Right, well I can't claim to be harboring much of any expectations to this 2023 horror movie titled "Goatman", as I sat down to watch it without ever having heard about it. But I was suckered in by the movie's cover/poster and the fact that the title was actually interesting enough.
Writer and director Trey Murphy delivered an absolute dumpster fire of a movie here. The storyline in the movie was pretty straightforward, and points for that. But it all just fell apart under some very boring and slow paced narrative, and the fact that the acting performances were so wooden and rigid that the forest, in which the movie was shot, was jealous of the acting performances being more wooden than it was.
The dialogue in the movie was rather poorly written, and even worse so delivered on the screen by the actors and actresses.
The character gallery in the movie was bland and pointless. And I have to admit that I can't even name a single one of the characters, if you were to ask me. They were that forgettable.
And then there were the special effects, make-up and prosthetic effects. Well, they were special. And points awarded, at least, as they were trying to make a satyr-like creature. But it just came off amateurish and not particularly interesting or scary.
As for "Goatman" being a horror movie? Forget about it. There was nothing scary here from writer and director Trey Murphy, unless you consider a movie that is more of a high school project than an actual movie as being horror, then by all means.
This is not a movie that I would recommend horror fans to sit down and watch. You're better off not wasting your time, money or effort here; some of us did, so you don't have to.
My rating of "Goatman" lands on a very generous one out of ten stars.
