The Monkey Film Review

There are dozens of movies that are based off of Stephan King books out there but Hollywood has started to adapt his short stories as well. As the master of horror himself really does like to make normal things seem alot more scary then what they actually are so then with one of those films just being released and it's the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the film that really does try to make a toy monkey scary with the film in question being called simply just "The Monkey" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when two brothers discover that there toy monkey can kill people at random the two set out to destroy it once and for all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us inn 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's a plot that we really havn't seen before now with this films plot being oddly refreshing because of it and with this film being both written and directed by Osgood Perkins it's also a plot that's told really well with the film taking the time that it needs to set up it's plot and it's characters instead of just rushing through all of that something that would have been very easy to have done and while it is tempting to see where this film fits within the crazy of the Stephen King Universe what makes this films plot standout is the fact that it's not afraid to be this weird and goofy movie something that even the best Stephen King films are afraid to be and yet because of the fact that this films plot does involve a killer monkey it feels organic when this films plot does go into those weird moments which is something that does allow for this films plot to no only be unpredictable but also really fun as well with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Theo James as Hal and Bill Shelburn and Christian Convery as Young Hal and Bill. Also starring in this film is Tatiana Maslany as Lois Shelburn , Colin O'Brien as Petey Shelburn Jr. , Rohan Campbell as Ricky , Sarah Levy as Ida Zimmer , Adam Scott as Petey Shelburn Sr. , this films writer and director Osgood Perkins as Chip Zimmer , Tess Degenstein as Barbara , Danica Dreyer as Annie Wilkes , Laura Mennell as Hal's ex-wife and Elijah Wood as Ted Hammerman.

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 some really good performances with it being shocking that they didn't hire four sets of actors to play Hal and Bill and instead chose just to have the two actors with them both playing both roles and that is something that does work really well for this film as both of the actors manage to make both characters separate from one another and visually look different enough from one another that we the audience can easily tell them apart and while the rest of this films actors do indeed turn in some really good performances as well with the same thing also being true for Elijah Wood the best actor in this film is actually a tie between both Theo James and Christian Convery as while playing one character is hard enough there playing two characters at the same time with Theo playing the older version of the films main characters and Christian playing there younger counterparts which means that there jobs are now even harder as they keep there performances the same as each other to create continuity in the films performances something that both do with incredible ease with the acting that's in this film really being helped buy this films script as the the script for this film is just so good that all this films 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.

The characters in this film to be frank aren't the best characters however that is something that could more a fault with the short story then it is this film. As with a short story you don't really have the time needed to fully develop your characters and we know from Longlegs that Osgood Perkins can create some really good characters when he wants to and yet because of the fact that he's adapting a short story he just can't create good characters as none of this films characters stand out as being particularly interesting or scary with the same thing also being true for the films main heroes as well as even tho there character arc is interesting the characters themselves just aren't that fun to watch with the worst offender of this being Petey Shelburn Jr. who despite the fact that he's acted really well by Colin O'Brien just isn't that interesting of a character with him being Hal's son which is also something that seems to be his whole personality as there's nothing to his character outside of the fact that his father is trying to stop this evil monkey from killing people and that's really it and that's not enough to make him an interesting an while his arc with Hal does mirror Hal's arc with Bill it's not done in a way that makes the characters interesting with all of this films characters being nothing more then one dimensional characters which is something that does make sense as the short stories writer Stephan King really can't write characters that are two dimensional and as this film is based off of one of his own short stories it makes sense that his characters be just as bland and uninteresting in the film adaptation.

