Well, you can’t say horror films aren’t taking enough risks these days.

Mr. Crocket, which is out on Hulu this weekend just in time for the Halloween rush, is something that yearns to be remembered as a campy classic to be enjoyed as after the bars are closed and you want be distracted as your hangover arrives.

But as anything else in the realm of movie entertainment, you can’t get near it.

Mr. Crocket (Elvis Nolasco) is the spirit of a troubled kids TV host, who abducts children through an old VHS tape, and murders their parents for anything as trivial as forcing their kids to go to bed when they don’t want to. When he stumbles across Summer (Jerrika Hinton) and her son Major, who just lost their husband/dad he decides to pounce and Summer won’t stop until Mr. Crocket stops taking children once and for all.

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It’s a cheesy and very intentional mess, but it’s not scary, it’s not suspenseful, and we don’t have any reasons to get invested into what we’re watching. That may very well be the point, but there is not a lot of reasons to enjoy the movie even in that regard.

Perhaps we’re supposed to enjoy the goofiness of it all. Some of the positives are that the ultra gory kills are done in a way that we hardly ever see anymore. We’re talking about some serious blood and old school scary movie killing here. And bless Nolasco. Mr. Crocket is a joke, but he is acting his tail off from beginning to end.

Take it for what it is. Me? I can’t take it for a good movie. Maybe we’ll still be talking about it in 10 years over how bad it is.

And that might be the point.

Mr. Crocket:

Grade: D

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