Rish Outfield's reviews
Wait a minute, Idle Hands wasn't Horror! It was a stupid, sick comedy! What, are we supposed to review Love at First Bite or Young Frankenstein? Sure, there were Horror elements, with a real, genuine, honest-to-god SCARE at the very beginning, plus tons of gore, evil music, and death . . . but to call it a Horror Movie...
What's next, we review Michael Jackson's Thriller video?
That'd be funny.

The tyranist's thoughts
There is a tradition of horror/comedy that exists mostly because it is so hard to do. A lot of writers and directors see writing something that legitimately makes you scream and laugh alternately for an hour and a half as the ultimate challenge in horror film making. It is. Precisely for this reason there are a lot of horror films that are a little funny and a lot of comedies that are a little scary, maybe. Idle Hands is clearly a comedy when it is all said and done, but there are some legitimately scary moments in the movie along with a lot of gore. Anyone who hates the sight of spattering blood and loose body parts should stay away. But for the average horror fan, this movie is really funny. Rish and I gave it skulls as if it were a scary horror film since I think they were at least trying to make sure the horror elements didn't disappear completely.
Seth Green and Elden Henson are hilarious as the undead sidekicks. Jessica Alba is so tempting you can't help but empathize with Anton (Devon Sawa). The opening sequence manages to be wildly funny and very scary at the same time. The Vivica Fox subplot is great, but sorely under-developed. Some of the lines had me rolling. It is well worth the money spent and probably should have done better than it did. This is the kind of movie that needs to be made a little more often. It is light-hearted but still has all of the horror you could want.