Popeye's Revenge

I recently watched the UK horror film 🇬🇧 Popeye's Revenge (2025) on Tubi. The story follows a young woman and her group of friends who aim to reopen a summer camp that's notoriously haunted by the spirit of Popeye. But when the real Popeye shows up with his sights set on the young woman, nothing will stand in his way.

This picture is directed by William Stead (Children of the Night) and stars Emily Mogilner, Steven Murphy (Relentless), Danielle Ronald (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey), and Danielle Scott (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey).

Unfortunately, the execution across the board is abysmal. Popeye's look is bizarre and poorly designed. While the film clearly made an effort to cast attractive actresses and features plenty of topless scenes, the kills are a huge letdown-especially one involving an anchor that had potential but completely misses the mark. There's very little redeemable about this film.

In conclusion, Popeye's Revenge is a waste of time and should never have been made unless there was a serious effort to do it right. I'd rate it a 3/10 and strongly recommend skipping it.

Popeye's Revenge (2025) is another horror movie take on a childhood character that started off with Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023). While I have unironically enjoyed all the Twisted Childhood Universe movies, I really hated watching this movie.

Positives for Popeye's Revenge (2025): The movie is less than 80 minutes long.

Negatives for Popeye's Revenge (2025): This is the childhood horror movie that turned me off the most. There is nothing worth watching this movie for as the filmmakers get everything wrong about the horror genre. The acting is absolutely atrocious and no one is even trying to give a decent or okay performance. This horror movie version of Popeye looks like a very cheap cosplay that cost only 10 cents. There are no good kills, no blood or any food practical effects being used here. Despite being less than 80 minutes, the movie was horrible pacing as it drags the story on for so long that it wasn't even funny. And finally, this is the type of horror movie that will turn off people to the genre and it makes me sick to my stomach.

Overall, Popeye's Revenge (2025) is easily the worst horror movie of 2025. I just hope there are other filmmakers who will actually put effort into these childhood character based horror movies.

I'm telling you it just gives you a whole new understanding about the character. I would never look at spinach the same again in my life. WTF did I just watch? If they started having the bootleg awards, this movie definitely would win. I mean, as far as the cinematography and visuals, it was kind of interesting, don't get me wrong. But just all the way around it was just preposterous.. I don't remember none of this when I was coming up as a kid. But come to find out the same people who made this other people who made like Winnie the Pooh horror, movies, and all kinds of other stuff. What's next the jungle book?

Of course I was not expecting much of anything from this movie, as I sat down to watch it. Why? Well, seriously? Just look at the title and the contents of the movie. Doesn't exactly scream stellar entertainment. But still, on account of it being a movie that I hadn't already seen, I opted to give director William Stead's 2025 movie a fair chance.

Writer Harry Boxley didn't really put together a particular thrilling or overly entertaining script. And basing a horror movie such as this on the work of E. C. Segar just was a far stretch. Sure, I made it through the movie, but I have to say that "Popeye's Revenge" feels like it is a movie that is mostly suitable as a background movie; you know, the kind that plays while you're doing something else and only pay half an ear and eye on the movie. There isn't a proper storyline to follow, and it feels like you just watch a whimsical Popeye going from one random scene to the next, killing whomever happens to be in that scene.

I have to say that "Popeye's Revenge" comes off more as being a comedy than an actual horror movie. Why? Well, because everything was just so comically stupid and a horror movie based on the Popeye character is just silly. It just makes no sense whatsoever that the killer had to be Popeye.

The only face on the screen that I was familiar with was actress Danielle Scott. Yeah, I've seen enough shoddy low budget horror movies to be familiar with her. The acting performances in the movie were actually fair enough.

The effects in the movie were fair, but nothing extraordinary really.

The production level of the movie was actually rather good, taking into consideration the premise of the movie in general.

"Popeye's Revenge" is not a movie that I would recommend you to waste 79 minutes on watching. It just simply wasn't worth the effort. Just like the "Winnie the Pooh" horror movies, Popeye was something that never needed to be blended in with horror.

My rating of "Popeye's Revenge" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.

Popeye's Revenge is complete nonsense. Turning our childhood's spinach-loving sailor into a cheap horror figure is neither creative nor interesting. The movie tries to be scary but ends up being unintentionally funny, and its attempt at building an eerie atmosphere is so weak that even the jump scares are predictable. The script feels like it was written by an AI trained on "how to make a horror movie" and then printed out without any editing. Add in terrible CGI and awful acting, and you get a film that's nothing but a waste of time. Instead of resurrecting Popeye, they should have made a documentary about the benefits of spinach-it would've been scarier. But to be fair, it's still better than Snow White.