Well, it’s 2025 and Popeye slid right into public domain so here’s the latest cash grab horror. Joining the illustrious Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey and The Mouse Trap, Popeye sets our illustrious sailor man on a bloody, low budget quickie killing spree.

In this case, a better killing spree that some of the other public domain horror. This isn’t a good movie but it’s slightly better written and amusingly bloody in a sometimes grotesquely over the top way.

I was actually thinking I’d score it higher at first and, if it were a shorter film, I would have. But like many such flicks, the need to approximate ninety minutes leaves them spinning their wheels, trying to find things for their iffy actors to do between kills.

The Popeye prosthetic isn’t terrible but doesn’t emote well through the application. But he does have an oversized face and bloated arms from all eating all that spinach. He doesn’t talk much and doesn’t have that Popeye voice when he does.

This film does very little with Popeye iconography beyond his massive arms. There are a few late film references at least. But I was constantly rewriting it in my head to have a plot that paid off his status as a sailor. Or maybe something humorously epic with his mortal enemy Bluto.

So, yeah, this is a decently bad film. If it’s something your interesting in – Popeye as slasher villain – you might have a good time in a bad movie. Or at least not a miserable time.

Score: 67