I bought two on Blu, and thankfully I just watched the third on Tubi. They each have varying levels of humor, but did they all give me a giggle?
ABIGAIL (2024)
This is one of my favorite blind purchases in a while. This is exactly my kind of horror flick. Campy gore, humor, thrills and action, and a great cast.
It’s a familiar scenario. Baddies commit a crime, get trapped in a mansion, and soon discover they’re not alone.
Melissa Barrera of Scream 5 and 6 is the main girl, horror hunk Kevin Durand is the comic relief, Dan Stevens is pretty as always, Kathryn Newton of Lisa Frankenstein is the quirky girl, and young Alisha Weir of Matilda: The Musical kills it as the evil little vampire girl who terrorizes the cast.
The simplicty is what makes it so effective. The group is locked inside the mansion and targeted one by one and then turned into vampires, and it’s total fun all the way through. Definitely a good horror party movie.
DEER CAMP 86 (2022)
This little supernatural slasher is a fun ride with some light humor, a likable cast of guys, and a pretty cool killer. It’s only real flaw is that it suffers from major plot holes—not much of what transpires makes sense in the end. I won’t get into details because that would just lead to spoilers.
It’s a backwoods buddy movie about a group of guys that goes to a cabin in the woods where Native American girls have gone missing.
Before they even arrive at the cabin, they get into a bar fight…and then someone who intervened in the fight gets murdered, giving us a bit of a whodunit element. The murder also releases some sort of supernatural force.
The guys have a run-in with a sheriff, whose role in the proceedings remains unclear right until the end…as do the reports of missing girls.
That’s why you just have to go with it and don’t go looking to make sense of it all. In the end this is simply a movie about a group of guys being terrorized by someone or something in an animal skull mask. There’s a nasty nutsack scene, some suspense, supernatural happenings, blood and gore, humor, and intense chase and fight scenes. Not to mention the location shots in the woods are visually stunning (lots of fall foliage), and the overall vibe of the setting is very reminiscent of Evil Dead.
HANKY PANKY (2023)
I really just don’t have the patience for absurd horror comedies like I used to. And if you go into this because Seth Green’s name is in the cast, forget it. He simply voices a talking handkerchief, and he puts on a voice instead of using his own voice.
This one goes on the holiday horror page because it’s about a group of friend that celebrates the holiday at a cabin on the snowy countryside.
One guy has this hanky he talks to.
One girl is single and likes him. Another pair is brother and sister. And the final pair is a boyfriend and girlfriend who just want to get away from each other. Then there’s a neighbor who stops by to welcome them.
There’s a lot of talk, and I found very little funny about any of it.
41 minutes in one of them is killed. The best part of this movie is a witchy woman who makes for better horror than talking inanimate objects ever could.
After that we learn there’s also a talking alien hat. The alien hat starts killing everyone, and eventually battles the talking hanky. I just can’t with this movie.
