Hooting, hollering, and high fiving every star in the night sky.
A nostalgic, screamingly funny blast of non-stop comedic lunacy from two of the best animated icons to ever do it. Accompanied by a brilliant screenplay that has no shortage of references and loving tributes to the horror/sci-fi canon of the 1950s as well as a climax that feels pulled from a ‘90s Michael Bay flick, this is already an early highlight for 2025.
I cannot stress enough how gorgeous…
Begins to run on fumes by the time the climax kicks into gear, but this is still a wildly silly and fun action comedy elevated by an excellent lead performance from Jack Quaid, who shares wonderful chemistry with co-star Amber Midthunder. Ray Nicholson has a great career ahead of him playing smarmy villains.
Best of all: this truly earns the film’s heavy R-rating (some of the gory set pieces here are absolutely batty).
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
One-woman SOCIETY.
Taking care of myself by bumping this up to a full five stars. An oozing, squelching masterpiece with colours and textures that pop like fruit scented bubble gum and an electronic score you can feel in your bones (just stay away from the spine).
Between this and REVENGE, Coralie Fargeat is two for two in her feature directorial credits within the genre, and I cannot wait to see what gnarly concoction she cooks up next.
A gloriously gory hoot and a half from Osgood Perkins, working from Stephen King’s short story. A horror-comedy that thankfully succeeds at the conventions of each genre, creeping you out one moment before eliciting a belly laugh minutes later. Fun stuff!
Plus, Theo James in his nerdy little glasses and Rohan Campbell are both stupidly hot (even when the latter is draped in a Party City ‘80s rocker wig). Shoutout to Canadian queen Tatiana Maslany who has one of my…
