Matt Loomis All i do is watch terrible movies and this is by far the most god awful thing i have ever experienced!The worst acting ever teamed up with goosebumps quality cinematography and a plot that feels like it was written by 6 year old with special needs make this strait up painful!This piece of human fecal matter caused me physical harm to endure!!!I should get a purple heart for sitting through this entire "movie"!Its not even funny,i thought it would be so bad its comical but no its just an all around waste of existence!This movie makes me ashamed to be apart of the same species as the people involved with this!Why?why is this real?The idea that some one funded this piece of crap...now thats scary!

lathe-of-heaven Okay, it's a FAIR idea that maybe had a little promise IF, and I do mean IF, it was done well. I don't know what the hell happened to Jeff Lieberman, but he certainly should know WAY better than this.Very simple... If you just edit out all the stupid 'Dead Air', of which there is a bloody TON of it; say, bring the film down from a ridiculous 100 minutes (for THIS story, are you frigg'n kidding me?!) and chop out about at LEAST 20 minutes of nonsense, most of which where for absolutely NO reason what so ever, people are just standing around and staring and saying nothing for long, LONG periods of time. IF you were to do that, then MAYBE you would have a fun little entertaining film with some nice chilling touches a la a very, VERY low rent 'HALLOWEEN' I truly just cannot get my mind around the fact that Lieberman after all the experience that he has had, would be so incredibly dense as to completely RUIN the film by allowing all this useless footage that absolutely KILLS any momentum or sense of Horror at all.A very, Very, VERY stupid and pointless waste of what at least MIGHT have come close to the 5 1/2 stars that it is rated here.NO excuse...

lost-in-limbo Jeff Lieberman's is a profound low-budget cult director who has made some unusual, but highly enthralling horror / sci-fi enterprises like; 'Blue Sunshine (1976)', 'Squirm (1976)', 'Just Before Dawn (1981)' and 'Control (1989)'. It's been a long time between drinks, but has he ever put a foot wrong. Lieberman returns with the wickedly macabre, but fun Halloween based psycho horror with a considerably dark funny bone; the straight-to-DVD 'Satan's Little Helper'. He does a great job blending together the sinister aspects (oh there are plenty moments that try to offend like trolley ramming in a car park) with the self-aware offbeat humour. No surprises for Lieberman fans. The plot (with a serial killer dressed up a costume going around a small island community randomly killing off people and then presenting the aftermath as some sort Halloween house decoration. Also nine-year-old Douglas gets tricked in to helping out this psychotic, when searching for his master Satan to cause mayhem; as he's dressed up as his favourite video game character - Satan's little helper) might be ludicrously shapeless and then somewhat calculatedly plotted in the dying stages, but throughout it's snappily paced (though it does get a bit bogged in the final third with things you see coming) and excessively violent with its ghoulish streak. Its an oddly cool concept, with a metaphorical touch of naïve and childhood innocence getting a twisted taste of manipulative evil where reality is being confused with fiction (video games causing a numbness to violence) and religion isn't discarded either. The performances are all played in a wry manner with a terrific chemistry among the cast; a wholesome Katheryn Winnick is delectable in her role, Amanda Plummer is spiritedly good and a truly bratty performance by Alexander Brickel. Joshua Annex dressed up in the devil suit (quite a vivid costume) gives an excellent performance, which was constructed around body language due to his character not speaking. Lieberman shows flair, but a surefooted tidiness with his minor budget, despite some very fluid moving photography. Refreshingly senseless and humorously gusty b-grade horror fodder right for the picking.

movieman_kev Dougie, a less then mentally stable 9 year old, is heavily into a video game entitled 'Satan's Little Helper', so much so that when he spies a murderer in a devil costume he hardly bats an eye before asking to be his minion and asking if his new 'friend' can kill his sister's new boyfriend (Dougie wants to marry his sister himself, but that's neither here nor there). Things soon spiral horribly out of control, as they are apt to do in these scenarios.I haven't been too kind to ol' Jeff Lieberman in the past, I haven't enjoyed his films since "Blue Sunshine" & have on one occasion even drew the ire of the man himself who wrote to me on here. But with that said, I have to give kudos to a film when I feel that it warrants them and I did find this film does just that. Yes it's silly, but it's still likable in it's own demented way (until it starts to lose steam a tad in the final act) Joshua Annex steals the movie as the main baddie not even having to say a word, the rest of the cast, including a bizarre acting turn by Amanda Plummer, fare not so well (but again that's not a real slight against the film, as that's a small part of the charm) All in all it's a perfectly capable small black comedic horror film.Eye Candy: Melisa McGregor shows T&A My Grade: C+ Where I saw it: Netflix online via xbox 360