Not only is this film based off of the short story of the exact same name with the short story originally being published in 1980 as a booklet that was included in Gallery magazine it was then revised and published again five years later in the Stephan King shorts collection called Skeleton Crew. With according the short stories Wikipedia page the short story is very vastly different then the version that we got in this film as for starters there's no Bill or Randy in the story it's just Hal and Petey with Hal instead being an only child who still does discover the monkey but after some killings and accidents happed one of which involves Hals best friend Jimmy Hal hides the money in a dry wall only for it still to reappear years later with Hal and Petey having to drive to Crystal Lake to leaving to drown in the lake itself none of which is present in this film which is understandable as that original ending does sound rather lame and not cinematic but given that the short story did receive a revision in 1985 by Stephan King himself it is possible that all of the things tat are in the film were then added into the short story or it's possible that what's listen on the short stories Wikipedia page does one from the revised version of the story and not the original form of the story but lets hope that Stephan King did make the story better as it doesn't sound like it's going to be all that scary of a read even in it's original short story format.

In what could be seen as being a wise move this films director Osgood Perkins did choose to add in humor to the story. Which is something that does make alot of sense as this is after all a story about a killer toy monkey so by all rights this should have alot of jokes in it and while it was done to make it stand out from all f the super dark serious Stephan King adaptations out there it is something that given it's premise does make alot of sense as there's no way that you can treat a story like this seriously given that it's killer is a toy monkey with him even saying in an interview with Empire "I took liberties like a motherf*****. They [Atomic Monster] had a very serious script. Very serious. I felt it was too serious, and I told them: 'This doesn't work for me. The thing with this toy monkey is that the people around it all die in insane ways. So, I thought: Well, I'm an expert on that.' Both my parents died in insane, headline-making ways. I spent a lot of my life recovering from tragedy, feeling quite bad. It all seemed inherently unfair. You personalize the grief: 'Why is this happening to me?' But I'm older now and you realize this sh** happens to everyone. Everyone dies. Sometimes in their sleep, sometimes in truly insane ways, like I experienced. But everyone dies. And I thought maybe the best way to approach that insane notion is with a smile." which is something that does work for this film and while yes this film does have alot of humor in it none of it undercuts the tension of the scene rather it instead adds tension to the scene as we the audience know that something bad is going to happen and seeing the characters cope with that by telling joke is something that works really well in this film.

If last year was the year of really great horror films where almost every one that came out minus one or two was a great film. This year seems to be the complete opposite as so fay this year all of the horror films that have been released have firstly been films that see classic kids characters get turned into slasher villains but have also been really bad with this one actually being quite good and all of that comes down to the fact that they have a creative team that not only knows how to make a good movie but are also willing to take a chance and tell an original story with an original villain and not use a character that was created around one hundred years ago and while yes there is some merit to be found in those cheaply made films here it's also something that really does prove that if you want to see a good horror film then you don't look towards Sony or 20th Century Fox for example you look towards the more smaller studios as they are the ones that are taking chances on smaller scale films like this one which wouldn't be made by a major studio due to how out there it's main concept is but because of the fact that this film was made by a smaller studio it means that the makers of this film can go as out there with the film as they want to and still turn in a film that's as true to the director original vision as is humanly possible something that just wouldn't be possible as a major studio as they would have cut things out of this film and interfered with the making of this film in order to make it as marketable as is humanly possible.

