SLOTHERHOUSE (2023)

SLOTHERHOUSE (2023)

Tagline: Don't rush, die slow.

(Horror, Comedy, Stop…I’ve Got A Thing Going Here) [PG-13]

It is a wild animal; you don’t even know what it eats.

In this one, Emily Young really just wants to be more popular and so far just being herself hasn’t quite worked out. She meets a man selling exotic animals at the mall and ends up going to purchase a cute sloth at his place, only no one is there. She ends up taking the sloth she wanted home, and naming her “Alpha”. Emily’s sorority mother Ms. Mayflower then talks her into running for sorority president. Alpha becomes the sorority mascot and both her and Emily become the talk of the internet. It doesn’t take long before girls start going missing…welcome to the SLOTHERHOUSE. 

First off, this is by far one of the funniest comedy horror flicks I have seen in a long time and I have seen my share. I gravitate towards cheesy, fun, humorous horror not super serious or realistic stuff. So if you are giving me a movie where a sloth is the killer, my money is just flying into your hand. I ran out to the first theatrical showing of this I could find. 

What we do not get is a lot of gore. Just as a heads up, if you came to see tons of guts or any of that, this thing might not be your cup of tea. It is meant way more as a high-quality quality well-crafted and brilliantly written horror comedy for the ages. I mean this thing is definitely asking you to check your brains as the door, because why can’t this sloth do all the things it does? Why? Tell me? Just kidding, but definitely go into this expecting total horror nonsense, because once this thing gets going it doesn’t let up. 

Acting wise we get Lisa Ambalavanar as Emily, best known as Jinx from the TV show “Titans”. She is completely fantastic in this and her character reminds me a LOT of Liv in WILLY’S WONDERLAND. Olivia Rouyre plays Emily’s close friend Madison who is kind of a pain in the neck, but is also probably the one you really needed to listen to the first time. Olivia’s performance is solid. Annamaria Serda plays another one of Emily’s friends named Dakota. I thought her performance was great and she provides a decent bit of the comedy. Sydney Craven plays Brianna in this and kills it. She is basically the most popular girl in the sorority but is ultra-mean. Rounding out the main cast we get Tiff Stevenson who plays the super kind sorority mother (I guess that’s what they call her position), Ms. Mayflower. She does not want you to be like her, at least in one aspect. 

All I can say is this thing is a total blast and is well put together on the budget they had. The soundtrack is awesome; the score is solid. I thought the pacing at the beginning was slightly slower than it needed to be and we could have gotten to the mayhem a bit sooner. 

If I have any complaints, it’s that there are too many cutaways. A lot of the murders are very quick flashes that could have been slowed down if they didn’t spend so much time getting the ball rolling. It’s not that I need to see gore, but this is a horror flick so a bit more of the sloth doing murder sloth stuff would have helped. However, because the humor is fast and furious this is more of a nitpicky thing than anything else. The ending delivers and I really really hope we get a sequel. 

SLOTHERHOUSE gets a 7 out of 7. It’s hard to walk out of the theater having that much fun and give it anything else.

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