Bikini Shark Film Review

There are some movies where you just know by the title just how bad that it's going to be with this film being one of them. As all you have to do is just look at the films title as it straight away tells you that this is going to be a bad film and to be frank this film is really bad and not in a way that makes it good again but what do you expect when it's from the writer of Fairest Of Them All and so then join me as I review the film that makes Sharknado and the Slumber Party Massacre remake look good by comparison with the film in question being called simply just "Bikini Shark" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a group of friends go away to help one of the friends clean up a house that there Grandad once stayed at they discovered a coursed set of bikini's that sets sharks on who ever is wearing them. 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 with this films plot being laughable at best as to say that this films plot is stupid would be an insult to stupid plots as it's just so dumb which fair enough might be the point as this film is meant to be horror comedy but even those still need to have good plots in them with this films plot being really weak with it being so weak that it could be the plot to a TV show pilot and nothing would need to be changed with it being clear as day that there was no thought and no effort put into making this films plot good or even OK as everything in regards to the plot of this film just screams as something that you'd find on sale in a direct to DVD film heck if this was the plot to a Youtube fan film it would be pretty decent at best but it's not as it's made by writers who have written several other horror movies just this year alone and yet they all seem to never learn to make a good plot as this films plot is just so bad and so dull that it feels like something a first time writer would come up with with the plot of this film also being not really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Mouseboat Massacre and Popeye's Revenge star Kathi DeCouto as Esther and Alesia Lifantii as Tracey. Also starring in this film is Christian Ndonda as Danny , Amber Olivia as Beth , Jules Prudhon as Stephen , Piglet and Shoot My Heart, My Mafia Boss star Alina Varakuta as Ginger , Jessie Vinning as Jenna and The Leprechaun's Game and Rise Of The Mummy star Wiktoria Wabnyc as Kacey. 

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very fil 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. With this films lack of acting being on par with it's plot as it's just that bad with very few to none of this films actors turning in a good performance as alot of them are just so wooden and sound so robotic that it makes there scenes painful to watch with this being something that does make some form of sense as alot of this films actors are either unknown actors or have have mostly just worked as extra's and had no speaking lines before now and yet it's one of those actors that's this films best actor as actor Jessie Vinning even tho she's done work as an extra on shows like House Of The Dragon and falls like one of the more recent Mission Impossible films has never had a speaking part before now and yet she's the only one that's actually trying to turn in a good performance with the rest of this films actors just phoning in there performances but to be fair when the script is this bad it would be hard for anyone to turn in a good or even passable performance 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 actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film. 

Doing this films CGI is the little known studio but are still legends and are still really great that are currently over at Luma Pixels. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad for what would have been a really small budget as while yes no one will ever argue the fact that this films budget was tiny as are alot of these badly made British horror films are and because of that this film does have a really tiny effects budget which is something that does show alot of the time when we see people driving in a car for example you can tell that they were filmed against either a blue or green screen as the backgrounds look a little to fake and the actor facing away from the background has this weird line around them which just looked odd but to this films credit for what was a really small budget the titular sharks do look as good as they were ever going to look as while they do look like they belong in a Playstation 3 video game cutscene for this films budget that is pretty impressive and to the films credit the sharks are implemented well enough with the live action elements that they do come across as being passable effects with the only thing really holding them back is the fact that alot of the time we do see blood before the shark attacks someone when it should be coming at the same time and that's really it as while there is another issue inreguards to the films effects that's something that's going to be discussed later on in this review as it's part of a much more bigger issue with the film.

May god this film really does try to be like Sharknado even down to them having sharks attacking people on dry land. However tho that film at least tried to ground itself in some form of reality by having there be a massive flood first and then had the sharks being lifted into the town so it does become somewhat more believable when a shark does attack someone on land here tho they just straight up have the sharks swimming around on dry land for no reason when that wouldn't even be possible due to the fact that sharks NEED water to swim in look granted this film is meant to be a comedy and it's therefor not meant to be taken all that seriously which is fair enough but at the same time there still needs to be some form of believability to it as the title alone pretty much forces us to stretch or imagination pretty thin and now the makers of this film are adding in this one element that doesn't even make sense even tho it is a great way to build up suspense as it now means that are main characters who are all very poorly written even by the standards of Harry Boxley who yes did write this film it does go to show you that he really just relies more on the idea of people being attacked by sharks when there on land instead of going to the trouble to explain why the sharks are able to swim on land in the first place heck he doesn't even explain why the sharks are eating people that only wear this one companies set of Bikini's which is a key plot point to give Sharknado some credit at least they explained away all of there key plot points to the point where they became believable yes there still dumb as those are dumb movies but there more believable then what happens in this film.

