Welcome to Willits

 


Name: Welcome to Willits

Directed By: Trevor Ryan

Subgenre: Sci-Fi, Creature Feature

Series: Spooktober 2019 entry #18; review #49

Review: As you can probably guess by the giant alien head gracing the movie poster, Welcome to Willits is ostensibly a sci-fi horror mashup. That's not exactly wrong, but the plot fairly rapidly becomes more ambiguous than what it seems on the cover. And that's for the best. Welcome to Willits weaves together the stories of a meth-addicted farmer and the young campers that find themselves accidentally stranded on his pot farm. Also, Dolph Lundgren plays a cop in an in-movie television program, so that’s fun. Welcome to Willits is squarely a B-movie, and it doesn't try to be anything different: and it executes what it sets out to do in a fun way with some surprisingly effective practical effects. Don't get me wrong, you won't accidentally think you started watching a snuff film, but the gore is still well done. For what it's worth, I don't think there's a single instance of CGI effects in the film. Again, set your expectation-dial toward campy B-movie, and you'll have a good time. It also gets bonus points for having a character named Possum who has a pet possum that wears a little jacket in one scene.




Overall Score: 3 out of 5 meth-addled Chads fightin' the good fight. Did Welcome to Willits scare you? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

IMDB: Here

How to Watch: Welcome to Willits is available on these platforms.


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