Popeye the Slayer Man (2025)

[claws]

Popeye enters public domain in 2025 in case you are wondering



There's also a trailer on YouTube.

[zombie no.one]

https://youtu.be/CGO32Zmh2YI?si=oz0uzlb2eN5skS29

well this sure looks like it's about to turn every slasher cliche on its head and be the most radically original horror in years....

[Gabriel Knight]

It will be like a sprite swap, just replace Michael Myers with Popeye and call it a day.

[M.10rda]

Kind of a missed opportunity, methinks... there's plenty of authentic opportunity for horror in "Popeye": the witch, the Goons (who have enjoyed a cultural renaissance of sorts lately), the vulture or whatever the heck it is... or they could just turn it into a Cormac McCarthy nightmare on the high seas w/ lots of colonial racism and sodomy. I mean, being stuck in a cabin w/ Bluto alone would be a horror movie....... but surely we needed one more slasher film.

[chainsaw midget]

Even if you ARE going to make it a slasher film, there's still more angles you can come at it from this. 

Frankly though, I'd say the best bet would be keeping Popeye as the hero and treating it like Evil Dead or Army of Darkness.  Let him be the cocky hero who's in way over his head fighting gruesome demon zombies of drowned sailors. 

[Trevor]

I'm waiting for the horror reboot of a certain South African film called THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY MANIAC KILLERS 😳😬😉

[M.10rda]

Frankly though, I'd say the best bet would be keeping Popeye as the hero and treating it like Evil Dead or Army of Darkness.  Let him be the cocky hero who's in way over his head fighting gruesome demon zombies of drowned sailors. 

Yeah, I like that. Woody Harrelson as PopAsh suddenly occurred to me. He kinda' did that in the ZOMBIELANDs, tho.

[zombie no.one]

"When I eats me spinach, it's your life I finich"

...I'm calling that tagline 

[VenomX73]

[bob]

I blame the horrible killer Winnie the Pooh film universe for this film becoming a thing

[chainsaw midget]

"When I eats me spinach, it's your life I finich"

...I'm calling that tagline 

I think that's more quality than we can expect from that movie.  However I also feel that if you sent a message to the makers, they'd probabaly include it somewhere. 

[FatFreddysCat]

Well, that looks ... awful.

[zombie no.one]

just watched about 1/3rd of this... no more.

exactly as you'd think... typical new horror stuff.

self aware, but doesn't do anything with that. I would say it's semi played for laughs, but what laughs? generic characters, occasional vaguely witty one liners.

very gory, but lazy in all other aspects.  not scary. lacking in any kind of distinctive tone or atmosphere.

so I bailed after about 30 minutes.


....but I've heard the finish is strong. 

[Trevor]

"When I eats me spinach, it's your life I finich"

...I'm calling that tagline 

😳😉😀😃😄😅🤣😂🐢

[zombie no.one]

...well it wasn't the tagline, maybe I should've followed chainsaw's advice