Review of The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue (2013) by Jesse O — 29 Aug 2014

This film is certainly appropriately silly and it has decent enough leads to make some of the movie's jokes work. But the movie doesn't quite manage to reach a point where I think this was good.

..or even average. I think for, most of the film at least, I thought this was average. But there comes a time, most like a lot of horror/comedy films, where the film just starts to drag and then you start to notice that the script is really quite anemic when you start to think about it.

It's not that I really expected the film to have an incredible story with great character development, but there's not much going on here at all. I did find myself laughing at some of the lines, but that doesn't mean that there's a lot going on here.

The film is obviously low-budget. If you hadn't noticed at the start, then you'll notice once they reveal the mole man at the end, looks very DIY. But that's to be expected and it's not like that will keep me from giving a movie a good score if it at least delivers an entertaining experience.

I think people place a lot of needless importance on the budget of a particular film. So I don't typically worry about the budget of the film, I just worry if it offers an entertaining experience with a good script with an energetic tone and a solid cast.

You don't need all of those that I just mentioned, but at the very least having 2 of them is good enough for me. Unfortunately though, this film has a good cast and that's about it. So I believe they end up elevating the script for the most part and pulling the wool over your eyes as far as realizing that the script isn't as anemic, when it actually is.

But I digress, this movie, particularly for being such a low-budget endeavor, could've been so much worse, but it wasn't. And in some ways, that's the biggest compliment you can pay a horror film.

Not terrible, but it's not something I'll ever need to watch again.