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Stan Helsing

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4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(13)
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I believe that this movie was actually entertaining. I took it for what it was and you notice that just by off the cover art of the movie. it was fun and its great to watch with friends if your just looking for some laughs without having a story that has twist and turns to confuse you. i recommend this movie and believe that its worth every penny. Its cheesy and filled with hilarious punch lines that you could joke around with your friends later.

Stan Helsing is a very funny horror comedy spoof, and I don't really understand why a majority of reviewers obviously don't care for it. Yes, it's stupid - but that goes without saying; and, yes, the ending is extremely stupid, but that doesn't take away from all of the good bits leading up to it. I'll take Stan Helsing over any of the brain-dead Scare Movie sequels any day of the week. Stan "It's Stan, not Van" Helsing (Steve Howey) is one of the most likeable underachieving slackers you're likely to run across, his buddy Teddy (Kenan Thompson) is hilarious, and his ex-girlfriend Nadine (Diora Baird) is just plain hot.

It's Halloween, and video store clerk Stan has to drop off some videos at his boss's mother's house before he, Nadine, Teddy, and Teddy's girl Mia (Desi Lydic) - an exotic dancer turned masseuse - can go to the big Halloween party. Along the way, they encounter one crazy, oftentimes dangerous, and consistently comical obstacle after another. Eventually, they find themselves trapped in Stormy Night Estates, where Stan discovers that he is expected to save the town from the menace of six monsters: Lucky (Chucky), Mason (Jason), Fweddy (Freddy Krueger), Pleatherface (Leatherface), Needlehead (Pinhead), and Michael Criers (Michael Meyers). It turns out that there's some Van Helsing in him, after all.

Interestingly enough, Ken Kirzinger (who played Jason Voorhees in Jason vs. Freddy) plays the part of Mason. You also have Leslie Nielsen playing the part of a waitress, which certainly doesn't take anything away from the comedy of the story. A number of movies are, of course, mocked along the way, and I think the whole concept works quite well. I laughed out loud several times over the course of this movie. I know a lot of people are putting Stan Helsing on their lists of the worst movies ever made, but I hope those who haven't seen it yet will give it a chance. I think it's hilarious.

The only things going for this self-proclaimed horror film parody are decent production values and attractive actresses. The movie itself, which is not really a parody of anything but just a limp comedy, is dumb and often dull. The attempts at humor are usually mean-spirited, too, and usually made at the expense of the female characters (who the producers apparently want us to look at but not respect).

Look, to carry over the vulgar parlance of the movie, I'm usually an easy lay with this sort of dumb comedy: I don't need or expect Shakespeare. Just keep things minimally engaging, throw a few chuckles my way, and I'll likely give it three stars and recommend it for some modest home entertainment. Nothing wrong with something silly and fun, after all. But "Stan Helsing" is just boring (the supreme sin of a creative work, in my book) and eye-rollingly stupid. I'm guessing that comedy icon Leslie Nielsen is thankful he was only subjected to a fairly small role in this production.

I'm sorry to say all this, as the actors and folks behind the camera seem like perfectly nice people in the 10-minute "making of" bonus feature (though the script makes me wonder about writer/director Bo Zenda), but I have to call it like I see it. In the end, if you're looking for a fun little horror comedy to get you in the mood for Halloween, let me quote one of Mr. Nielsen's much better comedies and say, "Nothing to see here, move along, nothing to see here..."

Good funny Halloween movie, cleverly blends all of the classic horror movie icons such as Michael Myers, Jason, Freddy, Chucky, Leatherface and Pinhead and makes fun of them in a humorous way. Great entertaining movie

This movie has it all hot chicks and funny guys. I love this movie its hilarious and throws some funny jokes in it. It makes fun of all the horror icons from the 80's and 70's. Hot naked chicks in this movie too, which is a plus. The cast of the movie was great, I love Steve Howey as Stan Helsing because he was funny. I grew up watching Kenan Thompson in all that and all the tv shows he is also hilarious in this movie. Who ever did Diora Baird's makeup and hair for this movie deserves an award because she looks freaking fantastic looking in this movie.

First off, I'm not a fan of the "Scary Movie" franchise. I don't think I've even seen any of them. If I had, I may not have found Stan Helsing to be as funny as I did, since many people are saying the Scary Movie films are far funnier. I DO however, like horror movies in general, and do enjoy a good slasher flick every now and then. I don't generally go for spoofs or parodies all that much (Mel Brooks classics notwithstanding), but I was bored one afternoon and found Stan Helsing showing for free On Demand, so I thought I'd have a look. It took a little while for me to get into it, but once I did, I was totally loving it!

