Set in 1993 and complete with a VHS tape aesthetic and graphics complete with bloody practical effects, Mr. Crocket weaves millennial nostalgia into quite forgivable supernatural fable. Revitalizes over-familiar scares. Turn of events in the film encourages recalling the last name Espy. The director of the short film of the same name expands his own short film from the network’s Halloween anthology series Bite Size Halloween.
Without a sigh of relief we are thrown into the cold open of the film where Mr. Crocket (Elvis Nolasco for that’s who he plays on screen) himself, a puppeteer and presenter of a children’s television program, travels with his preschool kiddos and they all sing cheesy songs depicting these sharing and caring management skills among the young mind. A young boy then gets to watch Crocket’s performance on his VHS and after that, he is supposed to go to the dinner table where his serve father conglomerates him viciously and his tired by this time mother attempts to defend him in vain. This scenario however is quite familiar to a latchkey kid left in the nineties to self entertain with the TV while the parents were at work and when they were not at work they were probably bickering with each other.
In the midst of the screaming, when the boy’s mother leaves to take a break in the bedroom, Mr. Crocket enters our world, taking assistance from a twisted chair and killing the father before abducting the boy. A few months later, it’s a different Mr. Crocket: Summer (Jerrika Hinton) is forced to bring up her son Major (Ayden Gavin) single-handedly after her husband passes away unexpectedly. During the wake, Major is approached by Rhonda (Kristolyn Lloyd), a homeless woman clearly under the influence of drugs and mental health issues, of whom major has already seen in an earlier scene.
Rhonda attempts to tell Summer and Major about Mr. Crocket and his danger to them, but considering how out of touch and skewed she appears, such efforts are also futile. It is not long afterwards that an agitated Summer manages to find the VHS tape of Mr. Crocket and gives it to Major to keep him entertained. After the heated quarrel between summer and her son rises to unmanageable proportions, Mr. Crocket, who had been contained in the harmless two-dimensional other world, appears in ‘real’ life and physically rescues Master Major. Summer’s mind suddenly comprehends why Rhonda had been trying to warn her all along.
As it probably should be evident by now, there is quite a lot of story happening in Mr. Crocket, which probably would benefit from either eliminating a plot thread or two. While in the process of thinking how to rescue her son from a supernatural monster, Summer meets the overtly helpful Eddie (Alex Akpobome), the relation of which to Crocket is perhaps quite apparent from the beginning. Espy has a blast with the clichés of ‘90s horror movies, like a jump scare in the closing minutes of a microfiche in a library that has built up for the last fifteen minutes, predictable as it is; that’s ancient history but that’s precisely the kind of thing you want in a tribute to a horror film made in the nineties. While Mr. Crocket willingly absorbs such tropes, worse, it also borrows the form of the plow, and without wishing to anticipate, viewers will have the consequences long before the characters do.
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It would be a chance missed if I don’t follow Summer and Rhonda closely, and while it is true that Mr. Espy doesn’t pay that much attention to the ‘90s war on drugs and the crack epidemic that affected the communities of color that much, these topics are evidently in the background. Also, Espy is not only beckoning specific time period, but exposed is a very precise – and rather commonplace for the working class – dysfunctional family structure that is drenched by class issues. The extent of how much he can pull it off probably has to do with how much of yourself you are willing to invest into it, but for some parts of the film, perhaps the most alarming of which is the last third, those ideas seem to get lost in translation and the film becomes a mess and pulls itself apart in between overt, surreal and bloody puppetry and has something to say about the social structure.
The other depiction of a black ghost for revenge also appeared in the film “Candyman” when released in 1992 which is powerful due to the racial plots and settings, whilst in the case of Mr. Crocket as well tensions between moral and genre concern are present. What happens in the end is pointless and messy climax since who its antagonist is supposed to be was still shoved toward the audiences without giving the strongest pulls in terms of characters and performances in the entire movie.
Available on Hulu as a horror movie, Mr. Crocket is quite enjoyable, incorporating gooey practical effects, and pulling off nearly all the asides which every slasher Bb would have incorporated back in the nineties. As already stated, there could have been more focus on trying to trash Espy’s film in the theatrical version, or if it did not have such a humane length of 88 minutes, but, for all intents and purposes, Mr. Crocket mostly delivers on what it is supposed to do, although you might feel that it could have reached for greater heights. Mr. Crocket is coming to Hulu on October 11th, 2024
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