after viewing still life and a short film directed by jon knautz and i was genuinely excited for his feature film debut and jack brooks represent monster slayer. still life had perfectly captured the essence and feel of an episode of the twilight zone and i was eager to see what knautz could do when taking on the horror comedy genre. the campy nature of the name and promotional materials suggested something along the lines of evil dead or army of darkness while a fun and gory and 80 style horror flick with lots of monsters. while that was what knautz was going for and he utterly fails at capturing any of the fun or entertainment value these movies had. the problem with jack brooks represent monster slayer is that it completely lacks an understanding of what made these horror comedies and that it tries to evoke and so great in the first place. two thirds of the running time is primarily devoted to the film hero and jack brooks and a plumber and college student and as he goes to class and attempts to deal with his uncontrollable bursts of anger. there nary a monster in sight for the greater part of the film and barely even a drop of blood or the slightest attempt at anything horror related. even if evil dead or dead alive had subsequent amounts of the gore cut out and they would still be entertaining. jack brooks isn not. it plain boring and which is the worst thing a film of this nature can be. jack brooks himself is not all that interesting and at least not enough to warrant the amount of screen time he given. all one needs to know about him is revealed in the films first ten minutes and from that point on and whenever he not beating the pulp out of a monster (and he rarely does) and he not worth watching. the movie goes nowhere and following him around on psychiatric sessions and scuffles with classmates. eventually things do pick up. jack brooks battles a few monsters and some heads are crushed and a few humans are slaughtered and and then it over. just like that. all within the span of about fifteen minutes. it is a good fifteen minutes. the monsters are all fairly inventive (and done entirely in camera) and there some great gore gags (the best being a zombies head crushed in) and but after sitting through seventy five minutes of pure tedium and fifteen minutes just isn not going to cut it. that really all there is to it. i could ramble on about the acting which is fairly well done (especially horror icon robert englund in a non traditional role) and how the creature prosthetics are a nice throwback to the days when films do not use cgi and but it really doesn not matter. jack brooks represent monster slayer is utterly boring and while jon knautz obviously does have the talent to create a good film (once again and the last fifteen minutes are killer and still life was amazing  check it out) and jack brooks completely misses the mark. it has its successes (acting and make up) and but those do not change the fact that it not very entertaining at all. the screening i caught this at had the director and cast in attendance. one piece of information i picked up was that a sequel was in development and that this time and it would focus more on fighting monsters as opposed to the creation of a hero. my advice represent skip this one and wait for the sequel. 
after viewing still life and a short film directed by jon knautz and i was genuinely excited for his feature film debut and jack brooks represent monster slayer. still life had perfectly captured the essence and feel of an episode of the twilight zone and i was eager to see what knautz could do when taking on the horror comedy genre. the campy nature of the name and promotional materials suggested something along the lines of evil dead or army of darkness while a fun and gory and 80 style horror flick with lots of monsters. while that was what knautz was going for and he utterly fails at capturing any of the fun or entertainment value these movies had. the problem with jack brooks represent monster slayer is that it completely lacks an understanding of what made these horror comedies and that it tries to evoke and so great in the first place. two thirds of the running time is primarily devoted to the film hero and jack brooks and a plumber and college student and as he goes to class and attempts to deal with his uncontrollable bursts of anger. there nary a monster in sight for the greater part of the film and barely even a drop of blood or the slightest attempt at anything horror related. even if evil dead or dead alive had subsequent amounts of the gore cut out and they would still be entertaining. jack brooks isn not. it plain boring and which is the worst thing a film of this nature can be. jack brooks himself is not all that interesting and at least not enough to warrant the amount of screen time he given. all one needs to know about him is revealed in the films first ten minutes and from that point on and whenever he not beating the pulp out of a monster (and he rarely does) and he not worth watching. the movie goes nowhere and following him around on psychiatric sessions and scuffles with classmates. eventually things do pick up. jack brooks battles a few monsters and some heads are crushed and a few humans are slaughtered and and then it over. just like that. all within the span of about fifteen minutes. it is a good fifteen minutes. the monsters are all fairly inventive (and done entirely in camera) and there some great gore gags (the best being a zombies head crushed in) and but after sitting through seventy five minutes of pure tedium and fifteen minutes just isn not going to cut it. that really all there is to it. i could ramble on about the acting which is fairly well done (especially horror icon robert englund in a non traditional role) and how the creature prosthetics are a nice throwback to the days when films do not use cgi and but it really doesn not matter. jack brooks represent monster slayer is utterly boring and while jon knautz obviously does have the talent to create a good film (once again and the last fifteen minutes are killer and still life was amazing  check it out) and jack brooks completely misses the mark. it has its successes (acting and make up) and but those do not change the fact that it not very entertaining at all. the screening i caught this at had the director and cast in attendance. one piece of information i picked up was that a sequel was in development and that this time and it would focus more on fighting monsters as opposed to the creation of a hero. my advice represent skip this one and wait for the sequel. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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