Steve Howey plays the title character, Stan Helsing, a lovable twenty-something loser stuck in a dead-end job, with no greater ambition than to get high, get laid, and otherwise not get involved. He hooks up on Halloween night with three friends, including his ex-girlfriend Nadine (played by smoking hot Diora Baird) to go to a party. But first, he has to make a detour to deliver some rental movies to Stormy Night Estates, and that's when the fun begins. Stan and his ex, along with their friends, Mia (played by the equally hot Desi Lydic) and Teddy (funnyman Kenan Thompson), make this a detour definitely worth taking.

What follows is a huge dose of slap-your-forehead silly, outrageous, sexy, and sometimes just plain dumb humor. The cast seems to having a lot fun with it, and the karaoke sequences just seem to add to the sheer lunacy of it all. The always funny Leslie Nielsen, in one of his last roles, is on hand in drag to add his own brand of deadpan silliness to the proceedings. And when the "Monsters" show up - including parodies of Jason Vorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Chucky, Pinhead, and Leatherface, Stan Helsing the slacker somehow begins channeling his Van Helsing heritage, and ends up as the most unlikely of heroes, saving the day (or night, in this case).

I have to admit that with a title like Stan Helsing, I somehow expected Stan to square off against parodies of the classic Universal monsters, rather than the more modern "slashers". Perhaps if there's ever a sequel made (fat chance, I'm sure all the haters would say), thay could somehow figure out a way to make this happen. Either way,I enjoyed this film a whole lot more than thought I would. I don't know why it's so widely reviled. I found it to be a great way to kill 90 minutes plus on an afternoon, and will definitely be watching it again - most likely on or around Halloween. I think it would make a terrific party movie. If you're a fan of slasher movies, and don't mind a broad parody going for cheap laughs and taking potshots at some of the most iconic figures from those films, you could do much worse than Stan Helsing. I know I seem to be in the minority, as a lot of people are saying there isn't anything much worse THAN Stan Helsing, but I gave it a shot, and I'm glad I did! Perhaps you should too.

Stan Helsing is probably one of the greatest spoof movies out there! It's definitely my kind of film, and isn't as bad as some of the reviews say it is...the production value is great, not one of those crappy home video looking films, and the cast is phenomenal. It's my go to movie when there is nothing else to watch, and definitely, check out the commentary because its really good. Don't hate on this movie! :)

This movie was okay, but I have definitely seen better as far as these kinds of movies are concerned. It had some pretty funny parts, (I had a good laugh at the monster karaoke at the end). Not to mention this was one of Lesley Nielson's last films, so that gives it a little cred too. Overall, I'd say it's probably a good one time watch but probably not much more.

It looks as if the cast had fun making this movie. Unfortunately, that fun doesn't translate into a funny film. Because I received a preview copy, I watched the whole thing, but had I rented or bought the movie, I'd have given up after at most fifteen minutes. At least this way, I know that I'd have been right.

The story, such as it is, involves four friends on their way to a Halloween party. One of the friends is the title character (played by Steve Howey, who, it seems, is supposed to kill "the six biggest movie monsters of all time" (according to the director). As a result of various detours, none of which has any particular purpose except to serve as fodder for jokes, the characters never make it to the party but instead go through numerous allusions to horror movies, some obvious (as in the character "Fweddy," a very slight parody of Freddy from A Nightmare on Elm Street) and some not so obvious. (In case you're wondering, the six monsters are Pinhead, Chucky, Jason, Freddy Kreuger, Leatherface, and Michael Myers.)

Unfortunately, the humor didn't work for me, and even Leslie Nielsen fails to save this mess. Airplane! this isn't. Rather, it's strictly for those who think sex jokes are automatically funny and can sustain a movie.

Extras include: Commentary with the writer/director and two of the cast, a "making of" featurette, a few extended or deleted scenes, outtakes, the trailer, a still gallery, and a storyboard gallery.

This is a parody type film about a guy named Stan Helsing who works in a videostore, goes to find a party with a couple friends and encounters a variety of horror movie villains along the way, such as Pinhead, Chucky, Micheal Myers, etc.. now Stans on a mission to save his town from the monsters.

No good acting, not funny and slapstick humor at it's worst. If you want to watch a bad movie then get it. If not don't bother. It's not a good spoof or a good movie.