This is really something that really shouldn't need to be said but continuity in films really is a big thing and it makes a film look even more bad when they just straight up ignore. Case in point in this film they have a girl make a phone call to her friend near what is presumably her car and when the friend does eventually pick up the phone she gets attacked by a shark which isn't a bad thing but the issue comes when the film then cuts back to the friend and she's now just a mere few feet away from the friend when they were no where near each other in just the previous scene. With the makers of the film not even bothering to get the actors to actually look at where the shark is going to be as when the shark is attacking Amber Olivia and Wiktoria Wabnyc's characters Amber is looking up when she should be looking more down now to her defense she most likely hasn't done an effects heavy movie like this one with the same thing also being true for this films director E J Marshall so they most likely had no clue on how to make that scene which is fair enough but at the same time tho there needed to be some level of quality control as in the scene in question it does look like that Wiktoria Wabnyc is looking where the shark is going to be but it's just Amber who is looking at something else entirely and it's small things like that that do ruin the illusion as it just reminds you that your watching a film when the makers of this film should have been working over time to make this film the best that they possibly could have done and yet they instead chose just phone in almost every aspect of the film and it really is something that does show through in the films final product.

The characters in this film are none the better either as the main character Beth is just a bland character with nothing interesting about her. With Kacey being pretty much a social media influencer type of character so yeah she's pretty annoying as well with the only two characters in the film that are somewhat like able are Esther and Jenna and that's really it and even then Esther doesn't really show up until near the end of the film with what makes both characters somewhat interesting and likable is the fact that Esther is the mother of the films killer and Jenna is actually doing research about him for a college course and is in an abusive relationship with Beth's boyfriend which she only just finds out is abusive during the course of this film when he tries and fails to have her and there unborn baby killed by the queen shark with both of the films main male characters being so forgettable that it's not even worth mentioning them by name with the only one that's somewhat more memorable being the character of Stephen as he's the abusive boyfriend character who gets eaten by the queen shark but just to give you an idea of how bland all of the characters are in this film the film doesn't have it's main killer listed on IMDB it has all of the hero characters but not the one that people might be somewhat interested in which is a shame as the killer for this film is one of the more memorable characters in the film alone with Stephen and yet his name and who played him in the film is nowhere to be found online and yet all of the films hero characters are for some reason which makes no sense as surely the point is to list all of the main characters in a film and not just a small handful of them.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and fourteen minuets and seventeen seconds. Which is pretty much the exact running time that you'd expect a film like this one to have and to this films credit it really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time however tho this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the plot of the film isn't that well developed and can't be that well developed due to the fact that the film has a few scenes that have slow motion each of which last around TWENTY seconds each which in a longer film wouldn't seem like much but in a short film like this those seconds are things that could have been spent on developing the films plot and actually explaining things about the films plot with the films characters even suffering because of this as they get no character development what so ever with the film leaving the characters as bland and one dimensional when there should have been some time spent on adding quite literally anything to this films characters that help to make them seem more like fully formed characters but because of the fact that the film seems to be more focused on adding more pointless slow motion scenes then a typical Zack Snyder film it means that we are left with characters that are as bland as the characters from a typical Zack Snyder film with the film even taking a good while to really get going when it really should have been all about the plot from the second that the first kill of the film happens but I really admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

 

So now then as this a horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about he actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured /presented to us in this very film was in all honesty OK at best. As there really isn't alot of creativity to this films kills which does make alot of sense as there's not really that much that you can do with sharks as the ones that are killing alot of people and with this film being a horror comedy it does make sense that the film would put alot more focus on it's comedy aspect then it's horror aspect or it would if the films comedy was any good but sadly it's not with the film not even telling any jokes whatsoever and playing everything including is rather wacky and out there premise straight with the best kill in the whole film going to Stephen and even then it's just because of the fact that out all the main hero characters his was the one that was earned and that's really it as all it is is the queen shark jumping out of the water and killing him with the only thing that lets his death down being the fact that the makers of the film use CGI blood on all of their kills instead of using practical effects and heck we don't even get to see what his body looks like after the shark attacked him with the same thing being true for all of the other victims in this film as that's just how bland of a horror film that this film really is alot of the time as the film doesn't anything funny or even scary which makes it be a bad horror comedy as the film doesn't bother to tell any jokes as even the films premise would have made for a good running joke as it's just there wacky and out there that if the film leaned into to how stupid it's premise is it would have made the film more entertaining and the films kills are just bland kills in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if you ever come across this film anywhere be it online or in shops avoid it at all costs and watch something better as there's no value in watching a film that's not even so bad it's good as this film that's just straight up bad , bland and more importantly boring 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 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.

A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge Film Review

Forty years ago today we got a movie that has since gone to become a cult classic even tho it was ignored just one film later. With that film oddly enough also pushing boundaries by having homose*ual themes put into it something which would guarantee that this film would be made today and yet at the same time it's also one that's been ignored by Warner Bros as while they went all out for the fortieth anniversary of the first film in this franchise they haven't done anything inreguards to this film and so then join me as I review the film where we find out that true love wasn't between Jesse and Lisa but instead was clearly between Jesse and Ron with the film in question being called simply just "A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge" enjoy.