Without giving to much away there are certain aspects of this film in regards to it's plot that could be seen as being predictable. This is something that does hurt the the characters arcs of both Hal and Bill as you know right away where this films is going with there characters arcs and not only does it go there it goes there the exact same way that you thought it would which despite it being a very well done arc in it's right does make it boring to watch as what's the point in watching something when you've not only worked out where it's going but the film also goes to that exact same place surely the wisest thing to do would be to turn it on it's head and make you think that it's going one way only for it instead to take a left turn and go another way that you never even thought of in the first place as that then also gives us the audience a reason to rewatch the film to see if we can spot any clues that might have been hidden in the film and yet by going to that exact conclusion it robs the film of any kind of replay ability factor as now we have no reason to rewatch or reply this movie as all of the films characters arcs are fairly easy to work out and this is something that could have been fixed with just a few rewrites of the script something that they did do as this final cut of the film wasn't the first time that they tried to get made and they even had a script in place when they brought on Osgood Perkins so the makers of this film aren't adverse to rewriting the films script which does make you wonder why they didn't do it here as they really could have fixed alot of the films issues if they did take the time to do a rewrite of this films script.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty one minuets. Which is a fairly solid running time for this film to have as this film really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho this film really doesn't use it's running time all that well as the film devotes a vast amount of it's running time just to setting up the plot when really the film should have sent no longer then ten minuets in setting up the rest of the film as this film doesn't have alot of running time to begin with and to rob it of even more time to tell it's story just by having a pointless prolog sequence that sets up the plot of the film means that now the film have to work twice as hard to get across all of the information that it needs to get across and still tell a good story in even less time then what it would have had if this film had cut down it's promo sequence by quite a bit and with the added running time the film would then be able to fully develop it's characters something that it desperately needed to do as the film doesn't rest on the plot being good as the films plot is as good as it's going to get rather it rests on the strength of the films characters which can't be that fully developed due to the fact that this film really is spending so much time of a prolog sequence that would have been more effective not only if it was spread out all throughout the film as this would make it more easier to digest but was also cut down to allow the other aspects of the film the time that they really do need to shine but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is a horror film that really does mean that I have 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 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 one of the films more better aspects. As this is where this film got to be alot more fun to watch as this films kills are so over the top and so goofy that you can't help but laugh at them and fall in love with them all at the same time and it's during this films kills that the makers of this film really did take advantage of the fact that this films killer is a toy monkey and because of that they can go as over the top and as goofy with the kills as they want to as by proxy having a killer toy monkey is a funny idea and it would be really foolish of the makers of this film to not take advantage of that when it came to this films kills with it also being really hard to say just what exactly the best kill of this film even was as by rights they could all make a claim for that title as all of this films kills are just that good with the film alone being worth watching just to see just how over the top and how goofy looking alot of this films kills really are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall out of all the horror films that have been released this year thus far this film is easily the best of the bunch but given just how bad alot of those other horror films where that's not exactly a high bar to reach but credit where it's due this film knows what kind of film it is and isn't afraid to be nothing then that with this film also having some really good acting in it something that alot of those other horror just didn't have 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 7.5 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 of all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Popeye's Revenge Film Review

Why is it now a thing for beloved kids characters that have only just entered the public domain to get turned into slasher villains. As now we have yet another slasher film that has a beloved kids cartoon character as it's main villain and just like with both The Mouse Trap and Mouse Of Horrors this one is also the first of at least three maybe even more movies at least two more of which are due out this year and both of which have Popeye as the main villain and so the join me as I review the film that really should have eaten more spinach with the film in question being called simply just "Popeye's Revenge" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a group of friends arrive to renovate a friends house they find themselves being stalked by mysterious person dressed in a sailors uniform. 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 rather bland as it just comes comes across as being every single eighties slasher summer film plot rolled into run with a dose of the The Evil Dead's setting thrown into it with nothing new or interesting added to it which is something that does make sense as lets be honest here the main focus and selling point of these films is never going to be the plot it's going to be seeing a beloved kids cartoon character be the villain of the film but even then you still need to have a decent enough plot to keep viewers interested in your film and when you don't have all you have is a bland selling point that thanks to other similar films like this one is becoming more and more generic by the film and as such these types of films really do need to up there game when it comes to there plots say what you will about the Blood And Honey films but at least they gave some fresh new plots where as this films plot is nothing more then generic with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Emily Mogilner as Tara , Connor Powles as Dylan , Danielle Ronald as Donna and Bruno Cryan as Nick. Also starring in this film is Atlanta Moreno as Sky , Karolina Ugrenyuk as Kathy , Fyn Phoenixx as Max , Kyle Jordan as Alan , Eva Ray as Cherry , Danielle Scott as Mia , Amanda Jane York as Lora , Oliver Mason as George , Kathi DeCouto as Jane , Paul Frost as A Fisherman , Kelly Rian Sanson as Olive Oyl and Steven Murphy as Popeye.

