"Gore in the Store"
There's splatter, prosthetics and mayhem aplenty in BLACK FRIDAY, getting a digital release from Signature.
The staff of kids' superstore We Love Toys are getting ready for the annual Black Friday sale, not knowing that the night before, a blob of peculiar ooze has appeared and infected the night security man.
The doors open, the shoppers stampede in, and pretty soon everyone's turning into Robert Kurtzman-created monsters. Soon the few normal humans left find they have to resort to measures both extreme and extremely silly in an attempt to destroy the alien menace.
BLACK FRIDAY isn't a classic. There's nothing here that hasn't been done or seen before and for a film that purports to be a horror comedy the laugh factor could have done with being upped considerably, although recalled toy Dour Dennis the Depressed Teddy Bear is very funny - more of this sort of thing would have been most welcome. It's also lacking the frenetic sense of mounting jeopardy that better examples of this kind of subgenre (eg 2015's BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS / BLOODSUCKING BOSSES) achieve.
That said BLACK FRIDAY is a reasonable timewaster with a cast of genre favourites including, Devon Sawa (FINAL DESTINATION), Michael Jai White (BLACK DYNAMITE), Ivana Baquero (PAN'S LABYRINTH) and Bruce Campbell (so much stuff but I'll just put EVIL DEAD) plus Seth Green as the voice of Dour Dennis. It's the kind of movie that used to go down a storm at horror film festivals in the late 1980s, usually in the 1am slot when it was just the thing you needed so you didn't have to keep propping your eyelids open with cocktail sticks. Recommended for a bit of undemanding Friday night fun.
BLACK FRIDAY is out on digital from Signature on Friday 11 February 2022. Here's the trailer:
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