Big Top Evil

This movie was better than I expected for a low budget horror movie. Bill Moseley was amazing in every scene he was in. What a great performance by a horror icon. Too bad he wasn't in more scenes though.

This movie really feels like it should have been released in the late 2000's. The characters behavior, all party hardy bro stuff, the rock soundtrack, the grimy faux grindhouse style, and the harsh violence all make this feel like it should have been released sometime shortly after movies like The Devil's Rejects and Hostel. Heck, it even features Bill Moseley in a sort of extended cameo as the murderous leader of a carnival.

In this movie, gypsy carny crooks rove around looking for people to swindle or enslave and force to take part in their act. Enter a group of generic dumb young people that go off the beaten trail looking for whatever and find the killers. Bloodshed ensues.

Unsurprisingly, this isn't a very professional outing. It's cheap looking and not well put together. Acting is, eh, okay, and the Bill Moseley stuff is fun.There's also a gorgeous female carny dancer played by Austin Judd. Okay, so it's obvious she's a rip off of Sheri Moon's Baby Firefly but I still really liked her and hope to see her in more stuff.

The big issues here are pacing and payoff. The gore is mostly crammed into the second half of the movie and by the time it kicked in, I was already half checked out. There are some okay kills though. And a note to the filmmakers, don't tease nudity if you're not going to deliver. That happens multiple times and it's better if you just don't bother instead of going to the trouble of setting up a sex scene or a shower scene and then shooting around the girl's modesty. Just stupid and pointless.

This movie bored me more than anything and it's overall pretty skippable. There are worse movies but I still wouldn't fool with it.

Big Top Evil (2019) is a movie that I recently watched on Prime and follows a group of friends who picks up the wrong hitchhiker. A gorgeous blond hitchhiker tells the group of friends about a safe place to stay and a local circus 🎪 they absolutely have to attend. The friends reluctantly visit the circus and almost instantly wish they never did.

This movie is codirected by Sean Haitz (Cannibal Comedian) and Chris Potter (directorial debut) and stars Bill Moseley (Night of the Living Dead), J. LaRose (Saw III), Jisaura Cardinale (Powerpuff Girls: The Long Way Back), Sean Haitz (Mangrove Slasher 2) and Austin Judd (Cannibal Comedian).

This is one of those movies with a $30,000 budget and did the best they could with it. The storyline is straightforward, cliche, not overly imaginative but still entertaining enough to watch unfold. This felt like it was trying to feel like a Rob Zombie movie. I was surprised Bill Mosley was in this and he was definitely the best part of the movie. Candy and Casey were pretty hot and there was some random nudity here and there. While the majority of the film is frustrating, the last 20 minutes was a lot of fun we. If someone told me this is going to be low budget and gave me an entire film like the end, I would have been thoroughly entertained.

Overall, this is an average addition to the horror genre that's worth watching once for horror enthusiasts. I would score this a 5/10 and recommend seeing it once.

Another low budget community college film school dropout schlock movie written and filmed by incompetent people who thought making a movie was easier than they thought.

No color grading, no mastering of the sound, a script that was written in a drunken Tuesday night. And one take scenes.

Avoid.

I've been blazing through horror films (because people in my country are getting sick, or something). It's gross.

Anyway, having screened hundreds of hours of movies created on a shoestring budget-I put this in the camp of the entertaining. Occasionally, it feels like an homage to an homage; but I still had fun with it.

Worth viewing if you're willing to go down the road less traveled.