Lies, Damn Lies

Satan's Little Helper

I would like to claim that I am doing more than just watching rubbish films at the moment, but that would probably be a lie. In my defence, I did go to London recently, and saw the Producers, on seats so high I suspect I was amoung the clouds....

But I'm posting about this particular film. It's a horror film, of the slasher vein, where a young, deeply annoying boy, has been playing on a game called... Satan's Little Helper, which does what it says on the tin. It is haloween, and upon spying a man dressed in a Satan outfit who has obviously just killed someone, he decides that this is a hilarious fake joke, and goes off to help him.

Meanwhile, his sister, who he wants to marry(!) is at the house, with her boyfriend, Alex. Naturally, the young boy hates Alex, and asks Satan to take him to hell. Which he does. To be fair, for the most part the young boy misses out on the killing, although when an old lady is hung in front of him and he shows absolutely no doubt there is some worry.

Of course he is not the only stupid person in this film. See, Alex had gone off with our young hero to dress up as satan, and when satan and the kid comes back (satan doesn't talk), she assumes he is Alex, and continues to believe this EVEN WHEN HE STARTS TO THROTTLE HER.

This continues, with the discovery that Alex isn't dead after all! Finally the revelation is made that the guy isn't Alex at all, although no-one believes our hero's sister when she tells them that he isn't, thinking she's make belive (her mother and father in this case). In fact they actually have to witness a live murder of the father for anyone to believe her.

Satan heads off, with the mother wrapped in clingfilm so she can't talk, to a fancy dress party, where everyone there seems to think this is perfectly normal.... he poisons the punch with bleach, and then heads back.

In a brilliant scence, Alex threatens Satan with a gun. Satan pulls his hand back to his face, imitiating Alex's father(who he killed earlier on. His father thought Satan was Alex too... this town is full of stupid people). Satan then takes the gun and shoots himself in the hand, gives back the gun and walks off. Alex then describes this to his ladyfriend, saying "That's just like Dad, showing me he is going to get away with it." Apparently Alex's dad is in the habit of shooting himself in the hand. Alex is quite willing to accept the idea of his father being a psychopath who tried to murder him.......

This is all set up so when they find and shoot the satan costume, his dad is of course behind it. This might have been clever if we hadn't already seen his dad DIE, but never mind.

MEANWHILE... our young hero Alex has been ordered to stay in his house, but prayed to God to help. So when the doorbell rings, he pretty much immediately opens it, to find a guy wearing a Jesus costume. Now, I know he's only 10 years old, but surely tonight would have made him develop some sense of fear from people in costumes.... apparently not....

The film slogs onwards, with Alex disappearing and our young hero, sister and mother in the house. Mother and sister go in search of Jesus. They see a person in a costume who is standing doing nothing, and so, displaying a complete lack of willing to learn, they stab him lots. It is, of course, Alex.

Finally, our young boy runs out to get help from the police. A policeman... wearing a mask... comes to help. He of course invites him in, as do the mother and sister. The film ends, and you can't help thinking those three deserve to die, the level of gullibility they succum to.

In its defence, I think some of this movie was meant humorously, but it took itself a tiny bit too seriously for all this to be meant to be funny.....

posted by Mr K @ 3:33 pm