Mouseboat Massacre Film Review

Why is it now a thing to make horror films where Mickey Mouse is the main villain as while yes granted he is the public domain but there's only so long that you can keep making movies with him as the main horror villain before the novelty starts to wear off. Which is something that's happening alot more sooner then later as every indie filmmaker under the sun are making horror movies with Disney icon being the main villain with the latest one having dropped about a few days ago now and since i've reviewed quite literally all of the others that have been released and shall continue to do so it makes sense that I review this film as well and so then me as I review the film tries to blend in elements from The Ring and the Evil Dead remake for no apparent reason whatsoever with the film in question being called simply just "Mouseboat Massacre" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a family head to a lake house to help with getting one member of their family off of drugs they find themselves being targeted by killer known only as The Mouse. Now then in of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad as it not only rip off plot elements from The Ring with the killer only being unleashed after one of them watches a video tape but the whole escaping to a cabin inn the woods idea to get someone off of drugs is ripped right off of the 2013 Evil Dead remake and for extra measure they also rip off elements from Friday The 13th: The New Blood only this film doesn't understand what it was that made those elements work for well in those films with this films plot coming across as being generic and by the numbers as you can tell right away how this films plot is going to go and really it goes the exact same way that you think that it will go as that's just how predictable that this films plot is as it had nothing new or even the slightest bit original to it that makes this films plot standout from all of the other Mickey Mouse themed horror films that are out there right now with it hitting all of the plot beats that you think that's going to it and because of that it comes across as being dull boring and predictable as well with the plot of this film not even being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Kathi DeCouto as Connie , Joseph Emms as Nigel Jackson and Keith Eyles as Stu Jackson. Also starring in this film is Lauren Leppard as Mimi Jackson , Atlanta Moreno as Phoenix , Shayli Reagan as Sarah ,Victor Rios as Simon , Sam Rowlands as A Policeman , Mouse Of Horrors and Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey star Natasha Tosini as Blaire Jackson , Iveta Drulyte as Helen Jackson and Jay Robertson as The Mouse.

Now then in of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not as bad as it could have been. As by all rights this films acting should have stunk to the high heavens as not only do these kinds of films typically have bad acting in them anyway but all of this films actors are a bunch of really unknown actors and therefor it could have been foolish to expect good performances from the in the first place and that's exactly what we get as all of this films actors turn in some decent performances in this film and while this films acting will never win any kind of awards it was never going to do due to how bad that this film was in the first place with this films best actor being Lauren Leppard as Mimi Jackson as she has to play a character who constantly on edge all throughout the film and then switch it up when she starts getting these visions of her family and her therapist being brutally murdered which only adds to the stress that the character is already going through in the first place and to be Lauren Leppard does play the character really well with her scene with her father Keith Eyles being the best acted scene in the whole movie and while Jay Robertson does look rather impressive as The Mouse as he is quite a tall person which does make the character look physically imposing he just doesn't have the acting skills needed to pull the character off with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with in of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Even tho this this film has pretty much the exact grand total running time that you'd expect a film like this one to have. The makers of this film thought that it would be a very good idea to have the films opening prolog be a whopping seven minuets long which if this film was alot more nearer two hours wouldn't be an issue as you still have a good chunk of film in which you can still fully develop all of your character and the plot of the film however this film isn't even one hour and thirty minuets long and so those seven minuets is time that could have been better used in fully developing the films plot and characters except now it's being spent on a prolog that has very little to know impact on the plot of the main film as all it is is showing us three characters getting killed and that's really it and while there deaths are referenced later on in the film as well that still doesn't justify the prolog being that long as you still could have gotten across all of the information that you needed to in about three to four minuets just by having one character be killed with the others killed off screen as the only real reason for these films to have a prolog is to get to the killer alot more quicker so it wouldn't really matter if we had a few off screen deaths at the start of the movie regardless and yet for some odd reason the makers of this film thought that it was a good idea to devote that long time to characters that we are never going to see again in the main body of the film when that's time that should have been spent in developing the plot of the film and the films characters as those are two most important things that you need in order to make an actually good film.

It doesn't really need saying who the main villain of this film as you can tell right from the films poster just who it is. As yes it's one again Mickey Mouse and to be frank it's getting dull seeing all of these Mickey Mouse themed horror movie come out in such a short space of time and what makes this worse is the fact that the indie filmmakers are going to keeping on making them because of the fact that there cheap and easy to make and while every once in a while you get a Screamboat where that the films version of Mickey Mouse still acts like his cartoon counterpart only now it's done with a more sinister edge to it you nine times out of ten get films like this where the only reason for the film being made is the fact that they have a beloved cartoon character killing people with it once again being made clear as day that that's where all of the effort goes when films as bad as this one come out as there's very little redeeming qualities about this film as even there version of Mickey Mouse acts nothing like him outside of the fact that he's wearing a mouse mask and lives on a boat and that's really it and while the idea of him living on a boat is a good idea that the film does use near the end it's really only there because of the fact that the only Mickey Mouse cartoon to enter the public domain is Steamboat Willie and that's really it as the boat adds nothing to the film so much so that you could remove the idea of him living on a boat from the film entirely and nothing that's actually important to the plot of the film would be lost as it has no impact on the film as a whole but credit where it's due this films version of the Mickey Mouse character does look good grated he's just wearing a mouse mask and some overalls but it is still a good look and one that does suit this version of the character.

