Right, well I will be the first to admit that I had never heard about this 2023 movie from director Adam Gierasch, and yeah I definitely found the movie's title to be stupid and corny. But at the same time, the title was actually sufficiently silly to make me pick up the movie, so it worked, didn't it?
And with "Spaghetti" being a horror movie that I hadn't heard about, much less actually watched, of course I opted to sit down and see what writers Dempsey Gibson, Markice Moore and Jason Rainwater had to offer. Now, the movie was labeled as a horror movie, but it certainly wasn't a horror movie, it was a thriller at best.
The storyline in "Spaghetti" turned out to be a surprise actually. I wasn't expecting the movie to be entertaining, much less actually catering to my interest in movies, but the writers managed to make the script interesting. Sure, there were some aspects to the movie that felt out of place with the overall presentation of the movie, but it panned out nicely enough anyway. I was genuinely surprised with the script and storyline here, so thumbs up to the writers for that accomplishment.
Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in "Spaghetti". However, I will say that the acting performances in the movie were actually better than I had expected for a movie titled "Spaghetti", for better or worse. I was especially impressed with the performance of Donna Glytch (playing Toni), despite her not having a leading role.
I am not overly keen on movies of this caliber, and rarely sit down to watch them. There are far less entertaining movies out there of the same caliber as "Spaghetti", which actually made director Adam Gierasch's movie somewhat of a refreshing gust of wind. And I have to say that the movie was definitely surprised me.
I was perusing the reviews for "Spaghetti" and found it suspiciously odd that out of the twelve reviews that the movie had received, at the time of me writing this review, then eleven of them had rated the movie a nine or ten out of ten stars rating. Sure, that wasn't dubious and questionable at all.
Visually then "Spaghetti" was actually good. It wasn't a movie that made use of an overwhelming amount of special effects, but whatever effects and props were used actually served the movie quite well, and that added to the overall impression of the movie. And there were some pretty interesting visuals throughout the course of the 81 minutes that the movie ran for.
My rating of director Adam Gierasch's 2023 horror movie "Spaghetti" lands on a six out of ten stars, which surprises even myself.
