Satan's Little Helper (2005)

Pretty Good

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is simply terrible.If it's a parody, it fails to be funny. If it was intended as(semi-)serious horror, the terrible script and horrible acting ruined any remnant of credibility. So,what is it?I have tried to see any humor in the movie, but the over-obvious 'look- at-me-Ma-being-funny' kind of attitude destroys it. I tried to find any redeeming value in this movie by thinking of it as an over the top horror movie, but even then it simply is boring and spoiled by all the aforementioned reason. It's just a sick story based on what seems like a dysfunctional family with a devil worshiping idiot boy.I'm sorry I wasted my time watching this garbage which is neither one nor the other. I usually try to see some merit in a given movie, but I simply fail to detect anything of value.

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...

I really can't describe how much angry i am right now as i have just wasted one and half hour watching this awful movie.This is really a waste of time watching these actors acting in such a silly way or not even close to acting.i hated the silly plot and the silly impressions they had delivered to anyone who saw this movie.And the scenes were not even logic to a mature human being, they are making fun of the audiences, actually i didn't know whether it was a funny movie to laugh at or a scary movie to get my attention.I think this little boy has performed his part in this low level movie pretty well as they will never get a silly boy as this one.After watching this movie i was really angry that i was about to forget the real acting, the acting that attract any audience to watch it.To some up this movie is really bad and a waste of time.

Interestingly enough, this movie was not awful. When i first rented it, i thought i was in for a real crap fest, but actually, we had a pretty good time watching this movie. There were some things that made it lose some points, but in the overall scheme of the movie, we forgave some.long and short of the story, A kid really likes a video game (which is the worst flash game i've ever seen by the way) and confuses reality with fantasy. He has a weird crush on his sister so when she brings a boyfriend home from being a theater major (which i resent these two calling themselves theater majors) and the boy is annoyed. he wishes Satan could come around and kill this boy so his sister and he could be together. aww incest and murder. so cute. anywho, he happens to meet a random psychotic killer dressed in a mask. he's strewing dead bodies on the lawn and the kid thinks it's decoration. sure. why not. he asks the killer if he can be his assistant and the killer says sure. well, he's silent so he doesn't really SAY anything, but he nods. so he brings the killer home and hides him in the basement. the theater major boyfriend wants to go out and get a costume with the kid so they head out. after making the lamest costume purchase in history (all he does is buy a mask. and he calls himself a theater major) they leave. but the killer pulls the boyfriend into an alley and beats the ever loving crap outta him. i have to admit, i laughed. and they run back to the house where the sister is dressed up as a wench and the mom's going to be chiquita banana. boy brings the killer back to the house, but he's wearing a mask so the girl thinks its her boyfriend despite the fact that he has a different build and acts nothing like him (he's not that good of an actor honey) and then the killer proceeds to leave the house causing all sorts of mayhem and murder causing you to laugh all the way. probably the funniest scene was the scene when the kid's riding the shopping cart and telling him to run people over for points. that actually made me laugh out loud. about an hour into the movie, the kid's dad comes home (which i didn't even know existed considering he was never mentioned) is in the movie for, i kid you not (i checked) a minute and a half, and gets killed by the killer. and it's at THIS point the kid realizes the killer is real. wow. good job genius. after not helping their father at all while he's being killed, they cry in a corner and then run away. the killer ties up the mom and takes her to a party. this is by far the WEIRDEST part of the movie. she is totally covered in saran wrap unable to move or talk and everybody at the costume party laughs like it's part of the costume. um yeah.... i've never seen a costume like that before. anyway, the killer spikes the punch with antifreeze and everybody at the party dies. the kids manage to rescue the mom, but the killer gets away. He dresses up as Jesus (shrugs) and runs away.oh. i forgot to mention the most disappointing part. at one point he's arrested by the police, and about 10 minutes later, you hear that the entire police station is a slaughterhouse but they never show you how he gets passed like 7 armed guards and kills them all. i was like "DUDE! i would have LOVED to seen that scene! why didn't they have THAT? that would have been awesome!" anyway, after he's Jesus, he switches his outfit with the unconscious boyfriend and the mother and daughter unknowingly kill him. after that we see a policeman enter the house and the family's relieved, but at the end we see the killer is the policeman. roll credits.There are two things about this movie that i didn't particularly care for. the first thing was he crushes a cat's head at one point to write a message. i didn't like that. even though it's obviously fake i hate animal violence. so if you don't like this stuff, look away when he's on the porch.The second was i didn't like it when he shot his hand and dressed up like Jesus. That was pretty messed up.overall though, this movie was actually entertaining. as entertaining as Shredder to say the least. it won't win any awards, it is drawn out in some places, but you know what? it's not terrible. if you're in a bind thinking of what to rent and you like weird horror movies, give this a shot. you may or may not be disappointed. This movie really is just a matter of taste.Satan's little helper gets 5 grocery baggers stabbed with a screwdriver out of 10.