after view still life and a short film direct by jon knautz and i be genuinely excite for his feature film debut and jack brook represent monster slayer . still life have perfectly capture the essence and feel of an episode of the twilight zone and i be eager to see what knautz could do when take on the horror comedy genre . the campy nature of the name and promotional material suggest something along the line of evil dead or army of darkness while a fun and gory and 80 style horror flick with lot of monster . while that be what knautz be go for and he utterly fail at capture any of the fun or entertainment value these movie have . the problem with jack brook represent monster slayer be that it completely lack an understanding of what make these horror comedy and that it try to evoke and so great in the first place . two third of the running time be primarily devote to the film hero and jack brook and a plumber and college student and a he go to class and attempt to deal with his uncontrollable burst of anger . there nary a monster in sight for the great part of the film and barely even a drop of blood or the slight attempt at anything horror relate . even if evil dead or dead alive have subsequent amount of the gore cut out and they would still be entertain . jack brook isn not . it plain boring and which be the bad thing a film of this nature can be . jack brook himself be not all that interest and at least not enough to warrant the amount of screen time he give . all one need to know about him be reveal in the film first ten minute and from that point on and whenever he not beat the pulp out of a monster ( and he rarely do ) and he not worth watch . the movie go nowhere and follow him around on psychiatric session and scuffle with classmate . eventually thing do pick up . jack brook battle a few monster and some head be crush and a few human be slaughter and and then it over . just like that . all within the span of about fifteen minute . it be a good fifteen minute . the monster be all fairly inventive ( and do entirely in camera ) and there some great gore gag ( the best be a zombie head crush in ) and but after sit through seventy five minute of pure tedium and fifteen minute just isn not go to cut it . that really all there be to it . i could ramble on about the acting which be fairly well do ( especially horror icon robert englund in a non traditional role ) and how the creature prosthetics be a nice throwback to the day when film do not use cgi and but it really doesn not matter . jack brooks represent monster slayer be utterly boring and while jon knautz obviously do have the talent to create a good film ( once again and the last fifteen minute be killer and still life be amaze check it out ) and jack brook completely miss the mark . it have it success ( act and make up ) and but those do not change the fact that it not very entertain at all . the screening i catch this at have the director and cast in attendance . one piece of information i pick up be that a sequel be in development and that this time and it would focus more on fight monster a oppose to the creation of a hero . my advice represent skip this one and wait for the sequel .