Popeye's Revenge

Move along....there's nothing to see here! If you're reading reviews to actually figure out if you want to watch this or not, then don't. This is just a run of the mill slasher movie where the slasher happens to be Popeye. I thought maybe somehow with the character being Popeye, this might be somewhat entertaining, but it wasn't.

The premise is that a bunch of twenty-somethings go to the house where Popeye was drowned as a kid to fix it up. Terror ensues, and Popeye, who stalks the place, kills everyone. While watching this, all I could really think of was Friday the 13th with Popeye instead of Jason. Then at the end they tell you a back story that sounds a lot like the Nightmare on Elm Street story.

Popeye's Revenge is complete nonsense. Turning our childhood's spinach-loving sailor into a cheap horror figure is neither creative nor interesting. The movie tries to be scary but ends up being unintentionally funny, and its attempt at building an eerie atmosphere is so weak that even the jump scares are predictable. The script feels like it was written by an AI trained on "how to make a horror movie" and then printed out without any editing. Add in terrible CGI and awful acting, and you get a film that's nothing but a waste of time. Instead of resurrecting Popeye, they should have made a documentary about the benefits of spinach-it would've been scarier. But to be fair, it's still better than Snow White.

This movie was just terrible. The lead characters boyfriend was tepid. The kills were sloppy and unimpressive. The Popeye character was abyssmal. Look I like bad movies, I really do, but this was bad outside the range of what I enjoy. The only thing mildly enjoyable was the Olive character and that's because she had more personality than anyone else.

So many plot holes and questions. So may stupid things.

If you warn people about the fog and stand around doing NOTHING in that same fog YOU GET EXACTLY WHAT YOU DESERVE!

I have only two movies that have been this bad. This one and the first Killjoy. Wish I had a melon baller to scoop the memory of this movie from my brain.

I'm telling you it just gives you a whole new understanding about the character. I would never look at spinach the same again in my life. WTF did I just watch? If they started having the bootleg awards, this movie definitely would win. I mean, as far as the cinematography and visuals, it was kind of interesting, don't get me wrong. But just all the way around it was just preposterous.. I don't remember none of this when I was coming up as a kid. But come to find out the same people who made this other people who made like Winnie the Pooh horror, movies, and all kinds of other stuff. What's next the jungle book?

Popeye's Revenge (2025) is another horror movie take on a childhood character that started off with Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023). While I have unironically enjoyed all the Twisted Childhood Universe movies, I really hated watching this movie.

Positives for Popeye's Revenge (2025): The movie is less than 80 minutes long.

Negatives for Popeye's Revenge (2025): This is the childhood horror movie that turned me off the most. There is nothing worth watching this movie for as the filmmakers get everything wrong about the horror genre. The acting is absolutely atrocious and no one is even trying to give a decent or okay performance. This horror movie version of Popeye looks like a very cheap cosplay that cost only 10 cents. There are no good kills, no blood or any food practical effects being used here. Despite being less than 80 minutes, the movie was horrible pacing as it drags the story on for so long that it wasn't even funny. And finally, this is the type of horror movie that will turn off people to the genre and it makes me sick to my stomach.

Overall, Popeye's Revenge (2025) is easily the worst horror movie of 2025. I just hope there are other filmmakers who will actually put effort into these childhood character based horror movies.