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Watch this if you liked: "Gremlins", "Idle Hands", "Fright Night" & "Life After Beth"

The Good, the Bad and B-Movie Horror:

• A B-movie style horror movie that starts off on the right eager foot with its sense of comedy but eventually ends with a yawn due to the ineffectiveness of the plot.

• Anton Yelchin's character here is almost exactly like his character portrayed in "Odd Thomas", where he plays boyfriend material who is just as odd, naive and innocent.

• The cast feels really mismatched and grossly stereotyped. It's hardly believable that someone as hot and a tree-hugger like Ashley Greene would even go out with Yelchin's character (who works in a shop selling horror props and costumes). Alexandra Daddario is also too hot and cool (owns her own ice cream shop) to be a stammering mess that is crushing on Yelchin. Only Yelchin's best friend/half-brother played by Oliver Cooper manages to come across as believable, but even then, seems like his character was just added on to play the 'gross-best-friend' for the sake of laughs.


Cinema Online, 20 July 2015