Hubie Halloween: Your Nightmarish Halloween Parcel Has Arrived
Contrary to popular belief, and despite almost no one raving about its spookiness, Hubie Halloween will scare the crap out of you. Am I a scaredy-cat like the way they describe Hubie Dubois in the film? Well, yes and no. When speaking about hardcore horror movies, I am inclined to be an Invisible Man than a scaredy-cat. You won’t see me hanging around those films. But rest assured, I am there. But in regards to horror comedies like Vampires vs. The Bronx and Hubie Halloween, I am usually a Hulk.
Seeing that it is now October and hoping to get more people into the Halloween mood, Netflix unleashed Hubie Halloween, a horror comedy with Adam Sandler as the leading face, Steven Brill calling the shots as the director, and Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions as the production company. Sandler himself plays Hubie Dubois, a resident-not-evil of Salem, Massachusetts, whose naive thinking, mumbling speech and timid persona perpetually/ constantly land him into trouble with his not-so-friendly neighbors.
Among many residents of Salem who are dedicated enough to wait with rotten eggs in their hands, sniffing them for hours just to throw them at Hubie who cycles by, a couple of them stands out — Hubie’s fellow colleague, Mike Mundi (Karan Brar), silver fox snob Mr Landolfa (Ray Liotta), and Hubie’s ex-classmate, Lester…
