schlocky

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Sandberg, Dauberman and Butler work in a familiar kind of schlocky groove, delivering well-worn horror stereotypes we’ve already seen too many times, before upending the whole thing with wild surprises.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025

In a single-star review, the Guardian's Benjamin Lee called the film "as dumb and schlocky as the worst of the genre, with lousy network TV effects, uninvolving action and unfunny and inelegant dialogue".

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024

Critics called his storylines ludicrous and his special effects schlocky, and highlighted the absurdity of lines like, “You can’t drop an atom bomb on Chicago!”

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2023

It's like the artist who makes a beautiful picture, but is not content then to churn out schlocky copies of that for tourists for the next forty years.

From Salon • May 15, 2022

“I want to be able to just make people laugh through dance without it being too, like, honk, honk,” she told me, mimicking a schlocky comedian with an airhorn.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022