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Jan 22, 2021 · January 22, 2021. 4 min read. In theory, the kitschy supervillain comedy "PG: Psycho Goreman" seems like a guaranteed hit: a gory and knowingly goofy riff on fish-out-of-water action-adventures like "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" combined with rubber-suit monsters from Japanese tokusatsu type shows and movies like "Ultraman," "Masked Rider," and ...
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By Rafael Motamayor
Updated: Nov 3, 2022 8:11 pm
Posted: Jan 27, 2021 9:24 pm
At a time when '80s nostalgia is dominating pop culture and kids on bikes playing D&D get on freaky adventures on a daily basis, it feels refreshing to see a filmmaker take those same '80s movie tropes and plots and apply them to '90s Saturday morning cartoons and Japanese tokusatsu shows like Ultraman and Kamen Rider. The result is PG: Psycho Goreman, an ass-kicking, bone-crushing, face-melting love letter to practical creature effects that feels right at home with a triple feature alongside Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and an episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, made for those of us who grew up on those franchises and then developed a taste for bloody monster movies and dark humor.
Canadian filmmaker Steven Kostanski follows his 2017 John Carpenter-inspired, Lovecraftian extravaganza The Void with PG: Psycho Goreman, a timeless tale of two kids who befriend an intergalactic warlord bent on destroying everything in his path. Like any self-respecting '80s/'90s family movie, it follows two young siblings: Luke (Owen Myre) and Mimi (Nita-Josee Hanna) do everything together, not just to get away from their constantly fighting parents, but because Mimi rules over her brother with an iron fist, including inventing an overly complicated dodgeball-like game that seems to be mostly about Mimi hitting Luke with a basketball. Combining two very different but surprisingly compatible genres, the opening scenes begin at the intersection of the classic monster film wherein dumb humans find and activate an ancient evil artifact, and timeless, Amblin-inspired stories of children discovering a magical or alien creature that becomes their best friend as they go on a wonderful adventure.
Except this is not awestruck Elliott learning about friendship and life from E.T., but Mimi, the egomaniac bully, accidentally finding the mystical gem that gives her complete control over a bloodthirsty intergalactic conqueror known as The Archduke of Nightmares (Matthew Ninaber). Rather than having her act like regular kids and run away, or even try to turn the alien into a gentle monster, Kostanski makes both the kid and her alien friend absolute monsters with complete disregard for decency or mercy and gives them both an arc of learning to — maybe — care about others.
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PG: Psycho Goreman is campy, ridiculous, and low-budget, and it absolutely owns it. With fantastically old-school practical creature effects, grindhouse sensitivities, a surprisingly emotional core, and a rap song recapping the plot that plays over the closing credits, this gory satire of ‘80s and ‘90s kids films pulls at the heartstrings before ri...
PG: Psycho Goreman is 1973 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 782 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Dora and the Lost City of Gold but less popular than The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear.
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Jan 21, 2021 · Psycho Goreman is a masterclass in homegrown enthusiasm and a callback to better cinematic eras where models, latex, and dreamlike puppetry offered the only effects options. A smorgasbord of carnage cravings and tremendously talented costume fittings kissed with passionate conveyance. Psycho Goreman is a Saturday morning non-cartoon with ...
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The site's consensus reads, "Over the top and enthusiastically strange, PG: Psycho Goreman delivers all the cheesy midnight-movie goodness promised by its title." [13] Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail praised the film, writing that "if you happen to be operating on Kostanski's very particular and peculiar wavelength, the movie is an absolute ...
Jan 22, 2021 · The movie’s ability to flirt with the familiar and completely turn it on its head is what keeps Psycho Goreman so perversely fresh and fun throughout. It never once betrays its dark heart and continually trots out practical creature effects that tumble out of a GWAR nightmare that keep it engaging, unique, and deliciously deviant all the way to the closing credits.
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Jan 22, 2021 · But Psycho Goreman is his magnum opus, a glorious love letter to gory monster movies of the ‘80s. Kostanski constructs a mythos to make Psycho Goreman more than just a violent figure, but a ...