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 about as bad as you'd expect from one of these films. As this films acting whilst it is alot more better then the acting in Mickey's Mouse Hunt is still pretty bad as while it is clear as day that alot of this films actors are indeed trying to turn in a good performance alot of this films actors just feel lost with that mainly being due to the fact that this films director William Stead quite clearly has no idea just how to get a good performance out of his actors with that being something that does hold the acting acting back with his of talking to his actors to give them a good performance mainly coming from the fact that he's only directed two feature films with the rest of his filmography being made up of short films that he's directed and working in other film departments with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films 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 is something that really does hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Not only is this film basically copying the plot of quite literally alot of the summer camp slasher movies from the nineteen eighties. It's also just straight up copying the opening of Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey by having the origin of the killer be told in poorly done animation with a narrator that sounds bored this right here is one the major issues with this film because there is nothing original about this film for the most part heck even the fact that the killer is believe to have been burnt alive could also be seen as copying the original of Freddy Krueger even down to both characters having actually committed the crimes that got them murdered the only difference being that Popeye or Johnny as his real name is meant to be was just a kid who didn't know his own strength and that's really it and that's not enough as you have who is perhaps the worlds most famous sailor and you give him an origin that was done better in 1984 and is was told alot better in 2023 and all of this just screams of the makers of this film just cashing in on what's popular and not bothering to give there villain an origin that's unique to him Popeye is meant to be a sailor so have his origin be something that's related to that and tell it in a way that's unique to your film and not something that was ripped off of a film that whilst it was still bad was still alot more better then this film was since as things stand this film is trying to hard to copy a bunch of ideas from other horror films without understanding what it was that made them so popular in the first place.

Whilst Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey did indeed start of the trend of turning popular kids characters into slasher film villains. With that film you could at least tell that the makers of that film were at least trying to make a decent film and while they may not have succeeded in there task you could see there passion for the film on screen where as here it just felt all of the people that where making this film hadn't even seen a Popeye cartoon let alone read one of the comics as there's no passion for this character or for this film for that matter seen in this film an the reason as to why i'm being so hard on these films is because I want them to be better and part of that does include showing some level of passion for the characters and your film as here it just comes across as the makers of this film saw that Popeye had entered the public domain and saw that these types of films where making some small amounts of money and saw a way to ern some quick money easily and that's really it as everything about this film just scream generic and while they do credit for at least trying to explain why Popeye has some large biceps and having a spinach reference near the end of the movie those feel like that they were included to appease the people who love the Popeye character when all you have to do is make an actually good and scary film with a unique premise and the fans of that character would still be somewhat pleased but because they went the easy route and didn't bother to put in the actual work all we ended up with is a film that is just generic and will be forgotten about by both the people who love the Popeye character and by the people who love horror films within the end of the week.

If the makers of this film really wanted to do something new and different but still keep Popeye as the main villain. Then what they really should have done is have Bluto be in the movie and not only that but also have him be one of the hero characters in the movie as we are so used to seeing him be the bad guy it would make it more fun to see the roles reversed and that would at least then give the movie a reason for existing but they don't do that instead they have it so that whenever there's fog around Popeye is nearby which is great for atmosphere but it makes the movie less fun to watch and if there's anything that this movie shouldn't be is boring as you have a character who is a larger then live sailor being your main villain and yet the film plays in all completely straight which again is something that these films tend to do when leaning into the ridiculousness of it all would not only make your film alot more better then what it actually is but it would also make this film alot more fun to watch as well and this is something that hopefully the makers of Shiver Me Timbers do as Popeye is a character where you can get away with having over the top and funny moments in your movie and in your kills as Popeye is by nature an over the top and funny character and by playing it straight all your doing is making your film alot less fun to watch with thus being something that the makers of The Mean One knew to do as yes that film was a Grinch based horror film but it also knew to play moments for laughs as well as The Grinch is also a comedy character.

