Popeye the Slayer Man

When I watch this kind of movies I don't expect an Oscar Winning film. Keeping my feet on the right place, I am able to enjoy slashers like this one.

First, if you love B-slashers this one is for you. I mean, it is what it is, a bunch of silly people getting ready to be slaughtered, as usual.

Second, I was scared about how bad the gory parts can be lol. But I was wrong. The Fx's are quite good keeping in mind the low budget. No CGI. To add, Popeye doesn't look too bad at all. Honestly I like it.

Last, I would like a second part.

The Sailor man takes Manhattan. As Jason in the old days. (Wink wink).

Anyway, as I said, if you love this kind of movies, no worries, it's a fun ride. I suggest to smoke some radioactive spinach, before the movie. It will help. Enjoy!

The good news is that I enjoyed Popeye The Slayer Man more than the godawful Popeye's Revenge. It's still not a great film, but there's a reasonable amount of gore, and Popeye himself (played by Jason Robert Stephens) looks fairly imposing, even if the sailor's face is little more than an expressionless silicon mask (that causes Stephens' few lines of dialogue to be muffled).

The plot is simple: a group of friends go to a disused canning factory to make a documentary about the legend of 'the sailor man' who is said to haunt the building. Popeye proves to be very real, and starts killing people. There is plot twist that won't come as much of a surprise, but this is essentially a slasher flick, and as such it delivers what one would expect: lots of running around the gloomy factory and plenty of death scenes, which include head crushing, bone snapping, decapitation by anchor, impalements and arm-ripping. The splatter is decent enough for a low budget flick, and the acting is reasonable.

If you're after an undemanding time-waster, there's far worse out there than this one (the aforementioned Popeye's Revenge). Will this be the best of the Popeye horror movies? We'll have to wait for Shiver Me Timbers (2025) to be released before we can answer that.

A group of youngsters break in to a spinach factory, desperate to figure out whether the fabled old Sailor exists.

It's definitely better than Popeye's Revenge, a bit more cohesive, and I'd argue that the acting, though far from perfect, isn't actually that bad.

Is it good, absolutely not, but if does fall into that category of so bad it's watchable, one of those movies that going could put on after a night out, have a pizza and a giggle over.

Popeye, all I keep thinking of is The Goonies, imagine if Sloth has been on the roids, had some cosmetic surgery, some Botox and developed a love of spinach instead of chocolate.

The death scenes are really poor, and at times you can see bits and bobs I'm sure you're not meant to.

Every cliché under the sun, the film starts exactly the same way as Pooh and Mickey, a woman running for her life in some sort of warehouse, if you're wanting originality, think again.

I eagerly await the new Snow White from these guys, but until then, Slayer Man provides some unexpected entertainment.

5/10.

Right, well I can't claim that I was harboring any expectations to this 2025 movie titled "Popeye the Slayer Man" from director Robert Michael Ryan. Yet, I still opted to watch it, on account of it being a movie that I hadn't already seen.

The storyline in the movie was sort of bland and sluggish. There wasn't really a whole lot of anything interesting happening, and whenever something did happen, it just wasn't sufficient to make up for the long wait in between such scenes. It was a bit amazing that writers Cuyle Carvin, John Doolan, Jeff Miller and Robert Michael Ryan collectively could manage to come up with something so vague and mundane.

I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. But I will say that the acting performances were fair, despite the fact that the script was bland.

Visually then the movie was okay. There were some bloody and gory effects to spruce things up.

Semi-watchable, sure, if you enjoy cheesy and pointless low budget slasher movies, but hardly a noteworthy or mentionable movie. Nor is it a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time.

My rating of director Robert Michael Ryan's 2025 movie "Popeye the Slayer Man" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

Look, it is what it is, but somehow this Popeye was harder to understand than anything Robin Williams ever said.

It hurts.

I appreciate the lack of CGI but Popeye looks like the last version of Joan Rivers.

It feels part Troma but mostly Friday the 13th.

The experience could have used a few more quips from the big guy, but then again, the Elephant Man was easier to understand.

After 80 years, this viewer hoped to get a bit more then what the film offered.

This thing is at least watchable when compared to "Popeye's Revenge."

4 out of 10 spinach cans.

PS Put something in your pipe and smoke it all before you watch either of these movies.