★ 7 / 10
He ain't so freaky!
Foreverisacastironmess123
Oh this one is just precious! It's really the entire experience of the movie that makes it freaky, it all has a real uncanny valley type thing to it, like what…
Oh this one is just precious! It's really the entire experience of the movie that makes it freaky, it all has a real uncanny valley type thing to it, like what you might imagine the world of one of those bizarre 90s PC horror video games that had the live action cutscenes might be like? To put it mildly it's more silly than scary, and it's a 'movie' that you have to either get on board with right away or you're best to just shut off quick! It's so hilariously lame, like a bad, cheap TV movie or even a Christian movie, one that's trying much too hard to be all serious and scary, but there's not even any gore and what little violence they're is wouldn't give anyone nightmares unless they were about three, no nudity, no swearing, and the vibe and acting is really cute how much they're genuinely trying and how sincere some of those actors were playing their parts, and some of them are so perfunctory and flat that you just know they had to have been friends or family of the crew helping out by playing bit parts! I find it an absurdly lovable movie, but it was crying out for some black comedy, it's all a bit too seriously presented. I do believe Birdemic had more involving characters to it. I find that really funny in the movie too, there's something about the flat yet earnest line delivery that just makes me want to crack up, for me it definitely nails the so-bad-it's-good thing. I rather like it for what it is though, something of a new guilty pleasure for me. The only part I really didn't like as much was how stupid the plot gets as everyone goes on a monster hunt and there's a witch with magic and everything? Also there's a ninja.. So in the closing while this is definitely a bad movie that never ever pops up and grabs you, it's also bizarrely charming and funny and very oddly enjoyable, a good-bad flick for sure! "Thank you Mrs. Timson." X ?
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★ 8 / 10
Defy all genre!
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Motern Media -- Matt Farley and Charles Roxburgh -- make movies that seem to be horror on the outside but are wonderfully strange movies on the inside…
Motern Media -- Matt Farley and Charles Roxburgh -- make movies that seem to be horror on the outside but are wonderfully strange movies on the inside, explorations of the darkness -- and light -- within small towns. Like here, in a small New Hampshire town, Farley Wilder (Farley) is the son of talk show host Rick Wilder (Kevin McGee), a near-universally beloved celebrity who spends his days ridiculing his son and forcing him to take constant tests.
Freaky Farley lost his mother at a young age and never found out why; that combined with how his father treats him -- this is a comedy, even though everything in this sentence seems horrific -- has left him stranded in adolescence, through puberty but still afraid of women, often just peeping around town yet not meaning anything wrong by it. He might have a love interest in Scarlet (Sharon Scalzo), who wants to be a reporter, if his father didn't hate her. And oh yeah, the town also has a witch (Steff Deschenes), bullies like Air Force Ricky (Kyle Kochan), a ninja (Roxburgh) and woods that are so dangerous that Farley's dad won't even talk about them. Surprise -- they're filled with troglodytes.
There's a dark omega to even town's light alpha, the kind of clandestine meetings that find a young killer getting conscripted into battling prehistoric cave people. Or maybe there are just bribes in your town, I don't know.
What I do know is that this movie is just right. It hits all my buttons -- low budget horror as the Halloween mask under which a funny yet dramatic movie with heart beats inside -- and made me laugh out loud at least twice. That's more than a win.
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6.1/10
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