Phantom Fun-World

I had the pleasure of viewing this movie today and I have to say, for a low budget film they did a great job. Is all the acting great? No, but there are some actors in this movie who gave it their all. The cinematography is also great in Phantom Fun World as well as the story, I really enjoyed the relationship between Cole and his mother and and Cole and his sister and how she took care of him. I really enjoyed the slashing in Phantom too! LC as the phantom is amazing as always in the film and I really think Phantom Fun World is a great movie for Halloween season and I really had a great time watching this great film.

First off, one of the most sure fire ways of identifying that movie is probably going to be awful is if Ari Lehman is in it, and he pops up in the first 5 minutes. And as predicted, this film is another whiff. The premise itself sounded fun. Horror themed amusement park opens, then turns into a real life slasher when the titular "Phantom" begins knocking off the staff. Kind of sounds like a Scooby Doo episode taken to a psychotic level. I didn't expect it to be fine cinema, but I was just hoping for stupid fun. Weirdly enough it didn't even hit that low bar. For one thing, this movie has a real identity crisis. The theme sounds stupid, but possibly fun, the budget is low, the acting is atrocious, and Ari Lehman is there right off the bat, hamming it up in an ad for the park, in the most cringe inducing fashion, complete with the requisite blond bimbo in a tight dress oohing and aweing, and striking "sexy" poses beside him. So again, it' setting this stupid, cartoonish vibe immediately. Yet then, it introduces the main character, and suddenly cuts to this very serious, somber, drama vibe. She's showering, sadly, while very somber lifetime channel esque music is playing, then she's talking to her little brother about their mother, and how she abandoned them both, and tries to have this heartfelt moment. In fact, pretty much every time this character has a scene to herself it cuts to this very dramatic, sad, sober vibe as she attempts to relate to her brother, and connect with her estranged mother. And she's actually quite good. She's a talented actress. The problem is... she's acting in the wrong movie

Everything else, and every other character in this movie is cartoonish, and cringey. Every other character is a ridiculous stereotype. No one else can act at all, everyone is overacting horribly, every other character you encounter are all obnoxious, unlikable caricatures of people who don't speak, act, or behave like real human beings, and the rest of the movie feels like it was written by a child. Then back to the lifetime channel drama, then back to the cartoon. It makes no sense. It's like two different people wrote this film, and couldn't even agree on what kind of film they were making

Props to the main character, her brother, and to a lesser extent their mother. They are actually trying to act, far better than the awful script they were given. And major thumbs down to the park owner, the cheesy stereotypes that worked there, and Ari Lehman's ridiculously cringe...whatever it is he is trying to be (the dude played Jason as a child in Friday the 13th, long, LONG ago and has been riding that fame ever since. STOP CASTING THIS DUDE. HE CANNOT ACT, AT ALL, AND HAS A MASSIVELY OVERINFLATED EGO, EVEN LARGER THAN HIS STUPID HIPSTER MOUSTACHE).

Anyway, dull movie, weird bi polar vibe to it, with a few standouts that deserve to be in much better films.

Another Tubi movie. What to even say about this? For starters, this whole movie feels cheap, in the worst way possible. Literally everything looks like it's duct taped on with the "set" (using that loosely). The camera work and directing are also bland and uninteresting. But I think the worst offenses here are the acting and writing. A lot of unknown actors here, which is to be expected with this type of movie, but there are some names that jumped out at me (namely the guy from Blair Witch and one of the killers from You're Next) which really surprised me and not in a good way. There is literally community theater level acting going on here. But they didn't have much in terms of story to go off of, either, so there's that. I did give it a couple stars because there's one kill which is awesome, but even the other kills are just uninspired and dull.

At first the movie seemed like it was going to be a fun - "so bad it's fun story," but it turned worse and worse after the 10-minute mark. A few of the actors were tolerable, but the leads were bad, very bad.

The sets and props were so low budget that a good deal of the set up was made up of shipping palates nailed together and as the film progressed it got even chintzier with yards and yards of thin white plastic sheeting taking the place of interior walls. The main interior was a small arcade with a carousel in the center which they tried to pass off as a large indoor "fun park." It did not give the illusion of a large building which would allow people to run away from a killer, but they dismally tried to create that feeling with characters running in circle trying to look as if they were!

The plot was very juvenile and utterly illogical, every action by our heroine and her brother were the exact opposite of a normal reaction to a dangerous situation.

The attack sequences were so bad that you could see that the knife was not cutting the victim's clothing let alone their skin. And the slow-motion endless sequence made that even more obvious! At one point a "victim" being brutally sliced with a huge knife simply say "ow, ow, ow, ow!" like a child scraping their knee!

I thought that I was going to get some laughs out of this film, but all I got were some regretful moans, like from a really bad pun!!!!

What a fun movie! The cinematography is excellent, the story line is compelling, and the plot twist is shocking. This indie film even pokes some fun at itself and other films like it with jokes that are actually funny. It's amazing they managed to all this on such a small budget. Also the soundtrack is phenomenal! Combine all that with a cool retro vibe and a great cast and we've got a new favorite! We will surely add this to our roster of horror movies that we watch every year near Halloween. We can't wait to see what happens with the Phantom next. Maybe a prequel where we learn how he survived all those years before he resurfaced?! We definitely want more Phantom!