Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube
    HORROR SCREAMS VIDEO VAULT – SUPPORTING INDEPENDENT HORROR
    • Home
    • Film Reviews
      • Films Beginning With Numbers or Symbols
      • A – C
      • D – F
      • G – I
      • J – L
      • M – O
      • P – R
      • S – U
      • V – X
      • Y – Z
    • Book Reviews
    • Franchise Corner
    • Competitions
    • Horror Screams Podcast
    • Contact Us
    Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube
    HORROR SCREAMS VIDEO VAULT – SUPPORTING INDEPENDENT HORROR

    Film Review: DOUBLE DATE (2017)

    Peter 'Witchfinder' HopkinsBy Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins15th September 201919 Comments2 Mins Read

    DOUBLE DATE **** UK 2017 Dir: Benjamin Barfoot. 90 mins

    Writer Danny Morgan, wittily puncturing laddish bravado, also amiably plays the role of ginger virgin Jim in this often-funny British horror comedy. Approaching 30 and freshly dumped by text message, he has a would-be ladies’ man best friend Alex (Michael Socha) determined to get him laid before the birthday milestone, even if it involves hooking him up with the recently bereaved. Jim thinks his luck is finally in when he somehow attracts a pair of alluring sisters (sensual Kelly Wenham and younger, seductress-in-training Georgia Groome) …though the audience has already seen them stab some poor sap at the very start. A credible, perceptive study of male insecurity is at the heart of DOUBLE DATE, with Morgan’s script cleverly juxtaposing Alex’s misguided mission to induct Jim into shagging with Wenham’s “training” of her sister. The incidental gags are terrific, from the faux “alt” band The Krabs (“Have you ever heard an owl cry?”) to the throwaway detail of Yazoo’s “Only You” as the song used for the sisters’ ritual sacrifices. In addition to Morgan’s empathetic comic performance, Socha and Wenham are superb, with the latter impressively getting the upper hand during a bravura extended fight sequence with Socha. The movie wanders into sitcom territory for scenes involving Jim’s broadly played Christian family and an INBETWEENERS-esque sequence with Dexter Fletcher as Socha’s wasted, embittered Dad, while nodding to THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE’s dinner table centrepiece for one key sequence. Overall, Barfoot’s mission to make a post SHAUN OF THE DEAD horror comedy that isn’t “one of the shit ones” (his words) has resulted in one of the good ones.

    Review by Steven West

    FacebookLikeShareTweetPin
    Benjamin Barfoot Danny Morgan Double Date Frightfest Frightfest 2017 Horror Comedy Sparky Pictures

    Related Posts

    ‘Mother Father Sister Brother Frank’ the hilariously horrid comedy horror is served up on Digital

    27th January 202502 Mins Read
    Read More

    HAYRIDE TO HELL Starring Bill Moseley and Kane Hodder – out now On Digital and On Demand

    6th December 202403 Mins Read
    Read More

    Acclaimed horror-thriller STRANGE DARLING scores European Premiere at FrightFest London on 24th August 2024 | In UK cinemas 20th September 2024

    23rd August 202404 Mins Read
    Read More

    Queer horror anthology HAUNTOLOGY starring Samantha Robinson, Nancy Loomis and Naomi Grossman at FrightFest

    13th August 202401 Min Read
    Read More

    19 Comments

    1. Lynn Evans on 17th October 2019 6:47 AM

      2017

      Reply
    2. Helen Sherpa on 17th September 2019 7:37 PM

      2017

      Reply
    3. Margaret Gallagher on 17th September 2019 1:01 PM

      2017

      Reply
    4. kw on 16th September 2019 9:12 PM

      2017

      Reply
    5. Brian Stabler on 16th September 2019 1:50 PM

      2017

      Reply
    6. shane weir on 16th September 2019 1:03 PM

      2017

      Reply
    7. Mickie Bull on 16th September 2019 10:34 AM

      2017!

      Reply
    8. Suzanne Jackson on 16th September 2019 10:01 AM

      2017

      Reply
    9. Kelly Jones on 16th September 2019 6:55 AM

      2017 🙂

      Reply
    ← Older Comments

    Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

    Recent Posts
    • Indie Underground Filmmakers unite for Amityverse: End Game – The Curse Ends Here?
    • First Images From NEW The Return of the Living Dead Movie, Trash’s Revenge
    • Voodoo Horror Thrives In “Bitter Souls” – Official Trailer
    • “SHOOT FROM THE HIP: RISE OF THE PHANTOM” starring Jimmy Drain, Natasha Coppola-Shalom, Mohawk Bob Bagnall,Dawna Lee Heising, & more has its red carpet premiere
    • This Christmas Horror will give you a SHIVER
    Archives
    Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.