Pha-Q woke's Reviews
I decided to give this 1983 slasher a watch based on it's somewhat cult status, I should of never bothered. The acting is horrendous, the kills are pretty tame and it's really just a poor 80's generic slasher. The only thing that's sets it apart is the extremely woke for the time aspects. There's no way to really review it without spoilers so be warned...The entire premise is rather generic a father and 2 children are involved in an accident at a summer camp and only 1 child survives. The killer is very obvious right from the start so not sure why they even bothered to hide the identity. The survivor is the young boy who is adopted and spends his childhood pretending to be a girl instead. There is a flashback scene revealing the dead father to be gay in bed with another man in front of his 2 kids. This results in multiple scenes of the boy pretending to be a girl fooling another boy into liking him and making out with him. There is also a disturbing homoerotic feel to the entire movie. Many scenes of the male campers shirtless, in very short shorts or half midriff shirts. They are constantly jumping all over each other and just generally acting rather oddly. There is a scene where a bunch of the male campers strip naked and go skinny dipping with just a group of males together. In contrast there are almost no scenes of any of the female campers in anything revealing at all. Even if you like old school slashers I would recommend staying far away from this.
Created: 09-30-2026
Another one of those escaped from a religious cult movies. The acting is not very good and the story is one big cliché. It's very, very slow and the 45 minutes I watched virtually nothing happened and it's anything but horror. As for woke there's the usual mixed race couple with the DEI Asian character. His only purpose to be there seems to be so they can reinforce the racist view of the Mormon's. The main female character's entire storyline is she was part of this group then was kicked out because she had a lesbian relationship with the bishops daughter.
Created: 09-30-2026
Not really a comedy as it claims to be. There's some mildly amusing moments but just not really funny. The writing and acting are ok but that's about it. Out of nowhere at the half way point it seems to drop any attempts at humor and go dark thriller almost horror. It's a very jarring
transition. The biggest issue is the kid these two are transporting is typical of those p.o.s. social media prankster douche bags. He's such
an asshole vile character that you really just want to see him get destroyed and everything he does is annoying and irritating, not funny. The weak attempt to redeem his character at the end doesn't work, you want to see him get what he deserves, not some lame redemption arc.
It's not really woke other than some DEI and maybe a little lite feminism.
A more likable character as the kid would of made this a better watch, as it is unless you think those aforementioned social media losers are actually funny avoid it.
Created: 09-28-2026
Multiple mixed race couples. Black token friend in the group of 4. Another one of the friends is a Philippine mentally ill non-binary actor and it's so obvious. Main white female lead joins a dating app and gets nothing but loser, obnoxious white males she turns down than excepts a date and bangs the first black male that contacts her. She than has a security system installer show up for an estimate and he's middle eastern so of course she falling all over herself attracted to him. So basically white men bad minorities good. Just getting to the half hour point was a struggle. It's not funny at all just dumb and annoying.
Created: 09-27-2026
The acting is up and down and the writing is terrible and makes no sense. Annoying characters that act like idiots and unrealistically. They keep saying that a nuke was detonated off the CA coast. There is a mushroom cloud that seems to support this but no concussion blast or shockwave. They also keep referring to a bioweapon. It instantly knocks out the power grid like an EMP but yet cell phones work and the electric car is fine. Also, a prepper with an electric car? Sure. I made it 30 minutes and it was just to poorly done to continue. It was moving very slowly and kept introducing more seemingly main character I kept thinking it felt like the start of a series rather than a movie. Turns out it is in fact a pilot for a series falsely marketed as a movie. The only woke I saw in the 30 minutes I watched was the mandatory mixed race couple.
Created: 09-27-2026
Marketed as a zombie horror, it is NOT horror and barely zombies. It's a slow moving psychological drama. I think there was 1 single scene
where a so called zombie was an actual threat, otherwise they just stand there and do nothing. The writing is terrible and nothing makes any sense. There's an EMP weapon that supposedly killed everyone on the island and turns only random ones into 'zombies'. How does an EMP do that? Don't worry about it. Why does one random motorcycle still work like nothing happened? Don't ask. Even though it's an EMP and instantly killed people why are they all messed up and look like zombies in various stages of decay and mutilation? Just watch the movie and don't think too much. There are no scares and nothing resembling horror. It's boring drama with little story and nothing happens. As for woke, there are far too many female characters for the situation and story being told and they are more focused on then the males. They just had to through in a creepy emotionally damaged male character in the middle to be a random out of nowhere villain. Best to pass this one up.
