Popeye Returns Film Review

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

The plot of this film is eight years after the events of the of the first film Popeye starts targeting the one lone survivor from the first film whilst also being hunted down himself by a group of government army men who want to keep him locked up. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad. Look to be real this films plot is just so bad as even tho it is a very extremely thin plot alot of the time it does feel like that the film doesn't have a plot to begin with with it feeling like the film is just a bunch of scenes loosely tied together. Popeye's Revenge for all of it's faults at the very least had a plot yes granted it was a bad plot but it was still a plot with a beginning , a middle and an end here we barely get a beginning before the film ends which makes it more baffling as to why the makers of this film decided to stretch this thin plot over THREE films when doing it in just one film would have worked all the more better, there is nothing redeemable about this films plot as it is a very lazy plot that the makers of this film should feel ashamed about and while yes granted these B movie horror films never have te best of plots to them in the first place but they still will nine out of ten have a plot to begin with and when this film can't even do that right then it right away is a huge red flag as now we the audience have no reason to get invested in the films plot as the makers of the film themselves aren't even bothering to make it good in the first place with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this film is Ashley Bedford as Dave , Jodie Bennet as Milly , Fitim DeStena as Dylan and Harriet Hope as Jen. Also starring in this film is Jack Hyde as Mendoza , Celine Mandy Kosch as Mindy , Olivia Lennox as Alice , Bannister Doll Heist star Christopher Morley as O'Brien , Skullhunter star Steven Murphy as Popeye , Ever After star Lara Sas as Cassie , Liz Stef as June and Jenna Wilson as Alina.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad. Again you do expect these types of films to have bad acting in them as the main reason to watch these films is never the acting it's always what they are going to be with the cartoon character that they are turning into the main villain and that's that which is fair enough but there still needs to be some amount of effort put into the acting to make it worth while as while yes alot of this films actors are indeed trying to turn in a good performance they are let down by poor directing from this films editor and director William Stead with the only actor who really can't take any blame as it is her first proper acting job being Celine Mandy Kosch. With the best actor in this film being Steven Murphy as Popeye as he is the only actor reprising his role from Popeye's Revenge therefor he does have a good grip on how best to perform as this character which is a skill that does put to great use in this film with him having a certain charm about him does make you wonder what it is that this character can really do which is something that really does shine through in his final performance. With the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

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

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

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

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

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and eight minuets and twelve seconds. Which for any film let alone one of these low budget horror films is such a short amount of running tike for the film to have and given the fact that the film does send more time on setting up things for the third and fourth films then it does in actually telling it's own story altho in saying this maybe the film being this short is a blessing in the disguise as it does mean that we get to be out of this film in alot less time but this film still should a longer running time just to flesh out alot of its own ideas and alot of it's characters and not just have them pushed to the side to set up the other two films with this film no even having enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. With the film not even using what little running time that it already has very wisely as the film doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot as the plot of the film as very very wafer thin at best with it feeling more like the plot to someones bad fanfiction only now it's the plot of a film and what's worse is the fact that if this film did deed dedicate more time to its plot and fully developed it then it could have worked but its made clear as day that the makers of this film cared about giving us pointless flash back scenes that they did about giving us a fully developed plot. This is something that does also effect the films character development as due to the fact that the films opening flashback to the previous film eats up a good three to five minuets and the fac that we get a pointless flashback to the eighties which eats up five minuets on its own then this films character are not only fighting for screen time due to there being far to many characters for a film this long to have in the first place but it does also mean that none of them can get any sort of character development with the makers of this film making it perfectly clear that they are more interested in setting up the sequels instead of giving us well thought out and developed character but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad. It's in the films kill where we really do get to see just how small that this films budget really was as they all commit that single biggest sin that any slasher film can commit when it comes to there kills and that's the fact that alot of this films kills happen OFF SCREEN we will see Popeye raise a weapon to kill people with but then the film cuts away just as he is about to land the finishing blow which is something that would be fine for one or two kills but no all of this films kills are like. Heck this happens to so often that the film can't even have a best kill because we never get to see what it is that kills them off in the first place and yet even alot of the really bad horror films still let us see what it is that kills of there victims granted this might be the case because of the fact that the other two films were being made at the same time but if your going to be making a slasher film then you need to show us the kills that is slasher film making 101 with the closest thing to a kill that we actually see being in the opening scene where a girl gets her head trampled by Popeye which is a cool kill but even that one we don't get to see all that much of and therefor we really aren't scared for the rest of the film with the rest of the films kills being just as bad as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it really is telling when the best live action filmed version of Popeye the one from 1980 never got a sequel and yet one of the many Popeye horror films not only got a bad sequel but is also getting two other films with this film not really does a good job of getting you excited of the third film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 0 out of 10 from me.

