Satan’s Little Helper is a delightful little film in which you can hear the word Satan uttered at least 20 times, see a cat used as a paintbrush, and hear a young boy’s desire to marry his sister.
Dougie, I am going to have to assume is retarded, delusional, or just an idiot. He is a young boy who is quite obsessed with a game called Satan’s Little Helper. He plays it on his computer and this really odd looking portable gaming device that I bet even WiFi Pirate has never seen. Dougie is also wearing a costume at the film’s opening, that was made for him, of Satan’s Little Helper. He is on the way with his mother (Amanda Plummer) to pick up his sister Jenna, who for some reason he says that he wants to marry. Jenna brings her boyfriend Alex home, and Dougie does not care for this. All Dougie wants to do is go trick or treating with Jenna and find Satan. And he will be damned if Alex is going to cock block him (he really only mentions marrying his sister twice, but I find this really odd and not much attention is paid to it). Angry, Dougie goes off by himself to find Satan and comes across someone in costume decorating his house for Halloween (with real dead bodies). Dougie asks if he is Satan. Satan nods his head. Dougie asks if he could be his helper. Satan nods his head. Dougie asks Satan if he will kill Alex. Satan nods his head. Thus begin the exploits of Satan and his little helper.
To be quite honest with you, I may have liked this movie. I know I laughed more than a few times. It is a healthy mix of good comedy and bad horror. In fact, the horror and story element of this movie were so bad at times in comparison to how solid the funny was, I started to think it may have been bad on purpose. Satan never speaks. He goes from Satan costume, to Jesus costume (which is responsible for gifting us the best line in the film, “Jesus is Satan!”) to {SPOILER ALERT} a police officer. But the actor that played him, Joshua Annex (who apparently has 3 credits to his name) is quite hilarious with his “thumb up” approval and finger wagging to indicate “no,” or “I wouldn’t do that.” The people that speak in this thing can’t act worth a damn, but Alexander Brickel, who played Dougie, actually had some great moments of line delivery that made me laugh several times. This was helpful as most of the movie revolved around him and Satan. The flaws are many, such as this family’s inability to realize that their house is not the safest place in the neighborhood, and the lack of impact the death of Dad seemed to have on everyone (except maybe Dougie). The bad decisions that Dougie made I can believe, for as I stated earlier, has some mental defect, even if it is as simple as not being able to tell what is real and what is not. I reiterate, however, that I suspect that the holes and highly improbable scenarios that occurred were done on purpose, and that this film was more an homage to poor horror films, rather than a serious attempt at one. You could argue the other side of this, however, as there was really not that much gore in it at all. I will say, whichever it is, it ran a little long and became a little hard to pay attention to toward the end.
I have definitely seen much worse than this, and it really is not as bad as it appears if you just run it in the background. It is definitely good for some laughs, and not just “so good it is bad” laughs. Check it out.
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