Satan's Little Helper is about this annoying little kid (and I truly mean annoying, all you wanna do throughout the movie is to drag him out from the screen and smack him hard), erhhh.. Anyway, the kid who sets out to find Satan since it's Halloween and finds this masked killer which he believes is Satan and becomes friends with him and follows him (as his little helper hence the title) around while he kills off people one by one. The kid is convinced it's not for real and just goes along with it and having a great time, and let me tell you, this kid is the worst, it's actually hard to watch this just because the kid is such a retard.
I've seen one good movie by Jeff Lieberman and that was "Squirm", although I use the word good very losely here. Anyway, I started watching this one without any real expectations, I had heard some stuff about it and it seemed like it was worth a watch, which I actually think it was even though it could've been better.
It actually kinda had the feeling "so bad it turns good" and that was what made this movie quite enjoyable in the end. Don't get me wrong here, it's very cheesy and have all these countless faults but the actual story is pretty cool and the dark humour in it are at some moments in the movie really good and funny as hell and that kinda makes up for the bad things.
Funny thing though is that the guy who plays Satan/the masked killer actually never says a word, just nods. Wait till you see it, it's better then it sounds, it's actually pretty great.
It's actually the guy who plays Satan who's the whole reason for watching this movie. There are some really funny scenes with him doing stuff and the humour is really black which gives it a great feel.
It's hard to give this movie a proper rating since it has a really cool story and some really hilarious stuff in it. On the other hand it's a low budget film and looks somewhat like a student film at times. Plus the kid, oh the kid drags it down, can't stand him, he's gonna grow up to be an asshole for sure.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Jeff Lieberman
WRITING CREDITS: Jeff Lieberman
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
CAST: Alexander Brickel, Katheryn Winnick, Stephen Graham
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 100 min
RATING: 6/10
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