The Mean One

Been looking for other good childhood horror movies and this one was class. Great ending and stuff. Bit too good acting for me though I like horrible acting and just killing. But still a good change up. Ho ho ho.

This was basically "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" meets "Terrifier" - and it was a complete and utter disappointment. I mean, I was bored with in the first five minutes of the movie. The directing and editing were basically amateurish; the special effects were nothing special; didn't really care for the music; the story and writing were just nothing to brag about; and the acting was pretty bland and boring. It was also riddled with clichés that we've seen over a dozen different times - which just made it worse in the long run. Heck, no one in this movie even has any chemistry. And those that do have chemistry come off as rushed and pointless. Also, I feel that the villain's murderous behavior being sparked just by being called a mean name by a little girl...is down right petty. Not the mention the way the monster just suddenly died - what? The only real descent thing in the movie was the narrating. And the design for The Mean One was also good; though I suppose that's where most of the budget went to. I guess there were moments where it actually felt like a genuine horror flick. But those moments were just too small to even matter in the end. I get that it was supposed to be a parody...but even those have to be done right - otherwise it's just people wasting their times on a project that was even taken seriously to begin with. I honestly wanted to like the villain, because he was almost like a cross between Jim Carrey's "Grinch" and David Howard Thornton's "Art the Clown" (which is very odd because David Howard Thornton plays "The Mean One" in the movie). A very interesting mix...if it was done right at least.

“The Mean One” es con todo respeto terrible en todo aspecto; tiene una de las peores y más torpes ediciones que he visto, narrativamente es horrible, no hay profundidad en nada, y en lo poco que hay cómo la revelación de las motivaciones del monstruo es por lo menos ridícula. Tiene una de las peores actuaciones grupales que he visto, salvo por John Bigham que no lo hace bien, pero lo hace mejor que el resto, todos están terribles. No terminas por creer ninguna de las reacciones de los protagonistas; inclusive tiene una de las bandas sonoras más molestas y simples que he oído, está colocada de manera muy torpe a lo largo del desarrollo de esta. Normalmente estas películas de terror de bajo presupuesto solo se salvan por la carnicería mostrada en pantalla, pero esta ni en ese aspecto se salva, ya que cada escena gore oculta las matanzas, en una película clasificación para adultos, ni siquiera pudo ser explicita, cada escena es interrumpida por un corte o porque la cámara se aleja de ella, haciendo que cada una sea aún más terrible que la anterior, sin contar la sangre CGI que la hace por lo menos ridícula. Entiendo que al ser una película de bajo presupuesto tienen que optar por usar contenido “stock footage”, pero lo hacen de una forma tan obvia que resulta por lo menos gracioso, hay hasta una fotografía que animaron en la parte final de esta. Siempre intento resaltar por lo menos alguna cosa buena de cada película; pero esta me lo hizo difícil. Repito, no es por ser “mamador”, ya todos sabemos a lo que vamos cuando vemos una película de terror de estas características que desde el poster te grita que será mala, pero esta por más que la pienso no puedo encontrar ningún aspecto rescatable, todo está hecho con las patas, salvo tal vez por uno que otro chiste que está bien, realmente no hay por donde defender esta película, que supongo que está bien solo para ver con amigos.

Grinch (Finch! drink for Finch!) looked great. Something was missing. Origin ? More Grinch? I don't know.

Please read my review of the Winnie the Pooh horror film. It’s the same here. Bad acting, bad costume, outrageous story, just ignore it, you're missing nothing in life.

This movie is just what I wanted. A horror grinch story. They present it as a grinch story from the dialog, right down to the costume. It has just the right amount of gore for horror fans to enjoy. I will watch again next December. I am going to add it to my Christmas movie list.

The story is a familiar one, but with a twist. There are hokey parts throughout the entire movie, but it was entertaining and certainly had a Christmas feel- even though it had gore. The makeup for DHT 'The Mean One' was very, very good. The filming seemed to go between a home video and movie camera, so that bothered me. We did enjoy it. Just not sure it would be on our radar to watch again.

Firstly, the Mean One (aka Grinch) was very well done from makeup to acting, the rest fell a bit short. The main actors were ok, but the secondary character acting was high school drama school level. Some of the kills were well done. The story itself was decent although it did have a built-in template so it would be hard to mess that up. Overall, it's a fun movie to revisit during the Christmas season.

The movie should be better, the budget doesn’t look that bad, the things how we’re going were good, but the way the movie react, feels like a joke, but the movie is well scary enough

Wow. This movie is...... Yeah.. don't waste your time.