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.

This movie was just terrible. The lead characters boyfriend was tepid. The kills were sloppy and unimpressive. The Popeye character was abyssmal. Look I like bad movies, I really do, but this was bad outside the range of what I enjoy. The only thing mildly enjoyable was the Olive character and that's because she had more personality than anyone else.

So many plot holes and questions. So may stupid things.

If you warn people about the fog and stand around doing NOTHING in that same fog YOU GET EXACTLY WHAT YOU DESERVE!

I have only two movies that have been this bad. This one and the first Killjoy. Wish I had a melon baller to scoop the memory of this movie from my brain.

I had hope for this. Even when taking on the obvious low budget it place, Popeye's Revenge is so so lacking.

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From what i could tell, Popeye's Revenge borrows much from a number of other superior horror movies:

Monster (Popeye) appears with the fog - The Fog (1980) House on a lake - Friday the 13th (1980) Death by wood in eye - Zombie Fleash Eaters (1979) Car fails to start - This age old tension builder has appeared on numerous occassions.

The script is lacking. Throughout there is an overwhelming sense of down time.

I doubt we'll be seeing much of the cast in the future, although the blonde had talent.

There was something about the female who goes topless, i thought she had talent also.

The guy with the Beanie hat, he possed talent also. That's my take.

Sometimes bad horror movies can be proped up by decent death blood speial FX.

Sadly, Popeye's Revenge lacks decent blood special FX.

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.

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.