It's quite charming and is sort of successful in blending comedy, horror, and over-the-top gore, but for whatever reason it just didn't quite win me over as much as I'd hoped it would.
It's one of those movies where I can't quite put into words what didn't work, but it was just a feeling. Maybe it needed to go even more horrific and also lean harder on the child-friendly/coming of age humour to make the contrast more entertaining?
If it was a more brutal and had more of a take no prisoners approach it could have been an effective and deserved satire of something like Stranger Things? I don't know. Like I said, I can't present any kind of critique well...
...but there was fun to be had, and the concept was pulled off in a relatively skilled manner that made for a pretty decent movie. I didn't love it, but I liked it quite a bit.
It's one of those movies where I can't quite put into words what didn't work, but it was just a feeling. Maybe it needed to go even more horrific and also lean harder on the child-friendly/coming of age humour to make the contrast more entertaining?
If it was a more brutal and had more of a take no prisoners approach it could have been an effective and deserved satire of something like Stranger Things? I don't know. Like I said, I can't present any kind of critique well...
...but there was fun to be had, and the concept was pulled off in a relatively skilled manner that made for a pretty decent movie. I didn't love it, but I liked it quite a bit.