The plot of this film is five years after the events of the first film Jesse moves into Nancy's old house with his family and starts having nightmares about Freddy and must find away to stop them before he ends up killing all of the people that he loves most in the world. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us un 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 while yes this films plot does at least try to do something other then just copy the plot of the first film what it does do differently makes it feel so far removed from that of the first film that it might as well be set in a completely different film universe and yet with the way that the film does stick closely to the first films plot it makes it feel like it's just playing all of the greatest hits only without understanding what it was that made them great in the first place and while this is of course understandable as this was only the second film in the franchise there still should have been some effort into making this films plot as good if not better then the plot of the first film was as this is a plot that is more then strong enough to support an entire film it just needed the right creative people in charge of it to make it as good as it possibly could have been but to give the film some credit the new stuff that the film does add in whilst it is interesting it's just not something that works for an A Nightmare On Elm Street movie is all 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 Mark Patton as Jesse Walsh , Kim Myers as Lisa Webber and Robert Rusler as Ron Grady. Also starring in this film is Clu Gulager as Ken Walsh , Hope Lange as Cheryl Walsh , Marshall Bell as Coach Schneider , Melinda O. Fee as Mrs. Webber , Tom McFadden as Mr. Webber , Sydney Walsh as Kerry Hellman , Christie Clark as Angela Walsh , Lyman Ward as Mr. Grady , this films producer Robert Shaye as A Bartender and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger.

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 this films actors turning in better performance then what was really required for this film as while of course we all know that Robert Englund is great in this movie as he is in all of these movies but so is Mark Patton and Kim Myers and alot of this films new actors with them all turning in some really good performances and while of course some will be better then others like it's clear as day that Mark Patton is struggling alot of the time there really is no one else who could play Jesse like he does with Marshall Bell being another actor that whilst he isn't that good in this film no one could play his character quite like he does with the best actor in the whole entire film of course Robert Englund as Freddy Kruger as the man was just simply born to play this character with him being so good as the character in this film that you actively notice when it's not him playing the character in the same film as the actor chosen to play him in one shot of the movie just doesn't have the same swagger that Robert brings to the character and with this being the more scary Freddy and less jokey version of the character that really does mean that Robert gets a chance to turn in a really bone chilling performance something which he really does take full advantage of doing with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film. 

To give this film some credit whilst the writing for the characters might be really bad the characters themselves are pretty good. As while this films characters aren't some of the best characters that this franchise had they also aren't the worst ones either with a good example of this being oddly enough Jesse himself as he is just the stereotypical new kid at school who is just hoping to make it to the end of the day and that's it and to be fait that's all he needed to be as he's meant to be the audience surrogate character which means that alot of the question about who Freddy is and why Freddy is the way that he is falls to Jesse but in saying that tho characters like Lisa and Ron do come across as being a bit more better then him tho as Lisa is the girl next door type of character and yet she's the one that does alot of the research about Freddy and is the one that finds out how to bring Jesse back and Freddy somehow fully takes over his body and with Ron he serves as a confidant to Jesse someone who can confide in when he can't talk to either of his parents with this being something that does strengthen there bond with them going from people who do outwardly hate each other at the start of the film to people who trust each other heck Jesse even goes to him and asks him to wake up should it look like that he's having a nightmare something which he didn't do with Lisa and while yes there some pointless characters in this film like the character of Kerry who is only just there for the films cliffhanger ending and that's really it and Jesse's parents who don't really add anything to the plot film but are also characters that you can't really remove from the film due to how important that both they and sister Angela are to the character of Jesse when the film does have an important character it makes sure that you know it as the film has them spend alot of time with Jesse. 

There's really no way to sugar coat this but this film is known as being the gay one in the franchise due to it's homoerotic subtext. Which isn't really subtext as you can tell right away just what the film is really trying to say so much so that many others myself included in this review have made jokes about how obvious it is that Jesse and Ron are meant to be a gay couple and it really is something that makes you wonder how audiences members back in the eighties felt when this film was first coming out as while having this kind of stuff in a film is more accepted these days back then it really wasn't and yet the film has a scene with a character in what is obviously meant to be either a gay bar or a BDSM bar with the film then having said character getting whipped by Freddy Krueger the idea of subtext is that it's meant to be subtle and this films subtext is anything but that so much so that star Mar Patton even released a documentary about his experiences with the film being called Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street as Patton was himself closeted at the time of the film's production with the film pretty much forcing him to come as gay and yet to be fair to the film it doesn't actually demonize anybody for being either gay or straight which is great as it really shouldn't have done and yet while it didn't pave the way for more gay storied to be told in eighties slasher films due to the fact it did become a cult film which was something that that was no doubt helped by it's homoerotic subtext it made the film fun to watch in a so bad that it's good kind of way with this being the kind of film that pretty much become destined to be a cult film to it's homoerotic subtext.

