Saturday Morning Mystery (2012) (Movie Review)
Directed By: Spencer Parsons
Starring: Jory Balsimo, Rebecca Beegle, Andrew Bujalski
Rated: R
A dark and bloody parody about a Scooby-Doo-like team of paranormal investigators and their devoted dog. With the crew nearing bankruptcy, they’re hired to get to the bottom of a series of spooky events at the remote Kyser mansion, an old religious school plagued by rumors of satanism and ritualistic murder. They’re experts at debunking ghost stories, so they get right to work, and despite the ominous signs that this isn’t just another greedy land-developer or bitter landlord, they set up to stay the night. When the sun goes down, the truth comes out: this place might actually be haunted…by sadistic spirits or something much, much deadlier.
While I wish they had kept the original title of Saturday Morning Massacre, Saturday Morning Mystery plays like an episode of Scooby Doo from hell. Using the very same format as that loving children’s cartoon, the film plays up ever more adult orinted take on the show and turns it into a very fun horror film that isn’t at all for the kiddies. There’s drugs, there is blood, and there is sex. The movie is a bit goofy, but the blood starts to fly in the last act.
The story goes as this, these kids have been proving many ghost tales false and have been locking up some bad guys in the process. They take a case that should put them on the map and pad their wallets on top of that. When they get to this house things start going down that they can’t apply logic to and that is when the fun starts. I really appreciate something like this and I think many of you will be in the same boat. It is different and fun and that can go a long way.
