Wow! Such a good movie.

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The VHS culture of the 90's was still booming. As a child I would automatically travel to the horror section in my local video store,and I would be intrigued by various movies. But The Willies always seemed to interest me. After multiple viewings of this film I have grown quite fond of this film. The film begins with three boys in a tent trying to gross each out by telling urban legends, you know stories about a woman microwaving her dog and a woman eating a rat at a fried chicken restaurant. But then we get to the stories of the movie. The story is about a weirdo who has a fetish for collecting flies and the other story is about a kid who discovers a creep in his High School bathroom.Not really going into a lot about the stories cause you needs to watch. The film has it's moments of pure grossness and is filled with cameos by Clu Gulager and James Karen both from Return of the Living Dead (the film is directed by a star of that film as well), it also has a wink to The Goonies (in which Sean Astin stars). But if you are a fan of "Are you afraid of the Dark" and other type of Anthrology type stuff like that you'll most likely love The Willies. It is filled with great imagination and it has the right amount of cheese of a B-movie. Also after years of owning the film on VHS I never knew that it came with an alternate VHS slip cover so that is another plus to this amazing film.

Her's a wonderfully warped classic that should not be passed over by adult horror fans just because it's aimed at misfit 12-year-olds. What can I say? I greatly enjoy this horror movie with its gross jokes and cinematic recreations of Kentucky Fried Rat and "the poodle in the microwave" urban legends. The meat of the movie is two stories with lots of potty humor. The first story is about a monster in the boys bathroom at school. This one brings back all the childish memories of creepy school bathrooms. The second story continues with the potty humor, but it is decidedly more twisted. It's about a lonely fat kid named Gordy, who steals experimental manure to attract flies for his demented hobby. What makes the stories fun is the attention to details. For instance, the reporter interviewing Farmer Spivy about his "miracle manure" works for the KORN network. Ha, ha, ha! Get it? Gordy likes to rip the wings off of flies while listening to classical music and put the little fellas in his various dioramas of human society. The strangest diorama is a church, complete with a crucified Jesus fly. My hat is off to the writer/director of this creepy gem.

The Willies is the poor man's Creepshow. Three kids sitting around the midnight campfire need to entertain themselves. Before the opening credits even roll (I mean, when the title does finally appear on screen), we get about ten minutes of "what's grosser than gross" stories and bad jokes. A lady microwaving her dog, an old man scared to death by the walking dead at a cheap recreation of Disney's Haunted Mansion, and a fat fast foodie woman who bites into a latex rat. Big deal. It's a pretty lame waste of time while you're waiting around for the writers to finally get to the point.And as it is introduced, these stories are guaranteed to give you "The Willies." Though in reality, unless you scare very easily (including the P-13 audience that this movie caters to), then you're probably not going to get anything more than a pain in the brain. Although, the first one will probably entertain the kiddies enough if you've ever had a bully or a teacher that didn't like you. That's the foundation for the first story, a janitor who turns into a big ugly monster. And when this dorky little kid (and believe me, this kid is king nerd), can't convince anyone that he saw a monster in the bathroom, people go investigating it for themselves. And the consequences aren't pretty. Well, at least not unless you're like the dorky little kid and enjoy seeing your tormentors get eaten by the beast. Fine.But the second story was just too weird to enjoy. "Donkeylips" from Salute Your Shorts fame (Michael Bower) plays an obnoxious super-weird kid who goes poking around some senile man's yard. The guy has a genetically engineered fertilizer that is guaranteed to improve the growth of anything you use it for. Bower plays a creepy bug obsessed kid with a penchant for making friends with flies, which he has created a super race of thanks to the fertilizer that he kept them in. To top off a weird story is a stupid ending. I'm not even sure kids could enjoy that one, except to see giant human-sized flies running about. This movie is a real turkey, even if Sean Astin or Jeremy Miller are in it (notice how they conveniently reference to Growing Pains in the 'fly' story), and possibly not good enough to be the best worst movie. If it's PG-13 horror you're looking for, I'd recommend passing it up. If these are the stories you enjoy, get a good fright (and a good laugh) with Stephen King's Creepshow series.

This movie starts out with kids telling each other urban legends such as the poodle in the microwave and getting something extra at a chicken place. Unfortunately, it then turns to your basic anthology movie. The first being about a janitor with a bit of a secret. This one is okay at best. Then it gets worse as the next story about this kid obsessed with dead flies is on and it goes on and on and on. It is way to long and not all that interesting to begin with. After that you get the typical shock scene and it ends. You need more than this in an anthology movie. You need at least three stories and one shouldn't be so long it becomes dreadfully uninteresting especially considering you can see how it is going to end a mile away.