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3/10
Ugh
BandSAboutMovies9 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
In the time before before the November mid-term Eeections, three young girls are stalked by a deranged killer dressed as the man who was once our President. Yes, if your level of what makes a movie funny is reshooting the iconic shots from Halloween but putting a Donald mask on Michael, well good news. Your movie is here.

That same killer once wore a Reagan mask and killed his mother before going to the insane asylum. Now he's out and ready to kill everyone not straight, white and male.

The humor in this is pretty much as you'd expect it. I wish that political comedy had gained a new edge over the past few years, but it seems like it's been as dumbed down as the country is in general, staying on one side of the debate instead of understanding that there can be things to make fun of in each party.

That said, I have no idea how they got so close to stealing the Shape's theme song without getting sued. Maybe the producers wanted that to bring this movie more notoriety than it got.
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1/10
The pun is pretty funny and that's about it
Scarefish24 December 2018
The main problem with this movie is that it's essentially all reference-based comedy in which you're meant to go "Oh, I remember that," as the film is mostly parodying shots from horror classics. The problem is it's too low effort to be effective parody rather than feeling like a bad knockoff, and the titular pun only goes so far on its own as a joke. The premise seems very funny, but unfortunately the joke doesn't last longer than a few minutes. It doesn't really matter what your political views are going into this film as it's fully aware of how stupid it is and doesn't hesitate to try to offend both sides. Another problem is that the film borrows way too heavily from Halloween to the point where it's simply a Halloween parody with a few references to other horror films here and there, including the more recent It Follows, I believe. If you turn your brain off entirely for this one, it can be entertaining, but mostly it's a bit too one-dimensional to be a substantial comedy, and isn't creative enough to live up to its perfect pun of a title and timely subject matter.
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Seriously?
skyfall-3340225 October 2019
What do you expect from a movie called President Evil? Do you expect it be the next Godfather? Shawshank? Fight Club?! Of course not! You should expect a stupid movie! A stupid movie with bad acting, bad dialogue and story. Yet people act like it's supposedly to be a masterpiece. I mean.... it is NOWHERE near a masterpiece. It's an awful movie. But not 1* STAR worthy.
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1/10
Pure garbage
KatanaChimichanga18 February 2019
Please don't waste your time, this is awful. The acting sucks, the story sucks. It looks like they put about a grand into the movie.
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1/10
So unfortunate
bellamammamia5 October 2019
It's unfortunate star ratings don't have a minus sign option as this movie (calling it a movie is to generous) is about the worse piece of crap I've even seen. There are "B Movies" than there's this, File it under "RD" for Rubbish Dump.
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1/10
Pathetic, and obviously made to hate on Trump
alexhenderson-1171115 November 2018
Nothing more to say, other than this is just ridiculous, and stupid.
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8/10
A great laugh
BigfootsFriend16 January 2020
The movie is pretty stupid but all the bad acting makes it really fun to watch. I had a hard time figuring out if this movie is mocking Trump or mocking liberals and democrats. It's a must watch whether you like Donald Trump or not.
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8/10
Simultaneously awesome and awful
kathrynafletcher10 September 2019
Definitely not politically motivated...

I'm sad to see such negative reviews, this movie was pretty funny, it's comically low budget and it really was pretty enjoyable, as long as you're not expecting a cinematic masterpiece and aren't set on being too uptight about things.
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6/10
Not as bad as I Thought it would be
jdirk0020 November 2018
Straight up copy of Halloween (even the theme sounds the same) but instead of a Captain Kirk Mask he wears a Donald Trump one. Production value was better than expected. Actors were ... ok. Average at best
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shot with a cell phone
bigweenerlolweener4 October 2019
The movie was out shined by sharknado 6 in terms of production quality by a ratio to that of an ant to the sun. just another supposedly "edgy" film that shows the political narrative of hollywood to add to the trash heap.
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10/10
Funny and Clever
anxfisa27 April 2020
My best friend and I love Horror spoofs, this one did not disappoint. Hilarious and political satire. We need more like this!
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7/10
So Bad I Loved It
reelkev22 June 2019
The other reviewer I guess didn't see the charm - but I laughed a lot! I know ALL of the dialog was over dubbed so I guess the budget was so low, they couldn't record the sounds on set. But this take Halloween, Psycho, Carrie and mix them up with the presidential campaign and you have yourself a fun midnight movie.
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7/10
I think these one star reviews have their own motivation
caverats-7189017 January 2021
Look, if you've ever had any love for the fine folks at Troma, this would be high art at Troma, way better acting and production values. The jokes are slightly smarter too. It's fun for what it is, a low budget horror parody.
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Pun is King
connorlarkin-8883528 October 2019
The pun is the king. The movie isn't worth watching, but that's not what I'm reviewing. I'm reviewing the pun. It is king
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