If you thought that Popeye was the only character from the Popeye comics strips and shorts to appear in this movie then you'd be wrong. As even tho in the movie he only goes by Olive the girl that's actually helping him is credited in the movies end credits as being none other then Olive Oyl with this films version of her not being Popeye's lover interested but instead being his equally twisted sister which is something that they really never hint at being the case at all during the movies animated prolog with it only being mentioned by Olive herself during the films third act which at that point in time it's two little to late with that plot twist not even playing a part in the movies plot and Olive herself just comes across as being a less interesting version of The Little Pale Girl from the Terrifier movies only not funny and less interesting but to this films credit they also don't go the obvious route with the character either by making her a really annoying love interest for Popeye which is something that they very easily could have done but at the same time tho if your going to have this big twist of her being Popeye's sister then at least hint at it a few times throughout the movie and heck you could even say that Popeye was his parents second child and yet all they do is have one line near the start of the movie where even then that line of dialog could literally mean that he's talking to anyone as it's not something that means that he not only has a sister but is also currently talking to her either.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and nineteen minuets and forty four seconds. Which is a solid running time for this film to have as this film really does have the right mount of plot there to cover it's running time but at the same time tho while the film does indeed devote alot of it's running time to Popeye and his backstory we get nothing for the rest of the characters with the characters that we want to see survive this movie being nothing more then the stereotypical characters that we see in all eighties summer camp slasher movies and having just as much dimension to them as well which is something that does make sense as the main selling point of this film is seeing Popeye being turned into a slasher villain but at the same time you still need to have interesting and likable characters that you actually want to see survive until the very end of this movie and yet because of the fact that the makers of this put alot more effort into making Popeye at least somewhat interesting the rest of this films characters just come as being bland , boring and forgettable characters that have been done better in other and better slasher movies and even Popeye himself isn't really given all that much dimension to him as while he does have a motive for wanting to get revenge on the PARENTS that killed him he ha no reason to go after the kids as they did nothing to him at least with Freddy Krueger we found out in hi debut movie why he's attacking the kids and not the adults but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty the best part of the film. As that's where the film gets to be somewhat entertaining with the film even making use of Popeye being a sailor by having him not only use an anchor alot of the time but also carry it around with him as well and it's during this films kills that we get to see just how good the gore effects where in this film with it being clear as day that alot of the films budget went into creating some really good gore effects which was money well spent as they do make the films kills alot better with the best kill in the whole entire movie bar none being when Popeye straight up rips out a persons spline and then rips there head off which was just such an over the top the kill that it makes you wonder why the rest of this films kills weren't as over the top and creative as alot of them where just Popeye strangling people until there eyes popped out of there head and that's really it and while that does lead to some really creative looking visuals and is indeed a really creative idea for a kill in it's own right you still need to have more a verity of fun kills in it as well and while this film does indeed have it's fair share of fun kills those are in the minority and are not the majority with the rest of this films kills despite them being really fun kills in there own right just aren't as fun as they really could have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is a trend that really does need to die down as it's getting old fast and this movie and Mouse Of Horrors is evidence of that as while this movie is at the very least a little bit better then Mouse Of Horrors it's still a really bad move in it's own right and it's one that will be forgotten about by alot of people who love both horror films and Popeye as well as it's just that bad of a film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the i've talked about all of he good and as well as all of the bad things that are in his very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in his 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.

