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.
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