Popeye the Slayer Man (2025) Turns Spinach Into Carnage [Tubi Horror Review]

Genre – Horror
Director – Robert Michael Ryan
Writer – John Doolan
Cast – Jason Robert Stephens, Sarah Nicklin, Mabel Thomas, Sean Michael Conway, Angela Relucio, and Scott Swope
Runtime – 88 Minutes
My Rating – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐☆☆☆☆

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If you know anything about me, you will know I like watching low budget horror films, and Tubi is the perfect platform to find them. I don’t actually like a lot of them, but I do find some of them dumb fun and good to put on when I want to turn my brain off. Although, some are just dumb without the fun part.

So I will be doing mini reviews, well more statements, about these films, much shorter than my other reviews, and my ratings for the films will generally be based on how much fun they are, because not many of them are actually good in the objective sense.

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Popeye the Slayer Man

Friends find themselves in a fight for their lives when they sneak into an abandoned spinach factory to investigate the urban legend of the Sailor Man.

My Thoughts

Finally, someone got the joke

Unlike most of these type of movies, it doesn’t pretend to be serious horror, and is very self aware of what it is — just chaos with spinach.

Popeye as a horror villain

Super strength, spinach powered attacks, and classic lines like I Yam What I Yam make it all quite hilarious, and every aspect of the character is twisted in the right way.

The kills

The gore is over-the-top and genuinely entertaining – someone had a lot of fun choreographing this carnage.

References that actually work

Classic Popeye lore isn’t just name dropped here, as it’s woven into the plot, making even the silly moments feel earned.

Budget shows, but it’s forgivable

Some effects do look rough, and the dark lighting sometimes obscures the action, but it adds to the indie chaos charm.

Concept over execution

The plot is secondary to the idea of Popeye killing people in creative, absurd ways. And that’s fine, because the concept carries the film, as you watch for the fun spectacle, not the story.

Chaotic, messy, and addictive

The movie trips over itself constantly with rough edges, some uneven pacing, and clunky scenes — yet it’s impossible to look away. The energy on show is contagious.

Humor lands more than horror

It’s a slasher, but it’s also a comedy in disguise. The absurdity of a spinach-fueled killer is fun, and the film leans into it whenever it can.

Public domain horror done right

While most public domain horror films just stick a famous character into a generic story and take themselves far too seriously. this film is actually connected to the character. It knows what it is and doesn’t try and be anything more.

Final Thoughts on Popeye the Slayer Man

Popeye The Slayer Man is chaotic, ridiculous, and unapologetically trashy, where the horror elements rarely land, but the absurd premise and sheer audacity make it watchable.

It’s messy, it’s gory, it’s funny, and it knows exactly what it is, and this is the kind of public domain horror movie that actually gets the joke on the first try.

I had enough fun with it, and is the kind of fun cheesy trash I want from these kind of movies.

Final Score: 6 out of 10
UP: Popeye, creative kills, absurd humor, character references, chaotic fun
DOWN: Budget, dark lighting, pacing, acting

Popeye the Slayer Man Trailer

Simon Leasher

A lover of cinema for over 35 years, I have watched many films from around the world in many different genres, yet I still normally always come back to trashy slasher horror films when in doubt. More

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