Heart Eyes Film SPOILER FREE Film Review

For some rather strange reason even tho it's very common for there to be a holiday themed slasher movie Valentines Day really doesn't have that many. With there really only being a few that including this film that come to mood right now which doesn't make much sense as there so much that you could do with the holiday and put a slasher spin on it and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE review the film that joins the ever short list of valentines day themed slasher movies with the film in question being called simply just "Heart Eyes" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when the yearly heart eyes killer begins his new attacks in a new town it's up to a young pitch designer to try and survive these latest attacks before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / resented 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 this films plot whist it does tread on some horror cliches does mostly seem fresh and different with this kind of plot not really being told before at the very least not in the horror genre and because of that is the fact that this films plot does come across as being new and refreshing even tho there some character tropes in this film that whilst they aren't in horror films are oddly in romance films which while they might seem fun for fans of those film for fans of horror films they don't quite work with the plot of this film in it's own unique way being a spoof of romance films only with a slasher twist to them and while this film plot really could have been alot more better in other places and given that this film is by the writer of Freaky and he Happy Death Day films is does continue the trend of telling fresh stories by putting a horror twist on what we the audience think are very mundane things 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 Olivia Holt as Ally McCabe , Mason Gooding as Jay Simmons and Gigi Zumbado as Monica. Also starring in this film is Michaela Watkins as Crystal Cane , Final Destination and Casper star Devon Sawa as Det. Zeke Hobbs , Power Rangers Dino Thunder star Latham Gaines as Nico , Chris Parker as Tommy , Yoson An as David Shaw and The Fast & The Furious franchise star Jordana Brewster as Det. Jeanette Shaw. 

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as the film does have some really talented actors in it and all of whom do also turn in some really good performances in it as well with it really being hard to say just who turned into the best performance as all of this films actors get a chance to not only show of the more dramatic side of there characters but to also get to cut loose a little bit and remind us all that they can also be some really funny actors and while yes this film does have some really good acting in it the film does also sadly have some really bad acting in it with the likes of Michaela Watkins and Yoson An just not being that good of an actor with there performances coming across as being really wooden and while that is something that makes sense for Michaela Watkins as her role in the film is basically that of a minor character it's not something that makes for Yoson An's character who it could be argued is one of the films lead characters 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 really have to do is just 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.

The key to making any film work is it's characters with the characters in this film being really well done. With this films characters being spoofs of the types of characters that you'd see in made for TV romance movies only now it's played up not only for laughs to highlight the films comedy aspect but also for the scare factor as well as this films characters while they do come across as being really underdeveloped characters that don't have all that much going for them with Ally for example being someone who works at an Ad agency and Mason Gooding's character being someone that's brought in to help her out which is pretty much the plot line for any made for TV romance film ever made but the issue is tho is that there's not much to there characters in the first place which granted might be the point of the film but if your going to be spoofing these kinds of romance movies then you might as well show them how to do these types of character right by not only giving them flaws and faults to overcome during the course of the film but something that can also make them grow as people something that this film does fail to do as it's more interested in spoofing the romance genre then it is in actually creating good characters that could stand on there own and while spoofing genre's is something that this films co-writer and producer Christopher Landon has done before with both Freaky and the happy Death Day films those films at least had characters that you remember after the film is finished where as with this film it's the opposite that's true.

As was mentioned at the very start f this review this film does indeed join what could be a very small list of films to based around Valentines Day or love in general as we do have My Bloody Valentine and it's remake it could be argued that Lisa Frankenstein is a valentines day themed horror movie as well. It really is shocking that the list for these types of movies is so small when this film really does prove that there's so much that you can do with a Valentines Day setting just by spoofing romance movies alone as those movies are just begging to be spoofed and even if you didn't want to go that route then you could go and make a straight forward slasher film only now you make the romance aspect of it just as interesting if not more interesting then then horror aspect of it as that again would be something that us the audience really haven't seen before now and it would therefore thus be giving us something new to both genres which is something nobody would want as all that would in the long run is make not only your film look bad but it also wouldn't really do anything for either genre either and heck even the makers of this film do show a great deal of love and respect for the romance genre by not only spoofing it but also getting details like the characters having high paying jobs and one of them usually the female main character being a workaholic who is newly single and that is something that you'd really only do if you had a great deal of respect for both of these genre's of film.

