To be honest, I have no idea what to make of this...movie. I originally thought it was a kids' "horror," like Goosebumps or Hocus Pocus. It's clear in a big way during the first two minutes that it's not.

It straddles that line between kids and adults, though: kids in the acting and special effects, adult in the gore and swearing. Also, I think they ripped the music from E. T.

Ssssooo, what the frig did I just watch? I *still* have no idea.

Don't bother with it if you have anything else on your watch list. But if you don't, check it out. It's a weird movie: a weirdness crossed between you watching someone do something stupid and you're embarrassed for them and you watching someone do something unexpected and you're calling 911 on them.

So check it out if you like practical effects from the 80s and acting from Sleepaway Camp. If not, Event Horizon is due for another viewing.

Considering we're less than a decade into obliterating black tropes in horror, I'm excited to see daring films like this. Script is a little flimsy and probably could have better spent the budget on some production design, but the acting is solid and the story works. The 80's-90's setting, which feels somewhat derivative of Peele, plays well into the surrealism.

Elvis Nolasco delivers on the assignment of his character, borrowing from legendary performances like Gene Wilder's, Wonka and Clarence William's, Mr. Simms. Although he lacks the physicality they both had.

But honestly, the steam escapes pretty quickly and we're left with a soggy, fantasy-horror.

First off with the positives I just wanna say I loved the atmosphere of the film really embodied that early to mid 90's feel and definitely feels like a campy horror movie plucked from that era! It really made good use of the time setting and environment! The gore, special effects, and puppetry were also on that point. My biggest gripe was the uneven story/plot...the main character a single mom trying to protect her son starts as almost a nice homage to the relationship of Andy/Karen Barclay from Childs Play which i really liked and also the theme of "parents not being perfect and doing the best they can" but for me the introduction of the Eddie/Anthony kinda tanks it for me as he's an obvious antagonist/red herring and you basically wait the entire movie for him to do his "big reveal" I also thought ending that felt very forced for the sake of trying to get a sequel/Franchise going for the titular "Mr. Crocket" character which while I enjoyed the performance of the actor who played crocket and the character overall I just wish they ended the film on a strong note and left the ending more up for interpretation/open ended which would've bumped up the score more for me but overall it's a nice little camp horror for Halloween!