Saturday Morning Mystery

source: Saturday Morning Massacre

It's obvious what they were going for. A rated R, edgy horror Scooby Doo. They basically just take everything (minus the dog) and ramp it up to 11 and that should be a blast and to be fair there are times where it is. The cheesey montages, the team coming together, the over the top cliches and some of the horror isn't even half bad. But it's slow. It plods along, makes it painfully clear it's on a low budget and while the acting isn't bad, why'd they do that to Fred? Honestly it just isn't exciting. A great idea and one I hope gets another try in the future. This just didn't stick the landing.

Other reviewers claimed that a missed opportunity to create a real life Scooby-Doo movie was missed. No it was not. There were already two made and that is more then enough. One reviewers contends it is not a copy of Scooby-Doo, Yes it is. For all intents and purposes, it is. The ONLY reason I would suspect The Evil Dead is mentioned is due to the amount of blood? Of course the blurb on the cover is a no name site and unknown person so why believe what is claimed? One could make a much better comparison. Yeah, they have a dog, so what? The objective breakdown: Cinematography: Less then average. Much of the film is shot in darkness. Camera seemed to have a great deal of difficulty in focusing. You will see many a shot not in focus. Shots are not properly framed. This occurs so frequently it is disturbing. Sound: Average. Sound is clear and no difficulty discerning dialogue. Music: Background music does not seem to fit the movie and is repetitious, loud and ingratiating after viewing for a period of time Acting: Some are average. The actor playing the "Shaggy" character is horrid. The cop is not much better. It is amazing how much work some of these actors have in low, low budget er... movies, should I call them that? Script: Predictable. This is suppose to be a parody. It is extremely obvious that the two writers attempted quite a bit of humor in the dialogue. The problem is, none of it is funny at all. The inability to write humor and the actors inability to deliver the lines properly is as painful as performing botched eye surgery upon one's self with a spatula. It fail completely what it sets out to do. If one has absolutely nothing else to watch I guess one could watch this. There are SO many bad movies made it is like being hit by a tsunami. Regurgitation of the same film over and over makes me want to regurgitate.

"Saturday Morning Massacre" tells the story of a group of ghosthunters that mostly seek to hunt down criminals but find themselves in a house where dead is around the corner. At first, the plot seems well-known. A group of ghosthunters hunted down by some actual real demon or something alike. However, I really like the beginning of this film because they kind of play with this stereotype. For a moment afterwards, I had the fear that it would drift off to some paranormal happenings but in the end I have to say that they (vaguely) stayed within the real world. In many ways this film is over the top, in other ways it can be also a bit slow and probably disappointing for fans of the genere. But as someone who is really tired of demons and paranormal splatter horror, this was actually a nice relief. All in all you can see that some creativity and talent were put into the movie even though there are surely things to criticize rightfully.

Low budget B rated movie. Watch it for fun not for awards. It is what it is!

Imagine Jack Ketchum - who gave us the girl next door, offspring, the woman, and a number of other terrifying novels and stories that haven't yet made it to the big screen - wrote an episode of SCOOBY-DOO, where are you?. That's what we have here - as with "old-school" SCOOBY, any ghosts are metaphorical, and ordinary humans are behind it all. Except these individuals are nothing like ordinary, and a bit short of human! There's comedy, here, but it's dark, a little bitter, and largely hangs on the translation of Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby into Chad, Gwen, Nancy, Floyd and Hamlet. But if you're looking for guffaws and knee-slappers, you've come to the wrong movie. The makers are playing it all straight and for adults, so this isn't exactly a movie you can sit down and watch with your small children. It's fun and stands on its own as a horror film, even without the SD references. If you and your friends have never seen the original Scooby-Doo cartoons, you should be able to enjoy this on its own merits. The people complaining are just mad because they didn't get the movie they wanted - and that might be at the fault of the marketing department, because they did kind of set up to sell people a Scooby-Doo movie, but there are very few of the cartoons tropes at work. Anyhow, if you can put Scooby and the gang out of your head, and you're a horror fan, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to enjoy this for what it is - part homage, part gritty, visceral horror!

This will be short and sweet. I ENJOYED THIS MUCH MORE THAN I EXPECTED! Yes...it will remind you of Scooby-Doo. It's supposed to. Yes...you have to take some things on "faith," which means there are some implausibilities & some factually illogical scenes. What horror movie doesn't have them? Folks that watch horror movies and then nitpick them to death by saying "why go in there alone?" or "there's no way that could happen" miss the point in my opinion. I actually really liked how this built steadily through the movie. The director did a good job of using subtleties to build the suspense and form the horror elements without using generic jump scares. Sounds, curiously angles cinematography, mirrors, lighting...they were all used to the director's advantage. *** A HINT: Pay attention to the entire screen you're watching, throughout the movie. Just sayin. The acting was pretty decent, I dug the story, the script was acceptable, the direction was good, the scenery was really good (they filmed it in an actual historic mansion), and the production was good. Contrary to what a few reviews have said, I did not find this gory at all. If you're looking for gore, go elsewhere. There is a bit of blood, and a couple scenes that border on gory, but it's not a gorefest. Overall, I liked the whole "Scooby-Doo" tie-in. Make no mistake...it's not a copy or a new incarnation, only the set-up and purposeful character tropes that tie them together intentionally. Really enjoyed it. Won't win any awards, but the $3.99 rental price on Amazon was worth it to me. For fans of slasher movies.

Firstly I'd like to say that I really hate it when the posters and covevart to a film is misleading it in some cases features characters that aren't fen in the film ........like the chainsaw!?? Supposedly this is a comedy horror? But I can't remember anything remotely funny. Shame as the idea of a gory parody of Scooby Doo is a good one but was totally wasted on this very lazy script. The acting isn't too bad but it just plods along at snail pace with usual cliches and the fun only really starts in the last 25mins, from then it's ok. Some ok gore and hint of tension. Ultimately it's a huge wasted opportunity due to the poor writing. Only watch if not much else on.

The dog dies. That's enough for me to give it 1 star.

Brilliant satire of horror films and a stunning horror movie in its own right. The atmosphere is incredibly thick with terror as a ghost hunter group investigates whether an abandoned mansion is indeed haunted. The writing is sharp and funny but there are still plenty of startling moment and sequences of pure fright. At times things get pretty intense but the film never loses its sense of humor nor its way. The cast is wonderful with Ashley Rae Spillers (Last Vegas; The Love Inside Me) giving a delightful performance as the leader of the group. Spillers is a young talent surely destined for big things in the near future. Anyone who enjoys scary movies with clever plot twists and funny moments will certainly love Saturday Morning Mystery.