There are some things that in this film that just don't work like the fact that the film retconns the first film so that now Nancy kept a dairy. Which was something that we never saw her with in the first film but to be fair it is possible that after the events of the first film that she got counselling and her counsellor asked her to write down everything that she went through in a dairy but then in the third film Nancy not only doesn't mention that she sought help for the things that she went through in the first film or that she kept a dairy so it's pretty obvious that this retcon was just done so that the makers of the film could have the character of Nancy Thompson appear in the film without actually having her appearing in the actual film itself with the film even having the Thompson family move house inbetween films and Nancy herself become some sort of town story that the kids would tell each other which makes you wonder why Lisa doesn't know about Nancy as even if she didn't meet her the fact that a bunch of kids got killed would be pretty big news and would become the sort of thing that people around the town would keep on saying even if it's just in passing to one another with this being something that is hinted to have had happened as Ron himself says that Nancy's mom went crazy and put bars all of the houses windows something that he wouldn't have seen as he lives no where near Nancy's house but is something that he would have heard about with it seeming like that the makers of this film wanted to find a reason to have Lisa do all of this research on Freddy and so they made kind of an air head when it comes to what happened in the previous film even tho it makes no sense as it's something that she would have heard about in the town itself.

With the other two things that really don't work in this film being the fact that this film breaks the rules of the franchise on two separate accounts with the first of which being the Freddy can now enter the real world something which he takes great advantage of doing in the films pretty good pool party scene. With the second one being the one that's alot more harder to ignore as when you stop and think about Freddy has no reason to go after Jesse as Jesse's parents weren't involved with the killing and burning of Freddy back when he was alive so Freddy shouldn't be going after Jesse and his family as that then goes against his entire revenge plot if anything going after Ron or Lisa would make more sense as then you could make the argument that there parents where there when Freddy was burnt alive but with Jesse and his family you don't have that as we literally see Jesse unpacking stuff for his room very early on in the film with it even being brought up that Jesse's dad brough the house of someone so its therefor safe to assume that the whole family aren't from Springwood and therefor Jesse's parents had nothing to do with the death of Freddy Krueger with this being something that makes it look like that this films writer David Chaskin never even watched the first film was instead alot more focused on doing his thing in this world instead of carrying on the story that was started in the first film as you very easily could have done all of the things that are done in this film and still have continue the story of the films by having it focus on a different house on Elm Street and that's really it as then the film could still have it's subtext and still follow the rules set fourth by the first film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty five minuets and thirty seven seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running time for all of these early Nightmare films with the film having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time however tho in saying that this film really doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the film doesn't take the time that it really should have done in developing it's plot as the films plot as strong as it is doesn't really get alot of attention with things like why Freddy needs Jesse specifically and how Freddy can suddenly take over people's bodies and enter the real world being left unexplained when those are things that really should have been explained inorder to make them alot more believable in the film and while yes the entire aspect of how Freddy can invade people's dreams isn't explained either that's part of the fun of the films as we all need to sleep but now we can't do that as that's where Freddy can get us but the whole idea of Freddy being able to takeover someone's body without being explained is something that's a bit to far and needed to be explained with the films characters as none of the films characters get anything in the way of character development which is something that all of the best Nightmare On Elm Street films give alot of there characters and yet the makers of this film don't bother to do when it is something that really would have helped us the audience to form more of a connection with it's characters and decide on if we either love them or hate them but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt tat the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the films kills really being the best aspect of the film as while there not there franchises best kills as the next film has that honor there are however still some very creative kills as we do get to see Freddy kill people in some really creative ways and while there really isn't alot of gore in his film at least when compared to the first film the films kills are still really fun to watch with the films best kill being the death of Ron as even the kill itself is pretty basic as it's just Freddy stabbing him with his glove and that's really it what really sells it and makes it all the more creepy and terrifying is the build up to the kill as we get to see Jesse slowly and painfully get attacked by Freddy as Freddy forces himself out of Jesse all the while Ron is frantically banging on his door begging his mom and dad to come and help and while they do arrive they can't get in as the door is locked something which Ron himself doesn't know about and it's only then that Freddy stabs him and pins the blame on Jesse as he's the only other person in the room with that kill being so creative and while it only becomes creepy once you take the entire build up to the kill into account it's only once you take in all of that scene into account that we end up with a scene with a really cool kill and while the pool party massacre could have been the films best kill as it's Freddy slaughtering a bunch of teens it's the fact that it's Freddy in the real world that does take you out of that kill and stops it from being as good as it really should have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it's not that hard to see why this film became the cult favorite that it became as this was film that really destined to be more of cult favorite then what the previous film but at the same time tho you can see the huge decline in quality from the first film as well as it's clear as day that the makers of this film weren't fans of and had never seen the first film before agreeing to make this film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review ad 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 noys 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.

Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers Film Review

With this review being written on Halloween night itself I wanted to take a look at a film that I really haven't seen until now. Which was something that proved to be alot more harder then first thought however there was something that made this film jump out and made me want to talk about it that being the overtly campy nature of the film itself and so then join me as I review the film that featured The Boss's sister in the lead role with the film in question being called simply just "Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers" enjoy.

