Stan Helsing (2009)

A spoof on many horror movie series. Ending his shift at the video rental, Stan's picked up by his BFF and 2 cute girls, all going to a Halloween party. Will they even get there?

Director:

Bo Zenga

Writer:

Bo Zenga

Stars:

Steve Howey, Diora Baird, Kenan Thompson

Bottom Rated Movies #86 | 1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Steve Howey	...	Stan Helsing
Diora Baird	...	Nadine
Kenan Thompson	...	Teddy
Desi Lydic	...	Mia
Leslie Nielsen	...	Kay
Kit Zenga	...	Orphan
Darren Moore	...	Crazy
Twan Holliday	...	Pleatherface (as Twan Holiday)
Ben Cotton	...	Fweddy
Travis MacDonald	...	Hitcher
Lee Tichon	...	Michael Crier
Ken Kirzinger	...	Mason
Charles Zuckermann	...	Needlehead
Jeff Gulka	...	Lucky
Chad Krowchuk	...	Sully

Storyline

It's Halloween night, and slacker video clerk Stan Helsing along with his insanely sexy ex-girlfriend , best buddy and an exotic dancer/'massage therapist' - detours into a town cursed by the biggest monsters in movie history: Freddy, Jason , Pinhead , Leatherface , Chucky , & Michael Myers.

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Plot Keywords:

slapstick comedy | striptease | sexual innuendo | woman squeezing another woman's breast | touching breasts | 

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Taglines:

The most feared monsters in cinematic have met their match.

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for crude and sexual content, some drug use and language

Did You Know?

Trivia

Kenan Thompson wears a Superman spoof costume in the movie. He had previously done so while playing Superdude on All That (1994).

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Goofs

When they're tossing the hitchhiker out the back of the van, there's a lot of light behind them, possibly from another car. In the next shot, after the hiker is gone, the light is no longer there.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Stan Helsing: [picking up a ringing phone] Schlockbuster. Happy Halloween.
[pause]
Stan Helsing: Yeah yeah yeah, we carry porn.
[pause]
Stan Helsing: What do I recommend? Well... "Schindler's Fist", "How Stella Got Her Tube Packed", "Six Degrees of Penatration". This is a good one. "Glad He Ate Her".
[pause]
Stan Helsing: Yeah, yeah, okay. You're welcome, Grandma.

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Crazy Credits

The makeup department is listed in the end credits with humorous nicknames like "Jeny 'Puppet-Sex' Cassady" and "Werner 'Monkey Gland' Pretorius").

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Connections

References The Munsters (1964)

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Soundtracks

Touch Ya Body
Written by Richard L. Garcia, Rosel A. Minter and Christopher Leigh Curtis
Performed by Chuck Preston

User Reviews

A Nutshell Review: Stan Helsing

There are some comedies that just try too hard, and Stan Helsing falls into this category. Written and directed by Bo Zenga who has more producing credits and making his directorial debut, Stan Helsing stars a cast of relative unknowns hobbled together to forcefully create laugh-a-minute sequences that don't always hit their marks, but instead fall quite short in not being silly for silliness sake.

One thing's for sure though, is that Zenga dug deep to throw plenty of movie references from the horror genre into his comedy, especially when the villains turn out to be cheap knockoffs of their real cult counterparts, with Fweddy (Freddy from A Nightmare from Elm Street), Mason (Jason from Friday the 13th), Needlehead (Pinhead from Hellraiser), Pleatherface (Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Lucky (Chucky from Child's Play) and Michael Crier (Michael Myers from Halloween), and not including minor ones such as the Hitcher, and a giant cockroach. But ultimately there's nothing here to make this film anywhere near being horrific, except that the end product is quite horrific in itself.

On the other corner of the ring of good, we follow the adventures of a foursome consisting of the slacker Schlockbuster video clerk Stan Helsing (Steve Howey) whom everyone mistakes from Van Helsing the monster exterminator, who has been tasked to drop off some videos en route to his Halloween party with hottie ex-girlfriend Nadine (Diora Baird), his best friend Teddy (Kenan Thompson) and an exotic dancer cum massage therapist (interpret this as you will!) Mia (Desi Lydic), on a road trip filled with last minute detours leading from point to point and incident filled. The entire journey unravels with inexplicable coincidences relying on cliché after cliché to bring on some cheap laughs, which when proved inadequate there's always the odd toilet joke to stink bomb everything.

Dialogue is full of sexual double meanings, with Mia being the group idiot to fall for, or become the butt of the jokes. Nothing in the narrative ever makes much good sense other than to react or create a hilarious situation for our foursome to get into, and filmmakers perhaps need to stop and take stock of the comedy genre now that spoofing pop culture, or pop icons, are no longer a quick and easy way to surprise and satisfy an audience, and not when the impersonations was far from their mark.

Don't get me wrong that I've lost my funny bone, but this relatively cheap production didn't have much to laugh at. What's more painful is that it starred the late Leslie Nielsen in drag and makeup as a bar waitress, and seemed more like a desperate role meant for paying the bills. Filled with jokes with some being naughty while others nonsensical and silly, probably the scenes set within the video store bookending the film with patrons providing sight gags and trash talking became the main highlights.

Details

Country:

Canada USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 March 2010 (Russia)

Also Known As:

Stan Helsing

Filming Locations:

Cloverdale, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$1,475,003

Company Credits

Production Co:

Boz Productions, Insight Film Studios, Helsing Releasing

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min 92 min (edited)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS (5.1)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1