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

Shiver Me Timbers 2025 Film Review

For some weird reason young horror filmmakers are obsessed with turning Popeye into a slasher villain as this is now the third slasher film to be released this year that has Popeye as the main villain. With this hopefully being the final one this year as out of all three that have been released so far only one of them was actually good and hint it's not this one with this one being the only one that I was actively looking forward to as I hadn't heard of any of the others and so then join me as I review the film that turns Olive Oyl into a goth for literally no reason whatsoever with the film in question being called simply just "Shiver Me Timbers" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when her and her friends go camping to see a comet flying by Olive and her friends suddenly find themselves being stalked by a sailor who is bent on killing 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 not tat bad but at the same time tho this films plot isn't all that good either as it's just so generic with the plot of the film basically being the same plot as quite literally any eighties slasher film that's set at a summer camp only remove the fact that there not going there for the summer and you'd basically have the plot of this film heck Popeye The Slayer Man had a better plot then this film did as the plot of that film at least had thought and effort put into it and while there is some effort put into the plot of this film it's something that just doesn't work as it's something that we've all seen done better in other and better movies with it once again becoming very clear that the makers of this film only put alot of effort into making sure that you know that a beloved kids character is the main villain when what they should have done is put just as much if not more effort into giving us a plot that not only suits the Popeye character but is also new and different as well with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and not really being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Amy Mackie as Olive Oyl , Murdo Adams as Skits and Stephen Corrall as Lt. Lang. Also starring in this film is Paul Dewdney as Homeless George , Ross Dillon as Trent , Keith Hewitt as Detective Montgomery , Yu Heng Li as Monique , Seb Lord as Spike , this film writer , editor , one of this films producers and this films director Paul Stephen Mann as Detective Zanaletto , Donnamarie McCusker as A Mother , Joel McDade as Stevie , Ty Moore as Caller Wes , Brendan Nelson as Castor Oyl , Niamh Parrington as Cylinda , Leona Roberts as Lizzy , John Ryder as The Narrator and DJ Bruce , one of this films producers Alastair Statham as Detective Holmes , Alexa Wright as The Little Girl , David Hallows as Skinny Popeye and Tony Greer 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 it to be. As the acting in one of thee films is never that good and will never be that good and that is something that does sadly continue with this film as well as all of this films actors are a bunch of unknown actors and so it would have been foolish of anyone watching this movie to expect good pr perhaps even great performances out of them with this films actors giving us performances that while there not that bad there just passable at best which to be fair is alot better then alot of the acting that's usually found in these types of films with it also being made perfectly clear that this films writer , editor , one of this films producers and director Paul Stephen Mann not only doesn't know how to direct to his actors and get the best performance out of them as he possibly could have done or that he put alot more focus on the fact that Popeye is the main killer of the film and so just did one take of every single scene of the movie as that's what this films acting feels like it feels like the kind of acting that you'd get on the first take of any scene 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 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.