The plot of this film is a few years after the events of the first film Angela has a job at a camp working as a camp counsellor when she decides to start a new killing spree. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with this films plot being campy and over the top but in a way that's fun and in a way that lets you know that the makers of this films know full well just what kind of film that there making and because of that they just have fun with it with that being something that comes through in the films plot as while yes it is very firmly a typical summer camp slasher film but it's what the film does with those elements that makes the films plot one that's fun to see as we have all of the elements that you'd expect to see from a summer camp clasher film only now they have a killer that the audience likes and while yes granted this films plot might not be the strongest plot out there but given that that also could be true for both the original and it's sequels it is something that does fit right at home with this film and while this is a plot that could also be seen as being pretty bad and people would have every right for thinking that as the plot isn't all that good either if you look at this film for what it is and are able to take this films plot for exactly what it is then there's a whole lot of fun to be had with this films plot with the plot of the 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 Pamela Springsteen as Angela Johnson / Angela Baker and Renée Estevez as Molly Nagle. Also starring in this film is Anthony Higgins as Sean Whitmore , Valerie Hartman as Ally , Brian Patrick Clarke as T.C. , Susan Marie Snyder as Mare , Terry Hobbs as Rob Darrinco , Kendall Bean as Demi , Julie Murphy as Lea , Carol Chambers as Brooke Shote , Amy Fields as Jodi Shote , Benji Wilhoite as Anthony , Walter Franks III as Judd , Justin Nowell as Charlie , Heather Binion as Phoebe , Jason Ehrlich as Emilio , Carol Martin Vines as Diane and The Spy Who Loved Me star Walter Gotell as Uncle John.

Now then inters 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. Which was something that was quite surprising as all but one of this films actors are known actors and therefor it would have been really foolish to expect good or even great acting from this films actor and while this films acting isn't OSCAR worthy by any stretch of the imagination it's also alot more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this films acting should have been really bad and while it's not as a good as the acting in the first film was it's still really good in it's own right with all of this films actors really nailing their roles and having alot of fun with what little character that they all had to work with in the first place with the best actor in the whole entire film being Pamela Springsteen as Angela Johnson / Angela Baker as she not only had the toughest job out all of this films actors as she had to copy what Felissa Rose did with the exact same character but she also had to make it her own and given her very limited acting experience at the time that is something that must have been hard to do and yet she pulls it off so well with her even helping to make the character of Angela likable in this film 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 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. 

Much like alot of the slasher films from the late eighties this one also has alot of really paper thin characters in it. Which it very well could be argued is also apart of the films charm as slot of summer camp slasher films also do have paper thin characters as well and to this films credit it does make good use of those characters abut at the same time there should have been just as much effort into making the other characters standout as there was into making sure that Angela stood out from all of the horror icons out there as all of the characters apart from Angela do start to bend into one another as they don't have anything that makes them standout from each other which is something that really does make it hard for us the audience to like these characters even tho we are meant to want to see them survive the film which does mean that we end up cheering more for Angela as she's the only character that has something in the way of a personality with the other one that's close to having a personality being Angela's best friend in the film Molly and even then Molly isn't all that interesting of a character as she's just the typical final girl type of character only she has nothing added to her character that makes her feel unique with this being something that the makers of this film really could have done and given that they filmed both this film and it's sequel quite literally back to back then they could have had Molly come back for the sequel to kind of by this franchises version of the Tommy Jarvis or Nancy Thompson character and give the attention that she really did need character wise but as it is she feels like the waste of a good character as she has all of the potential there to be a good character and heck even Renée Estevez does her best with the character but there still needed to be that little extra something there to make her a better more well rounded character in the film.

Like alot of the slasher films from the late eighties this film also leaned more into dark comedy with this film going one step further then that by adding an element of camp to the film as well. As while Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare and alot of the later Jason Voorhees movies had that dark comedy element in them they never got that campy in those films and yet here they fully embrace the fact that it's dark comedy by not only having Angela sing this overly happy and cheesy camp song but also by having her spout what can best be described as James Bond-esque one liners both during and after alot of the films kills al of which do make this film alot more campy in tone then what we got in the first film which took he same idea as this film but played in entirely straight with the change in tone really working well for this film as the first film was all about building up tension and making us guess just who the killer was going to be but this film doesn't have to do that due to the fact that it's a sequel and so it just has alot more fun with it's premise and with it's killer and while yes granted this film would have worked just as well if it didn't have that campy tone to it it also wouldn't have made the film all the more memorable either as it would then fall in with all of the rest of the summer camp slasher films that came out in the eighties and yet by giving the film this campy tone yes it doesn't improve the quality of the film by any stretch of the imagination it also makes the film alot more memorable to watch as well but there's also something to be said for the film playing every straight as it could be argued that by doing that it would make the film both more scarier and more funnier as well.

