Movie · 2025 · Horror, Comedy · 1h 42m · NR · English
Curator score: 0.3/10 (17.9K ratings)
A scream is a wish your heart makes.
Overview
A late-night boat ride turns into a desperate fight for survival in New York City when a mischievous mouse becomes a monstrous reality.
Ratings
Curator score: 0.3/10
IMDb: 4.1/10
Letterboxd: 1.96/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 53%
Metacritic: 44
TMDB: 5.1/10
Director
Steven LaMorte
Production
Sleight of Hand Productions, Fuzz on the Lens Productions, Deskpop Entertainment, Kali Pictures, Reckless Content
Cast
David Howard Thornton, Allison Pittel, Amy Schumacher, Jesse Posey, Jarlath Conroy, Julia Schroeder, Brian Scolaro, Kailey Hyman, Rumi C. Jean-Louis, Poonam Basu, Stephanie Bates, Allie Seibold, Savannah Whitten, Jarod Lindsey, Jesse Kove, Michael Defilippis, Jared Johnston, Tyler Posey, Brian Quinn, Joe DeRosa
Where to watch
Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Bloodstream
Curator Review
Verdict
A knowingly stupid, splattery horror-comedy with practical effects and a few inspired gags, but the thin story, uneven pacing, and grating human characters keep it from being an easy recommendation. Best approached as a midnight-movie novelty rather than a full-fledged horror-comedy standout.
Best for
fans of low-rent creature features
viewers who enjoy practical gore and slapstick violence
audiences looking for a dumb, rowdy late-night watch
people amused by parody and copyright-adjacent horror riffs
Skip if
you want sharp writing or strong character work
you dislike juvenile humor and repetitive jokes
you need consistent pacing
you’re not in the mood for a deliberately silly, trashy tone
Overview
Screamboat is exactly the kind of movie that announces its own limitations and then sprints straight into them. The premise is a joke, the dialogue is mostly a vehicle for setups and punchlines, and the human characters are written with all the depth of a concession-stand napkin. But the film does understand one crucial thing: if you’re going to build a horror-comedy around a killer mouse, the effects, kills, and timing need to do the heavy lifting.
Worth noting
That part mostly works. The practical gore is the main attraction, and the movie keeps finding ways to turn a ridiculous concept into a series of messy, crowd-pleasing bits. It has the energy of a midnight screening where the audience is half there to laugh at it and half there to cheer when it commits to the bit. When the film leans into absurdity instead of pretending to be clever, it lands better.
Bottom line
Still, the runtime feels longer than it should, and the pacing drags whenever the movie pauses for exposition or generic survival-movie chatter. If you like your horror-comedy crude, self-aware, and proudly lowbrow, there’s enough here to pass the time. If you want wit, tension, or memorable characters, this one will feel like a ferry ride with no destination.
Top Letterboxd reviews
ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ) willow (0.5★) · 782 likes
kinda obsessed with him being a totally different size every scene
Hailli (0.5★) · 626 likes
Things I would rather do instead of watching this again:
- Sink into a bathtub of diarrhea
- Carve my eyeballs out with a spoon
- Lay bare ass on a bed of legos
- Eat a large ziploc bag of dirt & glass
- Read an Oxford Dictionary front to back while Nickelback’s Rockstar plays on an endless loop
adambolt (1.5★) · 349 likes
she cream on my boat til I willie
Sam🦧 (1.5★) · 270 likes
This payed the utmost respect to the source material, there was a steam boat and also a massive severed Willy.
Just a few of my favourite lines
“Who you calling asshole dick nose?”
“I am the captain now”
“Say cheese motherfucker!”
“Don’t throw your life away for this Staten Island ferry!”
“Hey steamboat fuckface!”
I got what I expected, some of the most boring human characters I’ve seen and a little feral mouse waddling and shitting on a ferry.
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