To say that this films characters are just the bogstandard slasher characters would be a huge understatement. As there really is nothing to any of this films characters including the muscle bound version of Popeye as all of the kids have the same personalities that were present in alot of summer camp slasher eighties movies with nothing new added to them outside of the fact that the makers of this film chose to make Olive Oyl a goth for literally no reason whatsoever with this being made when you take into account that none of this films characters outside of the obvious Popeye and Olive Oyl have nothing that make them stand out and feel unique to each other so much so that you could literally swap alot of the characters lines around and give them to other characters in this film and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference as that's just how badly written this film and it's characters are and while it does somewhat make sense that the makers of this film wouldn't spend alot of time developing these characters as the main star of the film is obviously going to be Popeye you still have to write them well and make us the audience care for them as if you don't do that then it means nothing when they do get killed off as us the audiences were never given a reason to care or even like these characters for that matter and this is something that alot of these types of films just don't seem to understand as there more focused on making money quick then they are in creating something that people will actually like and that is something that does more damage not only to there films but to this film as well.

Tog vie this film at the vert least some form of credit it does do something that none of the other Popeye horror films have done and that's actually use one of the titles of one of the original Popeye short films as the main title for your movie. Which to be a fair is a pretty good move as it does show that the makers of this film do have some understanding of what kind of film that there making so much so that they actually do in some comedic moments in this film not even to make it a straight forward horror comedy but enough to make sure that us the audience know that they know what kind of film that there making and that there just going to have fun with it sadly tho none of there jokes are actually funny as all alot of them are are just references to other and better horror movies with the movie even ending on a reference to the post credits scene from the 2013 remake of Evil Dead which just felt weird and out of place with there only being one laugh out loud intentionally funny joke as when we first the comet head towards earth it's this massive thing only for it to be revealed that it's the size of a pebble when it lands in a pre-muscular Popeye's pipe with there being another moment later on in the movie that whilst it was funny it's something that clearly wasn't to be funny as for one of the kills in the film Popeye kills an old man except all you see of the kill is the characters shadows just doing the same motion over and over again while the same sound effect plays over it which was just something that was so bad to see that it was funny to watch because of how bad that it was in the first place.

While this film does get alot of credit for also using a lesser known Popeye character in Castor Oyl the film still doesn't take full advantage of the fact that it's a horror film based on Popeye. With there being none of the other Popeye characters outside of Popeye , Olive and Castor that appear in this film as while the film does hint at the start of the movie that the pre-muscular Popeye is going to be Pappy they quickly get rid of that and while the film does have a character who does look like Bluto the film very quickly kills him off with the character not even being called Bluto with the one thing that would have made all of these Popeye horror films all the more better would have been if they did use the other characters from Popeye and even use the Sweet Heaven name as the main location as that then would allow you to put a horror spin on more then just the most well known character of the bunch and it would have been funny to see Wimpy still just eating a cheeseburger even when all of the characters are being killed which in something like Popeye's Revenge wouldn't have worked as they were playing the story straight but here it would have worked due to the films more comedic and light hearted nature and yet they don't do any of that as they instead play it safe just by having the most well known character in this case Popeye be the main villain which is great to clicks on the internet but it also makes the film alot less fun to watch because of it when if you did include more things from the lore of Popeye as they don't even include a scene with him eating a can of Spinach it would also show that the makers of this film not only knew what kind of film that that there making but that they knew that it was going to be bad film and just decided to have with it anyway.

