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Directed by Bo Zenga. Starring Leslie Nielson, Steve Howey. Diora Baird and Kenan Thompson. 2009. USA. Running Time : 87 minutes.

DVD release date 1st February 2010 BUY NOW

Stan Helsing, the long lost relative of the more infamous Van Helsing, saves his friends when six of the most well known horror villains return to earth at once.

Ok let’s be honest here. Leslie Nielson as a cross dressing waitress and one half of Kenan and Kel did not exactly inspire me to watch this movie. Nor am I generally a fan of crossing horror and comedy within the same movie, sometimes it works such as Shaun Of The Dead or The Cottage, sometimes not as was the case with Lesbian Vampire Killers. Not exactly the best of starts then. But one thing FrightFest taught me was to always give a movie a chance, even if at first it doesn’t sound like your thing.

Stan Helsing is employed at the local video store and is required by his boss to drop off some videos or risk losing his job. So all plans of going to a halloween party with his friends get put on hold. However whilst en route they manage to get caught up at a gas station where the owners are somewhat perverted, hit a dog and manage to pick up a hitch hiker straight out of prison. All this before they even get to Stormy Night Estates.

Whilst there they encounter the six most feared villains in horror, parodies of Michael Myers, Freddie Krueger, Jason Vorhees, Chucky, Pinhead and Leatherface and a contest is arranged in the local bar, karaoke, humans versus the monsters.

The humour in the film is very childish and may play well to a teenage audience but most of it was either lost on me or I just found it to be quite stupid. Admittedly Stan and his friends singing Ring Of Fire to a town which had burned down or the monsters doing a remake of YMCA did raise a smile but it was one of the few occasions this happened whilst watching the film.

There are some clever nods to various horrors both old and new such as the opening sequence in the video store (the scene which shows returns of The Ring).

I can’t really say as I recommend this to anyone, perhaps on a Saturday night with a few friends and a few drinks and I did try to enjoy it. It’s not terrible but it’s not really one for me.

If you can imagine a cross between Scooby Doo and a very bad comedy mixed with crude humour then you won’t be far off with this.

The disc is loaded with a generous amount of extras, Killer Parody shows the making of the film and interviews with various cast and production members. There are also various Extended, Alternative and Deleted scenes which for me show that the film could have actually been even cruder had they left them in. Then there is the usual line up of outtakes, trailers and stills.

Kris Griffin.

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