Even tho this is film is a romance film it's oddly enough that aspect of the film that does let the film down by quite a bit. As not only do neither of the actors have any chemistry with each other with them coming across as ore being best friends or just friends in general then they do love interests and there romance is one of the things that's really key into making this film work as you have ti believe in there romance in order to believe that there in any real danger and the second that you don't believe in their romance then the whole film starts to fall in on it's self and as such more effort really should have gone into not only casting characters that do have that kind of chemistry with each other and by creating a more believable romance as either or both really would have gone a long way into making this film work and not having to just rely on the fact that you got one of the actors from the two latest Scream movies to star in the leading role in this movie as that's just not good enough as this is a film that's going to have two sets of audiences to please those being the horror fans and the romance fans and in this case you can't please one without not pleasing the other with this film coming across more like that it's trying to please more of the horror audience by giving more of the things that they love which is fine but at the same time it's also not please the fans of romance films by giving us that more believable romance in the first place.

Given that this is a romantic horror comedy you would expect the comedy in this film to be rather on the weak side much like the romance part of it. However it's actually the opposite that's true with this film having alot of genuinely funny laugh out loud moments in it all of which not only work and land really hard but they also feel like the kinds of jokes that that character would make with all of the films best jokes being the ones that catch you off guard rather then the ones that are spoofing romance films as the ones that catch you of guard are ones that you don't really see coming where as you can see the kinds of jokes that are spoofing romance films coming a mile away and while yes those kinds of jokes are funny as well the best kind of joke at the very least for this film is the ones that you don't see coming as there just these little moments where nobody would have thought to put a joke in there and because of that when they do tell a joke it's more often then not really funny with it actually helping that none of this films jokes undercut the tension of the scene that there in as it could be argued that the film itself is meant to be seen as more of a comedy then it is a romance film as there are alot more effort put into creating these really funny jokes that your going to remember alot more then the romance part of the film as this films jokes are not only more funny but are also alot more memorable then this films very poorly done romance is.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty seven minuets and forty six seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for these types of films to have with it really being helped by the fact that this film really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time however with all of that being said tho this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as it doesn't flesh out either it's characters , plot or romance for that matter all of which would have gone a long way into making this film alot more better then what it already is and while this film is alot more entertaining then Captain America: Brave New World is that film at least took the time to develop some of it's characters where as none of this films characters get any kind of development and heck we don't even get to find out that much about any of the films characters which fair enough might be the joke of the film as we also don't get to find out all that much about the lead character in bad made for TV romance films either but those films have the excuse of being made on a small budget and have a very small amount of time to actually make them where as this film have none of those excuses and so the makers of this film really could have taken as much time as they really needed in order to fully flesh out it's characters , plot ad romance a bit more but I really will admit that this film really does gave some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as then as is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about all of the kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this film having alot of really fun and actually gory kills which was actually very surprising as you don't really expect a horror film that's being released by a major studio in this case Sony Pictures to have alot of really gory kills in it and yet that's exactly what we got in this film and while it's impossible to spoil what the best kill of the movie is just because of the fact it really is something that needs to be seen to be believed what I can say is that the best kill of this movie happens very early in the film like it's the third kill of the movie and it's one that is so visceral that you really need to see this movie just for that kill alone with it being safe to predict that should this film get featured on Dead Meat's Kill Count next year that the kill in question would be a seriously strong contender for there best kill of the movie something that alot of the films kills can also lay claim to as alot of them are just that good which is something that you very rarely if ever see in a slasher movie let alone in a horror movie and yet it's something that in this film with this films kills really being helped that pretty much almost all of them are kills that we the audience really haven't seen before in other slasher movies which is something that really does make the kills in this film well and truly standout because of it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if you have any plans for Valentines Day go and take whomever you are with to go and see this movie as both of you will have a really good time with this film as it's one that both fans of romance films and horror films can very easily watch and enjoy together as well in my freaking opinion 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 an 8.5 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.

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.