Phantom Fun-World

Trying to make ends meet, a teenager gets a job at a local theme park set to reopen years after a tragic accident, but after hearing about the park's tragic history and writing it off learn that the staff is being stalked by a savage killer looking for retribution against the park forcing her to get away alive.

Overall, this was a really likable indie slasher. One of the better features here is the strong setup required to bring about the various interconnecting storylines at play here. The main setup of the family relationship that sets her out on the trip to the attraction works well enough to get an idea of the need to get involved as she needs to look after him with the need to make sure he's taken care of while their mother's at work is good enough to offer up the starting point for the introduction into the staff at the park where most of this takes place. This allows for another fun setup with the group coming off immensely well and likable as they put her through her paces while also setting up the fantastic backstory of the park's history involving the former owner's bullied teenage son snapping and going off on his killing spree that left the stained legacy the new reopening is supposed to fix that overall leaves this section incredibly fun. With this setup established, the turn into being a fun slasher comes off incredibly well. This mainly comes from the great layout of the park that we're taken through as the simple setup and fun series of interactions that take place here offer the kind of grand layout where the stalkings that take place are far more of the old-school variety where more elaborate stalking and chasing take place. While still featuring some of the shock ambush style sequences such as the first appearances against the workers, the more involved and lengthy ones including against the couple fooling around backstage, the fun sequence against the friend through various corridors and hallways, or the final chase against the killers turns out far more suspenseful and enjoyable. As these are usually punctuated by a brutal and somewhat bloody death at the end of the scene, these all come off rather nicely to give this a lot to like. There are some minor flaws featured here that bring it down. The main drawback here is the cliched and immensely predictable means through which this adds a second killer into the mix as a way to provide suspense and shock to overcome. This never needed the secondary figure to be in league with the masked figure as a sibling to help it be accomplished which follows the rules and formula of the genre which is why it's so predictable as it causes so many problems as for how that would get accomplished the way it does. Barely mentioning it and glossing over the situation only brings more attention to this factor so it does become a distraction, much like the behavior of the final girl once things start to get dangerous as she tends to stand by on the sidelines screaming and crying, refusing help until the last minute possible and dropping weapons constantly while having the upper hand. These factors all bring this one down somewhat,

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Wow. Bad bad production. I can overlook a low quality production film if the acting is good, the storyline compelling, etc. This has poor production, poor acting, poor plotting, rehashed storyline, atrocious pacing, cliches story points, and just about everything that makes a bad film.

Somehow the story resolves around a "phantom" slasher of an indoor funland sort of place, that years ago killed several people. They re-open the place and guess what? The phantom still exist. Killings begin. Plot twist slowly unfurl from their non-existent scariest and lack any real relevance to any point.

Sad, sad, sad little film that I considered giving a 1. But there were moments when some of the actors came together in slight realistic interaction. But overall this movie is problematic, boring, and poorly executed.

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!