THE THIRD SATURDAY IN OCTOBER PART V (2022)

THE THIRD SATURDAY IN OCTOBER PART V (2022)

Tagline: Nope.

(Horror, Slasher, Sharon Just Wants a Pepperoni Pizza) [R]

Note: This movie doesn’t have an MPA rating, but definitely would have been rated [R].

In this one, Jakkariah is back again after years of killing on THE THIRD SATURDAY OF OCTOBER. This time we are taking to the year 1994 and just bypassing THE THIRD SATURDAY IN OCTOBER PART II–IV to get to this one. I have no idea why. Tonight Maggie is babysitting PJ while her parents go to the big football game. Hoping that PJ would be perfectly happy watching VHS movies, she opts to hang out with Maggie and her idiot friends for a football-watching party of their own. Powered by “autumn” can anything stop the madness that is Jakkariah?

First off, this movie claims it’s the 4th sequel in the series, but I guess that is meant to be a joke. I am pretty sure as of 2023, there are only 2 of these. The opening also states that the killer is powered by “autumn” as I stated in the opening. Now that’s funny. 

The soundtrack is vastly improved in this one compared to the first. The score is still pretty silly and to be honest, if the cinematography was purposely trying to be bad, they worked that magic on this one.  

During this film, I was starting to wonder if this killer steals his gas, or how that works? Most killers in horror flicks kind of like to walk around to save on gas. Not this dude. He’s driving a hearse everywhere he goes. I mean, gas was cheap in the 90s but I can’t imagine this guy just walks up to the gas station and gasses that sucker up.

Maggie in this movie reminds me of this babysitter I had growing up named Star. She literally lets PJ pick whatever movie she wants to rent. This girl ends up renting NUKE EM HIGH and HOOSIERS. Star had zero idea of what was appropriate. So that is how I ended up seeing BASKET CASE and other crazy horror flicks at the age of 9. There are some comedic elements to this movie, but it’s definitely not a drop down on the floor and roll around laughing. It’s more of the kind of humor you would get in a GEICO commercial. 

Acting-wise, you can definitely do worse than Kansas Bowling who plays Maggie and does a decent job. Kansas is already pretty much a B-movie scream queen with 9 projects on the way and appearances in MURDERCISE, DEATH RIDER IN THE HOUSE OF VAMPIRES, and PSYCHO APE! among others. Parker Love Bowling plays Sharon and also does a pretty good job in this. She went to a party on this Saturday night, I’ll tell you that story it’ll be alright, uh huh, it ain’t no big thing. By the way, I am pretty sure Parker Love and Kansas are related. Erin Ownbey is fine as Amy. She is best known for the Ozark TV series. Poppy Cunningham is also pretty good as PJ. She is relatively new to acting. I liked Autumnn Jaide in this as Holcomb. The only person I really couldn’t stand was Taylor Smith as Peter. Dude almost ruins this movie. I hope he is better in other roles. 

There are some really dorky dancing sequences in this movie, but they are kind of on par with the dancing scene in FRIDAY THE 13TH: A NEW BEGINNING. Amy and Holcomb mess with Peter and that is pretty classic. I have no idea what everyone has against Sharon. She gets really jacked up in this flick, so I am telling you straight up, she is not your final girl here. This is one of the few cases where the mask the killer is wearing is so lame, it takes away from the horror element. There are some gnarly kills in this though, so it is what it is. 

Overall this is a massive improvement over the first one, but I did miss Ricky Dean Logan. That character was great in the first one. I tried to like Maggie, but she’s super stupid. This movie did accomplish making me want to go to Catfish Cabin.

THE THIRD SATURDAY IN OCTOBER PART V gets a 5 out of 7. If you are not really down with 80s and 90s-style cheese horror, skip this thing.

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