A Halloween Puppy

Why? Who? How did this get made? This is truly one of my favourite bad movies. It is up there with The Room for me. The twins!! What? "There gonna beat us up!" What?

Lets get this straight... I married 8 times to 8 different men. When i showed them this movie and ALL of them disliked...i divorced immediately. I had never felt such resentment towards a man in my whole life. Thats when i realized No one will ever make me as happy as this movie has. This movie changed the trajectory of my life singlehandedly. I think this movie....though severely underrated... has the potential to shake the ground of cinema as we know it. The Godfather has nothing on this completely immersive experience of a film. A puppy....a halloween puppy...is ..dare i say...what we all need. In our lives. This movie will take over the world, globally.

The problem is, if you're a parent, you're probably here because you picked up the movie at a thrift sale because had a cute puppy and the word magic... by then it's probably too late.

We did exactly this, our library had it in their old books sale, unopened, so we tossed it on the pile of movies $2 a bag.

The kids were watching the new movies on a Saturday morning and they got about 20 minutes into this one and I was suspicious. This movie did not feel right. The last straw was the comment of "eating candy and pretending it is human flesh" from the weirdly Halloween-obsessed main character. It's like he's got the enthusiasm and obsession of a 5 year old, but add in the fearsome gore that an adult might seek.

I looked up the movie here and found indeed, it's made by a director that makes porn and gory horror movies. The fact that he made a few talking animal movies targeted at kids is suspect. Add in the deceptive marketing on each movie of cute animals that aren't at all in the movie and in my opinion this is an attempt at child grooming. No way the director is just that bad at making kid movies.

Our copy is now in the trash. I'm not interested in letting our kids watch it.

I thought this would be a good, funny kids movie for the family but it turned out to be the biggest bunch of crap I have ever seen.

Seriously, the writing, story, the acting, the filming and even the music are worse than porn levels of terrible.

It isn't even good-bad like Tremors 3, it is just poorly put together and executed. It is a case study in failed film making.

The only thing even remotely interesting is the weird sexual tension between the teens... and the dog and the mother. The long scene of the mother scratching her boyfriend that turned into a dog with the Sesame Street-like music in the background is just fetish material.

If you doubt this, go check it out on net-flix.

This movie is terrible. The puppy pictures sucked us in. About 10 minutes in I realized we made a mistake, but by that time my kids were invested. Where to start...the college-aged son's giddiness over "Halloween movie night", the exposed microphones, they wear the same clothes every day, the "night" scenes filmed at day, the 1 dog in the movie is full grown, but they keep calling it a puppy. The budget must have not called for a tailor, because poor Molly had to cuff her jeans, and I don't mean in the trendy way. I lost count how many times Molly called someone "weird". The mom eats grass with the "puppy". Plus, my own weird feeling that any minute it was going to turn into an adult film. I'm highly disappointed in Cindy Brady. She must have owed the director a favor.