Phantom Fun-World

I had the pleasure of viewing this movie today and I have to say, for a low budget film they did a great job. Is all the acting great? No, but there are some actors in this movie who gave it their all. The cinematography is also great in Phantom Fun World as well as the story, I really enjoyed the relationship between Cole and his mother and and Cole and his sister and how she took care of him. I really enjoyed the slashing in Phantom too! LC as the phantom is amazing as always in the film and I really think Phantom Fun World is a great movie for Halloween season and I really had a great time watching this great film.

Wow. Bad bad production. I can overlook a low quality production film if the acting is good, the storyline compelling, etc. This has poor production, poor acting, poor plotting, rehashed storyline, atrocious pacing, cliches story points, and just about everything that makes a bad film.

Somehow the story resolves around a "phantom" slasher of an indoor funland sort of place, that years ago killed several people. They re-open the place and guess what? The phantom still exist. Killings begin. Plot twist slowly unfurl from their non-existent scariest and lack any real relevance to any point.

Sad, sad, sad little film that I considered giving a 1. But there were moments when some of the actors came together in slight realistic interaction. But overall this movie is problematic, boring, and poorly executed.

Trying to make ends meet, a teenager gets a job at a local theme park set to reopen years after a tragic accident, but after hearing about the park's tragic history and writing it off learn that the staff is being stalked by a savage killer looking for retribution against the park forcing her to get away alive.

Overall, this was a really likable indie slasher. One of the better features here is the strong setup required to bring about the various interconnecting storylines at play here. The main setup of the family relationship that sets her out on the trip to the attraction works well enough to get an idea of the need to get involved as she needs to look after him with the need to make sure he's taken care of while their mother's at work is good enough to offer up the starting point for the introduction into the staff at the park where most of this takes place. This allows for another fun setup with the group coming off immensely well and likable as they put her through her paces while also setting up the fantastic backstory of the park's history involving the former owner's bullied teenage son snapping and going off on his killing spree that left the stained legacy the new reopening is supposed to fix that overall leaves this section incredibly fun. With this setup established, the turn into being a fun slasher comes off incredibly well. This mainly comes from the great layout of the park that we're taken through as the simple setup and fun series of interactions that take place here offer the kind of grand layout where the stalkings that take place are far more of the old-school variety where more elaborate stalking and chasing take place. While still featuring some of the shock ambush style sequences such as the first appearances against the workers, the more involved and lengthy ones including against the couple fooling around backstage, the fun sequence against the friend through various corridors and hallways, or the final chase against the killers turns out far more suspenseful and enjoyable. As these are usually punctuated by a brutal and somewhat bloody death at the end of the scene, these all come off rather nicely to give this a lot to like. There are some minor flaws featured here that bring it down. The main drawback here is the cliched and immensely predictable means through which this adds a second killer into the mix as a way to provide suspense and shock to overcome. This never needed the secondary figure to be in league with the masked figure as a sibling to help it be accomplished which follows the rules and formula of the genre which is why it's so predictable as it causes so many problems as for how that would get accomplished the way it does. Barely mentioning it and glossing over the situation only brings more attention to this factor so it does become a distraction, much like the behavior of the final girl once things start to get dangerous as she tends to stand by on the sidelines screaming and crying, refusing help until the last minute possible and dropping weapons constantly while having the upper hand. These factors all bring this one down somewhat,

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Another Tubi movie. What to even say about this? For starters, this whole movie feels cheap, in the worst way possible. Literally everything looks like it's duct taped on with the "set" (using that loosely). The camera work and directing are also bland and uninteresting. But I think the worst offenses here are the acting and writing. A lot of unknown actors here, which is to be expected with this type of movie, but there are some names that jumped out at me (namely the guy from Blair Witch and one of the killers from You're Next) which really surprised me and not in a good way. There is literally community theater level acting going on here. But they didn't have much in terms of story to go off of, either, so there's that. I did give it a couple stars because there's one kill which is awesome, but even the other kills are just uninspired and dull.

First off, one of the most sure fire ways of identifying that movie is probably going to be awful is if Ari Lehman is in it, and he pops up in the first 5 minutes. And as predicted, this film is another whiff. The premise itself sounded fun. Horror themed amusement park opens, then turns into a real life slasher when the titular "Phantom" begins knocking off the staff. Kind of sounds like a Scooby Doo episode taken to a psychotic level. I didn't expect it to be fine cinema, but I was just hoping for stupid fun. Weirdly enough it didn't even hit that low bar. For one thing, this movie has a real identity crisis. The theme sounds stupid, but possibly fun, the budget is low, the acting is atrocious, and Ari Lehman is there right off the bat, hamming it up in an ad for the park, in the most cringe inducing fashion, complete with the requisite blond bimbo in a tight dress oohing and aweing, and striking "sexy" poses beside him. So again, it' setting this stupid, cartoonish vibe immediately. Yet then, it introduces the main character, and suddenly cuts to this very serious, somber, drama vibe. She's showering, sadly, while very somber lifetime channel esque music is playing, then she's talking to her little brother about their mother, and how she abandoned them both, and tries to have this heartfelt moment. In fact, pretty much every time this character has a scene to herself it cuts to this very dramatic, sad, sober vibe as she attempts to relate to her brother, and connect with her estranged mother. And she's actually quite good. She's a talented actress. The problem is... she's acting in the wrong movie

Everything else, and every other character in this movie is cartoonish, and cringey. Every other character is a ridiculous stereotype. No one else can act at all, everyone is overacting horribly, every other character you encounter are all obnoxious, unlikable caricatures of people who don't speak, act, or behave like real human beings, and the rest of the movie feels like it was written by a child. Then back to the lifetime channel drama, then back to the cartoon. It makes no sense. It's like two different people wrote this film, and couldn't even agree on what kind of film they were making

Props to the main character, her brother, and to a lesser extent their mother. They are actually trying to act, far better than the awful script they were given. And major thumbs down to the park owner, the cheesy stereotypes that worked there, and Ari Lehman's ridiculously cringe...whatever it is he is trying to be (the dude played Jason as a child in Friday the 13th, long, LONG ago and has been riding that fame ever since. STOP CASTING THIS DUDE. HE CANNOT ACT, AT ALL, AND HAS A MASSIVELY OVERINFLATED EGO, EVEN LARGER THAN HIS STUPID HIPSTER MOUSTACHE).

Anyway, dull movie, weird bi polar vibe to it, with a few standouts that deserve to be in much better films.