This film is actually quite rare for a slasher film not that it's hard to find or anything like that but what makes it rare is that both parts 2 and 3 for this film were shot back to back. With there only being a WEEKEND break between finishing filming this film and starting filming on the third film this is something that really hasn't been done in a slasher film both before this film came out and after it came out just due to the fact that unlike say a comic book movie where you have that natural cut off point in the film you can't really have a slasher film where not only alot of the main characters make it out alive but so does the killer as that's not what happens in a slasher film and so you have to have that time inbetween the filming of one movie and the start of filming the sequel and while there was a practical reason for this as the director of both films Michael A. Simpson wanted to keep the budget for the films under one million American dollars he very easily could have done that anyway as these films aren't by there very nature expensive films to make as you very easily could have made this film for around about three hundred thousand dollars and still get the same quality of effects out of it and then waited a good month or two to then begin working on developing the third film in the series instead of just filming the two films back to back as all that does is end up tiring your cast and crew something which does show in that film as Pamela Springsteen does look to be really tired in that film and when you've just filmed two movies over the course of six weeks that will tire anyone out young or old and yet for one reason or another the makers of this film thought that it was a good idea to film to films back to back even tho that now means that one of the films does suffer due to the fact that the makers of the film just aren't able to give it there full attention.

As was mentioned at several points in this film this film makes Angela a really likable character by only having her kill people that have either wronged her personally or that go against her strong moral code. Which is something that does make her a likable character as the only characters that go against that moral code are characters that aren't really all that likable in the first place and yet the film still wants to boo Angela and cheer for the other characters even tho there the ones that are doing and saying things that they know will get her made granted they don't know that she's a killer but it's still something that makes them really unlikable characters with the only time that Angela becomes somewhat unlikable is when she tries to kill her friend in the film Molly after Molly escapes the house the cabin that Angela left her tied up in and that's really it but by that point we the audience have already decided which of the two characters that we like more and it's Molly as she has nothing interesting or entertaining about her where as with Angela yes she's the films main killer but she's also a really entertaining character who actually has somewhat of a good reason for killing alot of these characters with Angela being this overtly happy character who has grown alot since the first film as she went from someone who barely said a word to someone who in her own words can't shut up and because of that she gets more of a chance to showcase her personality a bit more where she does have this dark and twitsted sense of humor about her but is also someone who wears her heart on her sleeve and takes things really personally and it's those things that help to make her not only a really interesting character but also one that's entertaining and well rounded as well.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty minuets and seven seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you'd expect a film like this to have or rather you would if this film didn't have a pointless flashback scene to earlier scenes in the film that just so happens to be in slow motion as it adds nothing to the plot of the film and is quite literally a filler sequence when the film really didn't need any kind of filler at all as the film has more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place and while the film doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as it doesn't develop its plot all that well if it develop its plot then it wouldn't have needed that pointless flashback scene in the first place as all that does is eat up screen time that would have been better used either developing it's plot or developing it's characters as the films characters really do suffer from this as none of them apart from Angela are that well developed as characters with all of the coming across as being very one dimensional characters but for one reason or another the makers of this film thought that we'd forgotten what happened earlier on in the film and therefor needed reminding when we really didn't but what we did need was the very thing that the makers of this film chose not to give us because of that pointless flashback and that's a well developed plot and well developed characters as those are the things that will make a film good in the first place and while yes the first film didn't have either of those things either there was still an effort to have them in there whereas with this film it's the opposite that's true but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing in it tho.

So now then as this a slasher that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt 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 delightfully over the top kills in it all of which suit the more comedic nature of this film and while for a slasher film this film is rather lacking when it comes to gore what little gore that the film does have in it works really well for this film as it isn't to over the top and is only used very sparingly with the only thing that lets the films kills down is that Pamela Springsteen doesn't really hit people very well with all of her hits seeming really weak with the best kill in the whole entire film the scene where she dresses up to guys both of which are dressed up as Freddy and Jason respectively while Angela herself dresses up as Leatherface with her killing each of the boys in ways that are similar to how both Freddy and Jason would kill there victims with her then completing her Leatherface look by wearing the face of one of the boys which really was something that really does make that kill as simple as it is all the more campy and fun then what it really should have been as by all rights those two kills should have been really dull as all they are is just a pair of throat slashes and that's basically it but because of the fact that the makers of the film leaned heavy into the characters that they were basically parodying it was something that really did make those set of kills fun even in a film that's chock full of really fun filled kills in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  

Overall whilst the fist film is quite easily the best one of the franchise this film is perhaps the more entertaining of the films just due to how campy and how over the top that this film can be alot of the time which is something that does make this film one that's really fun to watch 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 tis very film in this very review as such that really does mean that this 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 used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , Amazon  Co . Uk , 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.

