worst movie that I watched last year this one is very serious contender for my worst movie of this year as it's just a flat out bad movie that can at times be a chore to sit through and watch but when this film does get entertaining it can also be a really entertaining film to watch as well you just have to sit through alot of the bad stuff to get to a few moments of the good stuff in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 4.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and a well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page , Tenor 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.

Piglet Film Review

For some strange reason it's now become the in thing in Hollywood to turn classic childhood characters into slasher horror film villains...