Shingles: The Movie

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.

The authors from the popular podcast Authors and Dragons have been writing books in the Shingles series, once a month, for a long time now. They are usually a little more gross, outrageous, irreverent, and "out there" than their normal series. I think it is their version of brain dumps.

And now, there is a movie!!

Shingles, the pervy adult version of Goosebumps.

This is without a doubt, a lower budget movie, but it is a lot of fun! What's not to love about a talking puppet, zombies, a coked up killer gnome and battling aliens in an epic beer pong game?

I love that most of the authors of the books make an appearance in the movie.

This movie is gross, crude and totally everything I love about a good B movie. I can't recommend this enough.

Terrible movie. If you value your life and your time listen to this review. The only reason this movie has a high score is because it's got a very devoted fanbase of ten year olds too hopped up on sugar to know what horror and comedy actually are.

The first scene of the movie is supposed to be bad on purpose, and I was initially intrigued at this because I thought that there was no way that the acting and jokes could get worse. I was so totally wrong. Not only did the jokes fall flat, but they looked like they even made the actors uncomfortable. The acting even got worse! It's just impossible to me that a movie like this can have a rating so high.

Numerous times cast members seen moving in the background apart from the scene. For a horror film, it was not scary in the least and despite having gratuitous blood from zombies, it was a joke.

The ventriloquist material was pretty immature and lousy.

The videography was on the level of a high school play at best and really did not add much to the story. The trailer park scenes were appropriate given that "trailer park trash" would be my description for the production crew, videographers, and most of the actors in general. At nearly two hours, it was pretty much more than I could take during a single sitting.

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.