Shingles: The Movie

Shingles: the Movie is a fun anthology of stories directed by Steve Rudzinski (the CarousHell series). In "Shingles the movie", we have the four cooter scouts sitting around a campfire telling stories while they're waiting for their scoutmaster to catch dinner.

The first story involves "Jimmy" and a zombie apocalypse. It's the shortest story and my least favorite.

Story number two features "Sloppy" the Ventriloquist dummy. It's pretty funny! The actor "Ben Dietels" reminds me of Ed Helms. Lol! Anyway the story is loaded with laughs and crude humor.

The third story involves Aliens crashing a fraternity party. Watch as the Aliens and the Frat compete against each other in beer games.

My favorite and the final story is about "Dusty the Gnome". He's a garden Gnome that poops cocaine! This is probably the most comical of the stories. You'll never look at garden Gnomes the same after this.

I'm not familiar with the Shingles books, so I came in as a fan of a couple the actresses.

I spent last year reading all of the Shingle books to prep for this. The Shingles book series ranges from "10 year old boys high on meth and mountain dew writing a Goosebumps parody" to really solid books that deserve to be fleshed out into full fledged novels or separate series.

I laughed a lot, and after some books I showered a lot.

I say all of that to say, Shingles the Movie strikes a great balance of immature humor, good writing, and good acting made better by a director and crew that know what they are doing.

Only reason I cant rate this higher is it needed more Buick (well and I cant take it to 11).

This movie just isn't good. Unfortunately while the director manages to work with his budget, the end result is a haphazard mess with few to no scares and ultimately ends up being a snooze fest.

This would be much more paletteable if the director actually knew what horror was. Unfortunately (and unsurprisingly) the director seems to go for cheap scares and puts very little effort into the craft. As scathing as that may seem, I'm just trying to spare those who may blindly stumble upon this movie and think it may be worth watching. Not the case sadly. The film needs to be ironed out more if there is any hope of future for the director and his crew.

Shingles the Movie simply must be watched. One is made aware of why life is worth living after enjoying the film. The acting is exactly what you'd expect. The special effects use every single penny of the budget, and possibly a couple more. The direction is superb. The big gun, however, is the writing. This is seriously some of the funniest stuff out there. Much, much funnier than any Hollywood comedy written these days. It's not just funny, it's smart-funny.. and by that I mean it's stupid. In a smart way. I'm fairly sure that if one doesn't enjoy this movie, they're probably actual serial killers, fascists, or politicians.

I have long loved the books by the Authors and Dragons crew and learning that a Shingles Movie was coming absolutely made me giddy with anticipation.

This movie is hilarious, but kind of dumb. Like, Napoleon Dynamite dumb. It might take a couple of viewings to "get it".

Without spoiling the stories, I will say that most of them keep SUPER close to the books, but there are of course differences. (like none of the characters in the movies are "kids", that would be just too horrible)

You'll love Buick, You'll think Jimmy is a total tool. You will never look at garden gnomes or venquilitrist dummies the same way either!

My favorite short is probably Zombies Wrecked my Kegger, but I will say that Just Say Gnome is... Something else.

I only take off one star because some of the effects aren't very special, but it's a very thriftily made movie! Watch it. You'll have a blast.