(Leo Dooley - Lab Rats season 4 promo)
There are so many interesting things about Leo Dooley from the Lab Rats TV series, he's an aspiring inventor, he loves video games and he's a bionic superhero. But something that I noticed is his love of horror movies, for instance, in the first season 13th episode "Chore Wars" it showed his love of the Pig Zombie movies. When his mother Tasha Davenport wouldn't allow him to see the latest installment in the movie series, Pig Zombie Cruise Ship Massacre: Hungry Hogs on the High Seas, he wanted to see the movie so bad that he convinced his stepfather Donald Davenport to take him.
His clever little ruse worked until his mother found out that he disobeyed her and lied to his stepfather in order to see a movie he wasn't supposed to see. He did end up getting grounded and wasn't able to watch the Pig Zombie movie marathon with Donald. What I liked about this episode is that it showed that Leo and Donald shared an interest in horror movies and it allowed them to create a bond over it. At the end of the episode, Donald had convinced Tasha to let Leo watch the movie marathon with him giving them more father-son bonding time.
Leo's love for horror movies continues in the third season 7th episode "Principal from Another Planet". In this episode, the Dooley Davenport family were trying to stop Principal Theresa "Terry" Perry after she had turned into an alien and tried to attack the heroic family. What was fun about this episode is that you didn't find out until the end that this was a horror sci-fi movie that Leo had filmed for his entry for an amateur film festival. Something I found interesting is that despite Leo's love of horror movies he is easily scared because in the fourth season 12th episode "Bionic Action Hero" he mentioned the Killer Zombie Trucker movies and thanks to those movies he can no longer go to the restroom at truck stops.
Another fourth season episode "The Curse of the Screaming Skull", really showed Leo's love of horror movies. At the beginning of the episode, he mentioned that he had just finished a 24 hour horror movie marathon which also scared him tremendously. Throughout the episode whenever something creepy or scary happened, he would relate the incident to one of the movies he watched. In the episode he mentioned these three horror movies: Skull Apocalypse, Death Trap Island and When Curse Friends Kill. Coincidentally, each film tied in perfectly with this episode which had former Principal Perry digging up a metal skull on an island and bringing it back to the Bionic Island where it "cursed" Leo's brother Chase Davenport who had set up death traps trying to kill Leo, Perry and Leo and Chase's older sister Bree. Then Bree became "cursed" and she teamed up with Chase to try to kill the others on the Bionic Island. This was a fun episode that was very horror movie inspired.
As a horror movie fan, I can't tell you how much I relate to Leo Dooley's love of horror movies. From the good, the bad and the absolutely cheesy, I can pretty much watch them all. Sometimes the movies are so bad you can't help laughing at them but sometimes it's good to watch terrible movies. Let Leo be your inspiration this Halloween by watching as many horror movies as you can.
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