For some strange reason the makers of this film chose to make Olive into a goth character which is just something that doesn't fit not only the original character but also this films version of her. As they don't really give a reason as to why she is the way that she is and why she dresses the way that she dresses outside of the fact that she's the smart one of the family and that's really it and that's not really enough to justify this change and heck all you'd need to do to justify this change is have one dialog where she says that feels like an outsider and that's why she dresses like she's a goth and heck this would even give her some form of connection to this film take on Popeye who goes from being a sweet old man just looking to do a spot of fishing to being mutated into this killing machine but for one reason or another the makes of this film chose not to put in any actual effort when it comes to explaining why the characters are the way that they are outside of Popeye as even tho the previous Popeye film showed that you can have all of the effort put into making sure that people know that this beloved cartoon character is your main villain and still have a good film with decently written character just by giving them just as much time and attention as your main lead gets and yet here the makers of this film only half did that as while characters like Olive and Popeye get some attention and to a lesser extent Castor does as well but none of the others do and what little attention the Oyl siblings get doesn't tell us much about there character and who they are as people with this being made all the more worse when you take into account that Olive is meant to e this films final girl.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirteen minuets and twenty nine seconds. Which even for one of these horror films which usually clock in at around one hour and thirty minuets is such a short amount of time as this film really does have more then plot there to cover not only it's current running time but also a slightly longer one as well as the film spends way two much on time on Popeye before he starts killing people with the first kill not happening until the thirty to thirty five minuet mark which given just how short that this film is the film needed to get to the kills by no longer then the ten minuet mark but for some strange reason the makers of this film chose not to use it's running time all that wisely be developing it's characters and instead just giving us a long and pointless scene with them dancing for literally no reason whatsoever which wouldn't be a bad thing if this film was one hour and thirty minuets as then you could get some character development out of it by having the characters just talking to whoever there dancing with at the time but because of the fact that the film isn't that long it makes that incredibly long and pointless sequence feel all the more pointless as that's screen time that could have been better spent by getting to the films kills alot quicker which is something that this film really did need to do and it's something that this films editor really should have done but given the fact that he was also the director , the writer and one of the producers it means that we are stuck with a pointless dancing that does nothing for the characters as it tells us nothing about who these characters are as people but I really will admit that this film really does have some really bad pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher 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 true highlight of the film. Not only because alot of them are really good and really entertaining but because of the fact that the one with the old man is just so bad that's laughable which really did make the film alot more entertaining to watch in the first place with this film having alot of really impressive kills that do take advantage of the fact that Popeye is meant to be super strong and because of that we get kills where het quite literally punches a person so hard that there head explodes upon impact with alot of this films kills being really over the top and goofy and while the best kill of the movie does oddly enough go to Popeye himself because of the fact that it's a really over the top and goofy kill as during the final fight with Olive she gets out what can only best be described as a souped-up chainsaw and just slashes at him which was fun to see in this film but at the same time tho what does let alot of this films kills down by quite alot is the fact that they do rely far to much on CGI blood which wouldn't be a bad thing if it wasn't all that noticeable but no it's something that you notice from the very first time that they use it and it's something that does make all of these fun and cool kills somehow seem less fun and less cool and more fake to watch in this very film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall out of the three Popeye horror films that are out there this is the most average one as while it's not as good as Popeye The Slayer Man was it's also not as bad as Popeye's Revenge was as there is some effort to make this film good and watchable it just has a few issues that could have been fixed with a longer running time and that's really 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 thigs that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really that does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 4.5 out 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 , the official Popeye fandom wiki page 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 The Slayer Man Film Review

Every so often when you watch one of these horror movies when the main focus was clearly on the fact that the film has a beloved kids TV character as it's main villain you do sometimes find a diamond in the rough. With the film that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today being one such a film purely due to the fact that it actually has alot of effort put into it that actually make it look like a movie and not the pilot of a TV show and then join me as I review the film that has a pretty clever title with the film in question being called simply just "Popeye The Slayer Man" enjoy.

The plot of this film is a group of teenagers sneak into an old abandoned building that's due to be torn down only to find themselves haunted and hunted down by a mysterious sailor man. 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 alot better then what it really had any right to be as this films plot is actually fresh and different with this films plot also tieing into the lore of Popeye The Sailor Man as well which was a nice thing as it shows that the makers of this film know the character that there adapting for this film and are willing to try and do something different instead of just giving the film the typical summer camp or mysterious house in the woods setting that alot of these films seem to go with where as here because of the fact that the have the kids searching a Spinach factory and have Popeye stalk them down in that building it does serve as a nice nod and a wink to the character with this films plot being alot of fun to watch where as with alot of these horror films the plot is usually a chore to sit through as it's something that you've seen been done better in other horror movies where as here because of the fact that this films plot is so new and different it forces you to pay attention alot more with the plot of the film being all the more because of it 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 Sarah Nicklin as Adrienne , Angela Relucio as Margot and Elena Juliano as Olivia. Also starring in this film is Marie-Louise Boisnier as Lisa , Mabel Thomas as Katie , Scott Swope as Angus , Steven McCormack as Joey , Sean Michael Conway as Dexter , Doug Decker as Bernie , Jeff Thomas as Seth , Richard Lounello as Lex , Joel Frometa as Miguel , Nathan Todaro as Detective Caruso , Amanda Catapano as A Police Officer , Clayton Turner as Jesse , Paul Konye as Terry , Christian Elan Ortiz as Vincent and Jason Robert Stephens as The Sailor Man.