My SPOILER FREE First Impressions Of It: Welcome To Derry

Usually when a horror movie becomes so successful that it spawns a TV show the film was nine times out of ten a slasher film. However the same thing cannot be said for this show as it was based on a book and film that are in the supernatural horror genre and yet even so we still have a pretty cool looking first episode with it being proven that Alien: Earth isn't the only good new horror show to be based off of a film and so then join me as I give you MY SPOILER FREE first impressions of the show that takes us back to Derry with the show in question being called simply just "It: Welcome To Derry" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is four months after there friend disappears a group of kids all start hearing the song that he was listening on the day that he disappeared and set out to find there friend once and for all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes plot being a whole lot more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this episodes plot should have been the basic set up of the show type of plot and really nothing more then that but nope that's not what we get in this episode infact we know just as much about what the main shows plot is going to be about coming out of the episode then what we did coming into it with the episode really just telling it's own unique plot which was honestly really refreshing to see as now we the audience have more of a reason to check out episode two of this show with the plot of this episode being as strong as it was was ever going to be given the fact that it's the first episode of a new show and while yes this episode plot does fall into the same trappings that all first episode plots of a new show have to fall into but because of the fact that this show is a prequel to the 2017 It movie it doesn't have to set up the world that it takes place and because of that the plot of the show is allowed to be this really strong plot with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this episode is Taylour Paige as Charlotte Hanlon , Jovan Adepo as Leroy Hanlon and James Remar as General Shaw. Also starring in this episode is Stephen Rider as Hank Grogan , Matilda Lawler as Marge , Amanda Christine as Ronnie Grogan , Clara Stack as Lilly Bainbridge , Blake Cameron James as Will , Arian S. Cartaya as Rich , Miles Ekhardt as Matty Clements , Mikkal Karim Fidler as Teddy Uris , Jack Molloy Legault as Phil Malkin , Matilda Legault as Susie Malkin , Chris Chalk as Dick Hallorann , Rudy Mancuso as Pauly Russo , Dmitry Chepovetsky as Rabbi Uris , Finley Burke as Don Uris , Eli Katz as Mrs. Uris , Thomas Mitchell as Colonel Fuller , Chad Rook as Staff Sgt Masters , Mark MacRae as Young Father , Zoë Barrett-Wood as Young Mother , Audrey Wellington as Teen Daughter / Arlene , Lochlan Miller as Little Boy / Ray and Brittany Spiteri as Bert The Turtle.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episodes acting being alot like it's plot in that it's so much more better then what it had any right to be as by all rights this episodes acting should have been really flat and wooden with all of the actors still trying to figure out and find there respective characters and yet there's very little to none of that in this episode with all of the episodes actors turning in some really good performances with it being helped that this episodes director and one of the shows executive producers Andy Muschietti really does know how to get a good performance out of all of his actors a skill which he showcased in both of the It movies and does so again in this very episode with the best actor in the whole entire episode really being very hard to say as really all of this episodes actors could make that claim and it would make total sense with even the episodes kid actors not being as annoying as you'd think that they would be with Clara Stack having a bright future ahead of her should she want to continue acting but if push did indeed come to shove i'd  say that the best actor in the whole entire episode is Clara Stack as she really is the glue that holds this episode together and is just so good to watch in this first episode alone with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does raise the over all quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Character wise this episode does rather rightfully fall a little bit short as the characters aren't the best characters as they all do come across as being very one dimensional. This is very understandable at this point in time as this is after all only the first ever episode of the show with alot of the characters showing alot of promise and room to grow as characters however therein lies the problem as the foundations for these characters are rocky at best and so it doesn't matter how good that they end up being because of the fact that the foundations for these characters aren't good with the first impressions of these characters being weak at best but to be fair tho these types of shows do usually have weak characters in them as it's doubtful that any one will be remember any of the main characters names from either Friday The 13th: The Series or Scream: The TV Series which does mean that it makes sense for this episode to have weakly done characters as well and to be fair to this show it does seem like the makers of this show have watched other horror shows before now and learnt what not to do when it comes to there characters as the makers of the show do indeed take steps to show that the characters can be interesting and who knows might be good characters come the end of the season and while you always want to lead with your best foot forward here it does seem like it might be worth waiting until about the fourth episode before we get a really good handle on who these characters as people as this episode really doesn't give us a whole lot of backstory when it comes to quite literally any of it's characters.

Just incase you all don't know whilst it might easy to assume that this show is a prequel to original book it's actually a prequel to the 2017 It movie. Which to be fair is a really good idea as we don't really know what Pennywise was up to prior to the start of thar movie nor do we know what Derry itself was like prior to the start of that movie either but at the same time tho whilst is set in the world of the movies it is based on an interlude from the original book what that interlude is I can't say as i've not read the book nor do I intend to due to a certain scene involving the character of Bev but it is great to see that two pieces of media can come together and inspire a new piece of media and tell  a story that really hasn't been told before now and while yes this show could very easily fall into the same pitfalls that really all prequels tend to fall into when they have a character appear in the prequel that we know for sure is alive and well in the original here tho it is something that only time well tell if they do indeed fall into that and if so it is something that could make this show feel pointless as afterall who would want to watch a show where they already know the outcome of it but here in this episode it does seem like that the makers of the show won't be going down that route as there basically telling two origin stories at the same time the first of which being the origins of the town itself which is a really intriguing story and the second one being the one that alot of people are coming to this show to see that being the origins of Pennywise with both stories set to play out over the shows three planned seasons with each season taking a step back further into time itself.

