Monster Blood
Monster Blood
3 Episodes on this disk (one a two parter)
I’m going to review this one a bit differently - mostly because I just don’t feel like reviewing the first two episodes of this individually.
Let me start by saying that I have never been a big monster fan - and so I am sure that this colored my experience of this set of episodes. But this was the only Goosebumps left that I had never seen and I wanted to see it.
The first episode was the two parter title episode in which a pile of goop called Monster Blood and which looked a lot like that slime that all the kiddies seem to love to play with comes alive and starts eating everything in sight… do giant blobs have sight?
The one redeeming element in the first episode was the over the top, but brilliantly played Great Aunt.
The Second part lacked the Aunt and took place on a plane… basically the same scenario only the kids find a rather ironic way of disposing of the monster.
The Second episode “How to Kill a Monster” was even lamer then the first - and frankly if I was from Louisiana (Especially the Swamps) I’d sue.
And that leaves us with the one episode I did feel was worth a review of it’s very own.
The Girl Who Cried Monster:
Movie Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars
In Brief: A demented twist on the boy who cried wolf… come to think of it, that story was kind of demented too.
minerva_fan Says: “Nothing but dulcet snores from my dear wife as she slept through this entire disk.“ Lucky her…
Netflix Synopsis: No individual synopsis for this episode.
My Synopsis: Almost interesting - and definitively the best of this lot.
As the title would suggest a young girl who gets here jollies by crying monster and scaring her brother, finally sees a real monster and nobody will believe her.
The beginning is kind of slow and predictable - but the end twisted into left field for me and came up a winner.
--->Warning Here There Be Spoilers<--
Some of my favorite moments included :
The end scene where you find out that the parents are really monsters and they dispatch of the librarian who wants to eat their daughter.
Watching the kids face fill with glee and excitement when they’re told that when they get a little older their “training fangs” will come in.
Realizing they were not going to eat the friend at the end - because hey to me that screamed “We may be monsters, but we’re still good souls.”… after all the one guy they did kill was stalking their child.
--->End Spoilers<---
I would Recommend This Movie To: Kids of all ages and Goosebumps fans.
A fun little bit of fluff that almost made this disk worth sitting through… almost
3 Episodes on this disk (one a two parter)
I’m going to review this one a bit differently - mostly because I just don’t feel like reviewing the first two episodes of this individually.
Let me start by saying that I have never been a big monster fan - and so I am sure that this colored my experience of this set of episodes. But this was the only Goosebumps left that I had never seen and I wanted to see it.
The first episode was the two parter title episode in which a pile of goop called Monster Blood and which looked a lot like that slime that all the kiddies seem to love to play with comes alive and starts eating everything in sight… do giant blobs have sight?
The one redeeming element in the first episode was the over the top, but brilliantly played Great Aunt.
The Second part lacked the Aunt and took place on a plane… basically the same scenario only the kids find a rather ironic way of disposing of the monster.
The Second episode “How to Kill a Monster” was even lamer then the first - and frankly if I was from Louisiana (Especially the Swamps) I’d sue.
And that leaves us with the one episode I did feel was worth a review of it’s very own.
The Girl Who Cried Monster:
Movie Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars
In Brief: A demented twist on the boy who cried wolf… come to think of it, that story was kind of demented too.
minerva_fan Says: “Nothing but dulcet snores from my dear wife as she slept through this entire disk.“ Lucky her…
Netflix Synopsis: No individual synopsis for this episode.
My Synopsis: Almost interesting - and definitively the best of this lot.
As the title would suggest a young girl who gets here jollies by crying monster and scaring her brother, finally sees a real monster and nobody will believe her.
The beginning is kind of slow and predictable - but the end twisted into left field for me and came up a winner.
--->Warning Here There Be Spoilers<--
Some of my favorite moments included :
The end scene where you find out that the parents are really monsters and they dispatch of the librarian who wants to eat their daughter.
Watching the kids face fill with glee and excitement when they’re told that when they get a little older their “training fangs” will come in.
Realizing they were not going to eat the friend at the end - because hey to me that screamed “We may be monsters, but we’re still good souls.”… after all the one guy they did kill was stalking their child.
--->End Spoilers<---
I would Recommend This Movie To: Kids of all ages and Goosebumps fans.
A fun little bit of fluff that almost made this disk worth sitting through… almost