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A knowingly stupid, splattery horror-comedy with practical effects and a few inspired gags, but the thin story, uneven pacing, and grating human characters keep it from being an easy recommendation. Best approached as a midnight-movie novelty rather than a full-fledged horror-comedy standout.
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Thu · 1h 42m
Director: Steven LaMorte
Starring: David Howard Thornton, Allison Pittel, Amy Schumacher
A late-night boat ride turns into a desperate fight for survival in New York City when a mischievous mouse becomes a monstrous reality.
Steven LaMorte
David Howard Thornton, Allison Pittel, Amy Schumacher
A knowingly stupid, splattery horror-comedy with practical effects and a few inspired gags, but the thin story, uneven pacing, and grating human characters keep it from being an easy recommendation. Best approached as a midnight-movie novelty rather than a full-fledged horror-comedy standout.
Screamboat is exactly the kind of movie that announces its own limitations and then sprints straight into them. The premise is a joke, the dialogue is mostly a vehicle for setups and punchlines, and the human characters are written with all the depth of a concession-stand napkin. But the film does understand one crucial thing: if you’re going to build a horror-comedy around a killer mouse, the effects, kills, and timing need to do the heavy lifting.
That part mostly works. The practical gore is the main attraction, and the movie keeps finding ways to turn a ridiculous concept into a series of messy, crowd-pleasing bits. It has the energy of a midnight screening where the audience is half there to laugh at it and half there to cheer when it commits to the bit. When the film leans into absurdity instead of pretending to be clever, it lands better.
Still, the runtime feels longer than it should, and the pacing drags whenever the movie pauses for exposition or generic survival-movie chatter. If you like your horror-comedy crude, self-aware, and proudly lowbrow, there’s enough here to pass the time. If you want wit, tension, or memorable characters, this one will feel like a ferry ride with no destination.
ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ) willow (0.5★) · 782 likes
kinda obsessed with him being a totally different size every scene
Hailli (0.5★) · 626 likes
Things I would rather do instead of watching this again: - Sink into a bathtub of diarrhea - Carve my eyeballs out with a spoon - Lay bare ass on a bed of legos - Eat a large ziploc bag of dirt & glass - Read an Oxford Dictionary front to back while Nickelback’s Rockstar plays on an endless loop
adambolt (1.5★) · 349 likes
she cream on my boat til I willie
Sam🦧 (1.5★) · 270 likes
This payed the utmost respect to the source material, there was a steam boat and also a massive severed Willy. Just a few of my favourite lines “Who you calling asshole dick nose?” “I am the captain now” “Say cheese motherfucker!” “Don’t throw your life away for this Staten Island ferry!” “Hey steamboat fuckface!” I got what I expected, some of the most boring human characters I’ve seen and a little feral mouse waddling and shitting on a ferry. My… more
oliwier (0.5★) · 262 likes
That d*ck was half the size of that mouse
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survival horror, horror-comedy, practical effects, slapstick violence, urban nightmare, parody, monster mayhem, midnight movie
horror-comedy, practical gore, creature feature, slapstick, urban setting, midnight movie, camp, splatter, absurdist, low-budget energy