This is an episode that really should have been alot more worse than what it actually was as usually in first episodes they spend alot of time on setting up the main story of the show and in setting up the shows main characters. Whereas here with this episode they send all of five minuets in setting all of that up before getting right to the action and when it gets to the action it doesn't let up which is what a horror show let alone one that's based off of a film should do as we already know how this world works thanks to the 2017 film and this was something that was huge issue with the debut episode of Alien: Earth as it took so long to get going that it made the episode feel more boring then what it actually was as it was to busy setting up the story , characters and the world when it really didn't need to set up the world that the show took place in because we already had the Alien movies that did all of that for us and yet here even tho it more get going quite quickly it does feel like that it's missing something like things that should have been mentioned during the episode just weren't for no reason whatsoever with this being something that whilst it doesn't effect people's overall enjoyment of the episode it is something that could effect the show the further that this first season of the show does indeed continue and while there are alot of things to talk about n the first episode alone all of those things are sadly spoilers and this post is going to remain as spoiler free as possible but in saying that tho there are things that do work for the episode like the fact that it does have some rather subtle social commentary which granted really wasn't needed in the episode but it is something that would have been present when this episode was taking place in and it was something that was handled rather well.

This is a show that is meant to have a mystery element to it as the characters do have to work out what actually happened to there friend Matty. However much like with the characters the mystery element doesn't really work as well as it might do when all of the other episodes are taken into account due to the fact that the episode really doesn't give us any clues as to what's actually going on other then the fact that it might involve the towns Army Air Base and that's really it which is fine for a first episode as you do have have to give us the audience something to make us come back and watch episode two which thankfully this episode does do a good of doing exactly that but at the same time tho that does seem like a rather obvious place to go to when we the audience know that Pennywise is going to be involved in the mystery to some degree and so all we are left doing is basically just waiting for what we know is going to happen whilst watching these characters run around trying to play catch up with us the audience when we should be with the characters interms of what they know and this is where announcing that Bill Skarsgård is coming back as Pennywise is a bad idea as it right away robs the show of any tension and surprise that it might have had had that been kept as a surprise as then you could have had that big shocking reveal that you want to have when something has a mystery to it as that then could have been the perfect cliffhanger ending to one of the episodes and would then have made you wonder just where the series is going to be going next and whilst we do still get that as not much is revealed about the shows main plot that big shocking moment of finding out that Pennywise is in the show is now spoiled.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty three minuets and forty five seconds. Which to be fair to this episode does seem like a solid running time to have with the episode having just about the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place with the episode making the best use of it's running time that it could possibly have done by getting the plot moving right away but in saying that tho this is an episode that really doesn't use it's running tom all that wisely as it doesn't really develop it's plot all that well which granted might be because all of that plot development is going to becoming in the later episode of the show but at the same time tho given the events of this episode it is something that really does make you wonder just why the makers of the episode isn't take the time to start that development now as they've only got seven more episodes to do all of that and still tell a really good story as well with the episode not really taking the time to develop it's characters either which again is something that's completely understandable as this sis the first episode of a new show and it would be foolish to expect the characters to be that well developed after the episode but again given what happens in this episode it would have made some form of sense if some of the characters got some character development as that is something that will make them more memorable as characters and not the kind of characters that your going to forget about five minuets after the episode airs but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is a horror show that really doe mean that I gave to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty really good. With this episode being worth watching just for the kills alone as there both that good and are that creative with them both really taking as full advantage as they possibly could do of the fact that this show is airing on HBO and HBO Max as there's alot of blood and gore in both of this films kills with both of them being really creepy in their own right with one of them showing what can best be described as a slow decent into madness and the other is basically watching a storm that you know is going to be very dangerous come slowly towards you and yet they both work really well with both of this films kills being the best kills in the whole entire episode with the first kill only just being ever so slightly ahead which even then is just due to the attention to detail with the killer in that first kill with that first kill being the ne that's more important to the overall plot of the season but in saying that tho the second kill is just pure chaos in all of the best ways possible which is something that really does make it a really good kill with both of the episodes kill scenes being really creepy in their own right which is something that does make this episodes kills as good as they were ever going to be as by all rights this episodes kills had no right to be as good as they were ant yet for one reason or another the makers of this episode went above and beyond in making this episodes kills not only really gory but also really creepy as well and it is something that does make them both some really good kills in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is an episode that really is worth watching just for it's kills alone as they really are a true highlight of the episode with the episode also having plenty of good acting and the plot being one that is really intriguing as you don't know what's going to happen next thank god we won't have to wait that long as HBO is releasing the next episode this Friday online with it then airing on Sunday as usual which just goes to show you just how much faith HBO really does have in this show 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 post and with this only being my first impressions of the show but should I still be watching the show when the final does indeed air then I will then do a review of the show as a whole.

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