As was mention at the start of this review this film borrows elements from other and quite frankly better horror films. Which does make the makers of this film seem quite lazy which is something that does make alot of sense as the writer of this film is also the same person that co-wrote the so bad that it's good Mikey Mouse horror themed movie Mouse Of Horrors Harry Boxley with him even writing the pretty average Popeye's Revenge as well so it's safe to say that his guy has really found his niche in writing bad horror movies where the sole selling point is the fact that the killer is a beloved kids cartoon character and yet even tho there still needs to be something original in the film as even Mouse Of Horrors had an original setting to it so this writer can come up with original elements but for one reason or another he just chooses not to which is something that does make him seem like a lazy writer but to be fair tho he is working on alot of movies as the main writer for them and so there are going to be times where we get nothing new or original followed by one maybe two films where the premise is an original idea with this film being one of the few times where he just couldn't come up with an original idea and so he just went with what he knew worked in the past but in doing so he's quite clearly showing that he has no idea what it was that made those ideas work so well in the first place as the idea of having a killer video tape be linked to the killer worked in The Ring because it meant that no matter how far you ran the killer will still get you thus making the killer this unstoppable force of nature and the idea of having someone have these visions worked in Friday The 13th: The New Blood worked because it gave Jason a unique hero to up against and the idea of going to a cabin in the woods to help someone get off of something worked in Evil Dead 2013 worked because those characters were actually likable characters who were just trying to do their best for Mia and all of those things are missing from this film thus meaning that while the ideas are solid there lacking what it was that made them work so well in the first place.

To say that this films characters are bad would be a huge understatement as all of this films are badly written characters. With absolutely none of them having anything interesting about them whatsoever and while this films characters aren't the typical kind of characters that you'd usually find in a slasher film there also characters have nothing to them as none of them have any personality trait and all of them are just forgettable characters heck it would have a huge improvement if this film just copied and pasted characters tropes from and better horror films as that would at least sow that some effort went into this films characters but they didn't even do that with all of this films characters coming across as being very note with the parents coming across as only caring about Mimi as they just straight up ignore what there other kids are up to even when there eldest son Nigel is missing for hours they just don't do anything and assume that he's on a date with a girl that he met on the way up to the lake and they don't even bother talking to Blaire other then just to tell her not to let Mimi out of her room and that's it with even the dad just straight up yelling at the top of his lungs to Mimi the very kid that he's there to help get off of drugs with none of the kids fearing any better as both Blaire and Nigel have about as much personality as a blank wood and contribute nothing to the film other then being victims for The Mouse and that's really it with the only somewhat decently written character being our final girl Mimi as she has to try to convince her parents that there son is in serious danger which even tho they know that he's been missing for quite a while now still ignore her warnings for no good reason and even Mimi isn't that well written as she has no personality to her whatsoever and is only somewhat interesting noy because of the fact that she's written well or anything like that rather it's just because of the fact that she's the main character and that's really it.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty two minuets and fifty one seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you'd expect one of these films to have with this film having more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time however tho this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as it doesn't develop the plot at all and the same thing is also true for the films characters as none of them get any sort of character developed whatsoever with the plot of the film remaining as bare bones as it was every going to be and the characters basically just being there for the sake of being there and while we do get some backstory for The Mouse character it's oddly confusing as he was a mouse that wanted to be human after a scientist did some research on it to make it as tall as the average human being which they never explain why he's as tall as he is and nor do they explain why he seems to summoned whenever someone watches this one creepy and very badly done animated video either both of which are things that should have been explained as they would have added to the characters backstory but because the makers of this film thought that having a seven minuet long pro a film that's just over one hour and twenty minuets was a good idea we are now left characters that can't be that well developed as the film has to get to the next plot point quickly and the plot can't be that well developed because of the fact that there's a huge seven minuet long prolog at the start of the film with those seven minuet being time that could have been spent on either developing the plot of film or the films characters but I really will it that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this films kills being some of the best aspects of this film as alot of this films kills are some really creative kills that show alot of this films practical effects which is quite clearly where alot of this films budget went as the rest of the film looks bland and average but the films gore and practical effects actually look pretty decent with the best kill in the whole film being the kill when The Mouse uses a chainsaw to kill off Nigel as not only do we get a really impressive and creative kill out of it but we also get alot of gore out of it as well something that is also true for all of this films kills as well as there does seem to be alot of gore used in all of this films kills and while having some really impressive kills is indeed a step in the right direction for this film none of it means anything because of the fact that this film really doesn't give us the audience a chance to like any of it's characters and therefor we don't feel anything when they die and heck even the killer goes out in a weak way as well as he gets bludgeoned to death by Mimi and that's it which is a rather underwhelming death for this character to have and it's alot of the same thing for alot of this films kills as even tho the kills are decent and really creative because of the fact that the film doesn't give us a reason to care for any of it's characters us the audience don't feel anything when one of them does die in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall out of all of the Mickey Mouse based horror films that are out there this one is one of the worst ones but it's not the worst one tho as that honor goes to The Mouse Trap with this film still trying to be a decent film as there are some decent ideas in this film the issue is tho is that this film doesn't develop anything that it sets up which makes them feel rather undercooked and wasted in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does earn that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 4.5 out of 10 from me.

Now hen as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page , Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.