Killjoy 3 (2010)

ridiculous rating

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I hated the first two Killjoy movies, and was expecting Kiljoy 3 to be even worse. So imagine my surprise when I found it to be the best of the series by a significant margin, and that it was reasonably good. It is not perfect, the human acting is rather poor with the characters clichéd and the dialogue rather cheesy. The effects are also on the cheap side, the film drags at times, and apart from the nice final scene some of the second half is rather dumb and unsatisfying, a longer length might have helped. However, the camera work is better than the amateurish mobile-phone-shot-like camera work of especially the second film, and the make-up for Killjoy and Batty Boop is quite good I thought. The story is not exceptional as such but it is much less derivative and I think less predictable than the previous two, and Killjoy is at his least annoying here, actually having some witty one-liners and some signs of a menacing presence. Batty Boop is the character who steals the film though, in fact all the minions are welcome touches. All in all, I was surprised by this. It is not a great movie, but considering the awfulness of the first two movies it is saying a lot when I say this was the best of the series. 5/10 Bethany Cox

I liked the movie. Trent Haaga and Victoria DeMare obviously were having fun with their roles and they were the best actors of the bunch in my opinion.I do wish there had been a larger body count and some gore. What there was, was passable. I do understand this is a low budget flick so I forgive the non-gore, although Killjoy's make up was pretty cool. Another plus: the image/colors looked really, REALLY good on my HDTV. Some scenes reminded me a lot of Nightmare on Elm Street, but I can forgive that too.Kudos for getting Mr. Haaga back! I've watched all 3 films now, my favorite still part 2, followed by this sequel and in last place the first one.I would definitely watch part 4 if there is another sequel :-)

This is hands down the absolute worst movie I have EVER seen in my entire life. I can't even fathom how the other person that reviewed this could possibly have anything good to say. I went into this expecting a short, bloody, funny, cheesy, horror film with some entertaining blood and guts. What I got instead can be described as "Stephen King's IT: The after school special. If the horrible acting in the first 10 minutes doesn't convince you this movie is the worst thing you'll ever watch... just wait. Honestly, I think this movie would entertain a 3 year old, and they would not be scared. Pitiful and just God awful. Please save yourself and do not watch this video. It has nothing to offer. NOT funny, NOT scary, NOT Gory, zip, zilch, nada, Nothing, The end.

I have to say, I am judging this movie based off what it is. Five years ago when "Hustle and Flow" came to theaters people spoke highly of it....why? Because it was a movie about a low-life pimp that had dreams of becoming a famous rapper, with key songs like "Whip that trick" and "Hard out here for a Pimp"......so taking all things into consideration, it was a good movie because when you are telling a story like this, they did the very best they could, and Terrance Howard's performance was captivating.....moving now to a smaller scale...a much smaller scale.Killjoy 3 was a third installment to an extremely sup-bar horror series made by one of the most industrial sup-bar production companies of all time. It's no secret, Full Moon's Charlie Band is more of a good business man than a good filmmaker. His budgets are usually 100K, and they usually make 10 times that....smart guy. It was also a movie that did not feature a single name actor. Yes I know Darrow Ingus has worked in movies for decades, yes I know Spiral Jackson is a young and up and coming actor, yes I also know Trent Hagga is an established writer....but I only know that after looking every single one of them up on multiple sites, and if I wasn't reading their names off the stationary as we speak, then I still wouldn't know how to spell them! To make a long story short, for as many strikes as this movie already had against it, it was good.The story was eh...the duologue was pure, but the execution by directed John Lechago was well done.The make-up, I give an A+ obviously the best feature in the movie was the work done on Freakshow, Batty, Punch, and the name character himself. The blood on Zilla after he gets beat up by Punchy is also very well done, as he is on the floor coughing up blood.The acting, the best performance obviously goes to the name character, Trent Hagga returned as Killjoy only to improve upon the character, in a lot of ways he reminded me of the Dark Knight's Joker. The Proffesor holds his own as well, with a high authoritative presence, you can tell we are looking at a seasoned actor. I must say, out of all the characters in the movie, Zilla is the only one I actually wanted to see stay alive, of course we all knew it would be Sandy. Spiral Jackson really made me like this character as I could see him coming back for a fourth installment: Killjoy 4, Zilla Revenge!