This is a fun little movie about a too-naive boy named Dougie who is obsessed with a popular video game Satan’s Little Helper. As the movie opens Dougie is excited (creepily excited) to see his sister who is coming home from college just in time for Halloween but, unfortunately, he’s crushed to find out that sis has brought home her boyfriend as well. While Dougie goes off sulking he spots a person in a tacky costume and devil mask who seems to be up to some mischief. Dougie is convinced that the stranger is Satan and the boy begs to tag along and play the part of the little helper.
Now whether or not this masked stranger is, in fact, Satan, he is silent throughout and has an insatiable blood-lust. Satan goes about town merrily slaying people and otherwise causing chaos. Dougie is so caught up in his video game world and thinking that “Satan” is just playing around that the boy doesn’t notice the real danger. In one scene, Satan is pushing Dougie in a shopping cart through a busy parking lot. Dougie begins to look at the people around (the pregnant woman, the old man, etc.) as video game targets and taunts Satan into going after them.
Overall, there’s a humorously high body count, a kid that’s not too annoying despite how blind he is to the chaos he’s helping contribute to, a sister that’s hot enough that Dougie’s creepy obsession with her is sorta understandable, and Amanda Plummer as the mom! The movie has enough quirky charm that by the time Dougie realizes that Satan is a bad guy (shocker!) you actually feel kinda bad for him.
-Rabid Fox
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