Review of Satan's Little Helper (2005) by Alex M — 09 Feb 2014

More a comedy than a horror...it's really not scary until you start to think about how a naive child was responsible for letting a mask wearing psycho into his family's home willingly, causing many innocent people to die.

I feel guilty for laughing at certain times but I have to hand it to Lieberman for bringing some wacky humor to the stale slasher genre. Making the killer act outlandish in gestures and overall wacky, particularly silent and never showing his face, makes him as chilling as he is funny.

I don't think we've ever had a funny fraud killer so I can acknowledge the originality. The low budget and practically non existent special effects does occasionally make this movie hard to watch, but the humor mixed with decent acting and competent attention to horror writing, makes watching it worthwhile.

I can definitely see this holding some lasting cult status in the years to come..much like leprachaun and the gingerbread man movies have. Bad on technical and substance terms but revered for other reasons.