Satan's Little Helper

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Satan's Little Helper arrived just in time for the Halloween holiday and was perfectly fitting. It certainly has the Lieberman stamp of dark humor all over it. This is Jeff Lieberman's first genre offering in a long time (since 1987's underrated Remote Control) and it's a nice welcome back. Lieberman has loaded this thing with satire. It seems he has a lot to say about video games and parental unawareness. It could come off as heavy handed if he weren't having a blast poking fun at it. Here's the plot: Dougie's favorite game is Satan's Little Helper and he's dressed as such for Halloween. In the game, you follow Satan around and help him murder and plunder and such. Dougie happens across a serial killer dressed like a devil and, staying true to his favorite game, follows him around and lends a helping hand. It's very funny in the "should I be laughing at this?" sense. There are many moments and one-liners that would have made me spew milk from my nose if I were drinking milk at the time. This movie is definitely not for everyone, but it will surely get more laughs than scares. I would classify Satan's Little Helper as a Halloween guilty pleasure.

Being a dark comedy doesn't count if the humor is like a sledge hammer to the skull. I first that it was going to be some bad Christian commentary on violence in video games, but that was giving it too much credit. Really, someone please make a horrible Christian commentary on violence in video games. Get someone unsubtle to direct it to. Some budget, no budget, I don't even care. It could be a vehicle for the crazy lying lawyer guy. Can you tell I'm padding my review yet? I've really said all I can say. The movie was bad. Really bad. I don't recommend this movie. Hey, have you played the new Arkham game? I have. It wasn't that bad.

This review will be brief, as I don't want to waste any more time this absolute piece of waste. Jeff Lieberman's return was nothing more than a camcorder, a kid, and a guy in a cheap Halloween mask. It looks like Jeff Lieberman said "Hey, this mask looks cool. Lets make a movie". I am baffled at the reviews this got. I am a fan of horror movies, just not homemade ones. Ridiculous. This whole movie wreaked of cheapness, amateurism, and disorganization. This was a NO budget horror movie. I am shocked the man that directed such a good horror movie in 'Just Before Dawn' put this on film. Do Not waste your time on this one. I wish I had gotten 100 minutes more sleep than watching this. 0, ZERO, NOTHING out of 10.

Words cannot describe how utterly dreadful this film is, but I'll give it a quick go. I'm not sure what the intention was at the outset of making this atrocity, whether it was intended to be funny or not, or if it is just so painfully bad that it was actually supposed to be serious, but whatever the intention - it failed miserably. The plot revolves around a young boy - who fancies his sister - going around with a serial killer, who he believes to be Satan, while the killer murders people. The boy is either stupid beyond belief, or mentally ill, as he for some reason believes that this is all fun and part of a game. (He's old enough to understand that it isn't, but seems incapable of achieving even this basic level of understanding). The story is terrible, the characters are terrible, the whole thing is just mind-blowingly crap that it will leave you wanting to gauge your eyes out so that you don't have to watch any more. If ever there was a contender for Worst Film Ever Made, this would be right up there.

It has been a while since I laughed so hard at any movie that I did to this one. From the first second of cheap footage to the last name in the credits it felt like a movie my 13 years old little brother could have written, directed, recorded, edited and then given away to a "know nothing" movie company. The fact that the so called killer is always hiding behind a Halloween costume and never actually talks is kind of annoying. But still, he gave me lots of laughs through his body language. And that is just because of the overacting he uses to compensate for not having any lines. As for the rest, we have a insane mother that understand nothing, we have a standard semi sexy sister that understand nothing, and finally we have the little boy, that really understand nothing. The movie is never scary, interesting, action filled or dramatic. It is only funny. It is funny in the way that you find something embarrassing funny. You know what I am talking about, it is something you really don't want to see but just have to because it makes you laugh.

I don't know if anything below will count as a spoiler, but just to be safe, SPOILER ALERT???. I didn't expect much from this film but I've been curious about it for a while. I felt that the actions, even of the little boys, were so preposterously stupid in every way that I was distracted by how frustrated I was (there is NO WAY that kid, that age, would not be able to tell that people directly in front of him were begin killed in real life). Maybe I'm biased but I also felt that the overall mood of the movie was cheapened by the repetitive references to sin/religion, regardless of the title. It definitely reeked of skewed, awkward political commentary. I was also rubbed in the wrong direction, further, by the weird incestuous stuff that kept popping up as well as the scene with the sister fraternizing with the murderer right in front of the boy. No way in hell would an older sibling do that in front of their kid brother if we are assuming we're talking about a sane, healthy relationship. Furthermore, the repetitive theme of the main character's skewed perception of reality was way, way too twacked out, even for a kid that young in a way that was completely unbelievable unless they had written him to have some type of mental issue. I absolutely love cheese, stupidity, preposterousness, but this one fell so short I couldn't enjoy it at all and felt mad about wasting my time when it was over.

Bad plot, bad acting, predictable... The characters are unrealistic, stupid at times. Some major things, like the killing of all police officers at a police station, is neither believable nor explained. Other things, like that suddenly everyone starts to rob stores etc. solely because there are no cops anymore, seem to be both, unrealistic and totally unrelated to the story itself; it seemed to have no purpose at all. On top of that all, the Satan worshipping of the little boy in the beginning is simply disgusting. A true 1 out of 10. Don't waste your time with this one.