KillRoy Was Here
I never had any intention of seeing this, mainly because of its original distribution method: being attached to an NFT. Hell will look like Point Barrow, Alaska before I consider touching an NFT. But I managed to come upon it by other means, and it's only an hour long, so I figured why not. Even the worst horror anthologies usually have one or two worthy stories.
Toss that rule out the window. KillRoy Was Here is four stories and a wraparound about a guy who looks like someone melted a Squidward mask in a campfire who operates like Candyman: say his name three times, he appears and kills. And that's all there is to this movie. Someone says his name, he shows up, he kills, the end. The situations vary, but mostly it's terrible people getting killed by this rejected Spirit Halloween costume. The CGI is awful, the monster design is dumb, Harley Quinn Smith can't act, there's no depth to any of the stories, no clever twists, no characters to care about ... there's nothing here.
I read on the movie's Wikipedia that Kevin Smith took it to Shudder, and they told him it wasn't good enough. At the end of the interview, he puffed out his chest about how much money he made, and mocked Shudder's dismissal. This wasn't just "not good enough for Shudder", this wasn't good enough for Tubi. This is an amateur, backyard movie made on a million-dollar budget. Kevin Smith is full of ideas, and some of them are great, but he lacks the ability to know when it's time to kill your darlings, and this is one darling that should've never gotten through to filming. It should've become lost media when NFT's died.
Toss that rule out the window. KillRoy Was Here is four stories and a wraparound about a guy who looks like someone melted a Squidward mask in a campfire who operates like Candyman: say his name three times, he appears and kills. And that's all there is to this movie. Someone says his name, he shows up, he kills, the end. The situations vary, but mostly it's terrible people getting killed by this rejected Spirit Halloween costume. The CGI is awful, the monster design is dumb, Harley Quinn Smith can't act, there's no depth to any of the stories, no clever twists, no characters to care about ... there's nothing here.
I read on the movie's Wikipedia that Kevin Smith took it to Shudder, and they told him it wasn't good enough. At the end of the interview, he puffed out his chest about how much money he made, and mocked Shudder's dismissal. This wasn't just "not good enough for Shudder", this wasn't good enough for Tubi. This is an amateur, backyard movie made on a million-dollar budget. Kevin Smith is full of ideas, and some of them are great, but he lacks the ability to know when it's time to kill your darlings, and this is one darling that should've never gotten through to filming. It should've become lost media when NFT's died.
Mini Review: I never had any intention of seeing this, mainly because of its original distribution method: being attached to an NFT. Hell will look like Point Barrow, Alaska before I consider touching an NFT. But I managed to come upon it by other means, and it's only an hour long, so I figured why not. Even the worst horror anthologies usually have one or two worthy stories. Toss that rule out the window. KillRoy Was Here is four stories and a wraparound...