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. Which is to expected from a horror film like this but at the same time tho this films acting isn't all that good as while the acting that we got in this film was easily ten times better then the acting in Goldilocks And The Three Bears: Death And Porridge that's not exactly a high bar to reach as after all this films actors are all mostly unknown actors still which means that it would have been foolish to expect good or even great acting from them and while this films acting would be seen as being passable at best in other and better films here tho since this sub genre of horror films typically has some really bad acting in it having acting that could be seen as being passable at best suddenly looks a lot more better then what it really could have been with the best actor in this film being Jason Robert Stephens as The Sailor Man who has the physicality needed for the role but at the same time tho he is a bit to tall to be playing Popeye but given that all of these films like to make the characters that there adapting really tall his performance in this film really does oddly work out really well with the acting that's in this film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good as that all this films actors really gave to do is just say the lines as they are written ad a good performance really will come out of them more naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Even tho this film does feature a nod to Olive Oyl in newspaper clippings the film doesn't go the typical route by having the character of Olivia be her. Which is something that they very easily could have done as the actor that they got to play Olivia Elena Juliano does look somewhat like the comic strip version of the character and while the film does start to heavily imply that she is her they right away get rid of it by having them be two completely different characters that just so happen to share the same first name which was refreshing to see as it not only gives us a good way to include the character in this film but it also means that should the film get a sequel which judging by how this ends they much could do and it would be interesting to see just what they do with her character as well but at the same time it does feel odd seeing a Popeye movie and not having any of the Popeye supporting cast of a characters in the movie as there's Bluto and there's no Wimpy either it's literally just Popeye on his own which does make sense given this films small budget but at the same time tho if your going to go out of your way to reference Olive Oyl then why not include some of the characters in creative ways as well as they to would most likely be copyright free now thanks to them being apart of the Popeye cast of characters and it would have made this film stand out as alot of the other Popeye horror films are just sticking to Popeye and maybe Olive Oyl and that's really it and yet while they don't outright say if Olive Oyl is alive or not it does now mean that she and other Popeye supporting characters are now free to appear in a future sequel should this film receive one. 

Unlike alot of these horror films which just seem to use the typical summer camp or house in the woods setting seen in alot of classic eighties slasher films. This film actually dares to be different by being set in a factory which does allow for the makers of this film to get more creative with there camera shots and be more creative when it comes to things like lighting and the films kills something that just isn't all that possible all that much when your filming outside as then your at the mercy of the weather which can ruin your lighting very easily and yet the very fact that the makers of this film chose to go with a different location shows that there more willing to do the work and do something creative instead of relying on what's worked in the past and hoping that it'll work again without realizing what it was that made those original settings work so well in the first place where as here because of the fact that a factory setting really hasn't been used all that often in other horror movies it is something that makes this film stand out all the more because of it as while it's clear that alot of other horror film like this one put more effort into the fact that the killer is a beloved childrens character and nothing else here the makers of this film go to just as much effort into making the location not only feel lived in and grimy but also feel like a character in it it's own right which is something that is not really done all that much in not only horror films but in films in general and it's something that really does help to make the setting of any film feel alot more real then what it actually is.