Created: 09-23-2026
This is another one that would of worked better as an animated movie than an ongoing show. The entire premise is ridiculous and makes no sense even within the context of Marvel comics universe. A monkey that just suddenly magically turns into a ninja, firearms marksman top tier
hitman just from watching a hitman train for a short period of time. No training himself and no supernatural powers, it just happens. The hitman than dies and his ghost is for some reason attached to the monkey and is forced to follow him around to get revenge. Why can the two of them understand each other? No idea. Why does nobody seem to notice or think a monkey in a suit with glasses jumping around killing people is odd? No idea. The voice acting is good and the animation is fine, that's not an issue. The majority of the humor comes from the dead hitman who spends the entire movie fast talking one liners nonstop, the monkey just grunts and that's it. It's amusing at first but the gimmick becomes stale pretty quickly. There's an entire storyline where the old pathetic male detective and his DEI smart female partner try to tell the police force that there's a monkey killing everyone and nobody believes them.
This is about 4 episodes in when dozens if not hundreds of people would of seen him and he would be all over security cameras and social media posts by then. Then the monkey is wildly inconsistent. One minute he's bumbling around and easily captured and tortured, then suddenly turns invincible badass. It's bad writing and makes no sense and it gets worse and dumber as it goes. Then this is Disney's Marvel
so there's the usual heavy dose of virtue signaling and social justice commentary. There's also a heavy dose of the feminism, the usual girlbosses, females smarter and better than males. . Pretty sure I saw a man wearing a bra in the prison scene. I made it to 5 episodes when it got really dumb and some flamboyant seemingly gay characters started showing up.
Created: 09-23-2026
Very feminist movie where all males are stupid, pathetic or assholes while females are smart and good. DEI casting choices. The acting is passable but the dialogue is awful, like it was written by A.I. using gen z social media accounts as a template. Characters are annoying and written unrealistically. The humor is terrible and unfunny with the same fake generic social media type writing. I made it only 30 minutes and not one funny moment to had. Avoid at all costs unless your a woke Gen Z social media addicted female.
Created: 09-19-2026
Definitely more comedy than horror though there is some blood and gore a the FX are decent. Unfortunately the comedy just isn't very funny and the characters aren't very likable. Keith David is a recognizable and decent actor so not sure if his casting should be considered DEI, I mean it's only 1 black character in the cast. The lead female has hints of the typical feminist tendencies but not too bad. It started to lose
my attention half way through and I was only half paying attention so I could of missed something. It doesn't really work as a horror or comedy
so not really recommended.
Created: 09-18-2026
Well this went from decent to trash in an instant. The first hour is rather interesting with a look at instant unexpected fame on a normal
person as well as a sort of meaning of dreams extension. It can be a little hard to watch sometimes because the main character is such a
neurotic, awkward, pathetic person. The humor is more subtle but the story holds your attention and isn't boring. Then at the one hour mark it's like an entirely different writer/director took over and it decided it wanted to make a statement on social media, cancel culture and mob mentality. The problem is every character becomes incredibly annoying and a disgusting person. Everything wrong with the idiocy and over emotional coddling of the Gen Z crowd in on full display. It completely ignores the plethora of legal action and lawsuits he would of been able to bring to bear on these ridiculous people's illegal actions taken against him. His wife suddenly out of nowhere turns on him, takes every opportunity to rail against him and blame him for everything and just generally becomes a horrible person. The ending and last final 10 minutes really goes off the rails and ruins any redeeming value
this might of had left. There is a fair amount of DEI and some general feminist nonsense. I don't know what the hell this was trying to be and I
don't think the makers of this do either.
Created: 09-16-2026