Release Date: October 21, 2016 "When Madea spends Halloween keeping an eye on a group of misbehaving teens, she finds herself fending off killers, paranormal poltergeists, ghosts, ghouls and zombies." That's the official plot synopsis for what is bound to be, almost without question, one of the worst films to come along since Tyler Perry last put something out into the world. The Madea films are cinematic sacrilege, of course; why people continue to go out and see these unfunny ventures, all of which involve a grown man dressing up as an insufferable elderly woman, is a genuine mystery. Just when you thought Madea couldn't find herself in an even more irksome scenario than, oh, prison, here she is in a Halloween movie. Certainly, this film has the potential to make Scary Movie 5 look like Citizen Kane. If this film garners more than 5% on Rotten Tomatoes, that's it... as a society, we have failed and the end of cinema is upon us.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