The film does kind of do something with both the Olivia and the Popeye characters that might not work and might make the people who really do love the Popeye character angry. With that being that they make Popeye and Olivia brother and sister with it being implied that Olive Oyl is there mother which is something that isn't really confirmed in the film but there is a scene where Olivia does call Popeye brother not long after he's held a picture of Olive Oyl which is something that doesn't really work as everybody and there Grandma knows that Olive Oyl and Popeye are boyfriend and girlfriend and not brother and mother so unless your going to be doing something that's really radical in any future installment that makes this change to the characters make sense then it's a wonder as to why it was included in this film as it's not something that impacts the films plot in anyway whatsoever as you very easily could have removed that connection and nothing about the plot of the film would have been changed because of it and heck it could even be argued that having that change in the film makes Olive look like a bad person as she's now willingly left her son who was eating this contaminated spinach that was forcing him to do these heinous crimes in the first place and has now left her own daughter to fend for herself for so many years when it would have made more sense for them not to be related and have Olive be another freak like Popeye and have them meet and fall in love that way instead as having her be there mother only just makes her comes across as being a bad mother and something that they would have to address in any possible future sequel.

For some strange reason this film has kind of a Scooby Doo angle to it with the group of teens splitting up to look around this factory. Which they all know is haunted as all except for Olivia have lived in this same town for all of there lives and so it makes no sense for them to split up in this context even when the group does start getting killed off one by one they refuse to believe that it's the same person that they've heard stories about all of there lives which just makes them look dumb and while it doesn't go against anything that the film had already set up it also doesn't the films cause either as this films characters are at best OK with the ones that your meant to like being somewhat likable and that the ones that your meant to hate being really unlikable but having them act this dumb just makes it come across as the fact that the writer of the film wrote himself into a corner and didn't know how to have to have the teen to continue to be in this one building and so he has them act dumb when in universe these characters would know that the stories that they've heard is true as they'd be able to put two and two together and speaking of this films characters while yes the ones that you are meant to like are likable and the ones that your meant to hate are really unlikable alot of the rest of them just fall into the background with this being because of the fact that the film has to many characters for such a short running time and as a result of that is the fact that not all of this films characters can be as fully developed as the rest of them are.

Now then his film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty seven minuets and thirty eight seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you'd expect one of these films to have and whereas Goldilocks And The Three Bears: Death Porridge really doesn't have alot of plot there to cover it's running time this film however has more then enough plot there to cover it's running time however tho this film still doesn't use it's running time all that wisely either as as was just mentioned alot of this films characters aren't that well developed and as a result of that is the fact that alot of them are really forgettable characters that do blend into the background and while the film does have a really cool location with the factory it still would have been nice if the film took the time to explain why Popeye stayed in that factory as outside of the fact that he keeps on eating this contaminated spinach he has no reason to stay there and he very easily could have left whenever he wanted to but he just doesn't and while the film does somewhat explain why this version of Popeye looks the way that he does with him shockingly looking like the cartoon character what they don't explain us why the Spinach was effecting the people that eat it as surely there would have been more killings like what we see in this film and yet the film doesn't explain any of that which does make it feel more of an afterthought 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 that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this films kills being alot better then what they really had any right to be as by all rights given this films incredibly small budget then the kills in this films shouldn't have been that good but nope on the contrary we get some really good kills in this film with the film also making use of alot of good looking gore to help to sell you on the kills with it being helped by the fact that alot of this films are not really creative and different but that a few of them do play into who Popeye is as a character with one of the films best kills coming when Popeye uses an anchor to decapitate a guy which is fitting for Popeye as he is after all a sailor but that's not the best kill in the film as that honor is actually tie with the first one being where Popeye just straight up pulls on a girls hair so hard that it takes of the top of her scalp which was a really effective looking kill as well and the other being where Popeye just straight up rips a guys arm off which worked because of the fact that the person in question was a really unlikable character thus making his death feel earned with this films kills being a good example that the makers of these kinds of horror films can indeed turn in a film with decent looking kills if they can be bothered to do so and because of that this films does have some really good looking kills in it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall while this film is quite easily one of the more better horror films that have a beloved kids character as the main villain it is still a pretty film in it's own right only this one does have alot more effort put into it that makes the film feel like less of a chore to sit through and one that some people might find enjoyable 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 thigs that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

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

Popeye'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.