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.

Shingles the Movie simply must be watched. One is made aware of why life is worth living after enjoying the film. The acting is exactly what you'd expect. The special effects use every single penny of the budget, and possibly a couple more. The direction is superb. The big gun, however, is the writing. This is seriously some of the funniest stuff out there. Much, much funnier than any Hollywood comedy written these days. It's not just funny, it's smart-funny.. and by that I mean it's stupid. In a smart way. I'm fairly sure that if one doesn't enjoy this movie, they're probably actual serial killers, fascists, or politicians.

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.

I have long loved the books by the Authors and Dragons crew and learning that a Shingles Movie was coming absolutely made me giddy with anticipation.

This movie is hilarious, but kind of dumb. Like, Napoleon Dynamite dumb. It might take a couple of viewings to "get it".

Without spoiling the stories, I will say that most of them keep SUPER close to the books, but there are of course differences. (like none of the characters in the movies are "kids", that would be just too horrible)

You'll love Buick, You'll think Jimmy is a total tool. You will never look at garden gnomes or venquilitrist dummies the same way either!

My favorite short is probably Zombies Wrecked my Kegger, but I will say that Just Say Gnome is... Something else.

I only take off one star because some of the effects aren't very special, but it's a very thriftily made movie! Watch it. You'll have a blast.