Paul Konye

Let’s hear it for Popeye the Slayer Man, a title so brilliant and obvious you might wonder why it’s never been used before. The reason is quite simple: Popeye fell out of copyright in 2025 and so the intellectual property became easy pickings. Hot on the case, two movies have already appeared this year (I’m writing this in March 2025 so there could yet be more). Popeye’s Revenge got there first, in February, followed by this. Both are slasher horrors. What’s going on there then? I’ll admit that I watched this partly out of badness, prompted by my brother, who asked me if I’d seen it and then warned me not to “go … Read more