Grotesque comedy, not horror

Rating: 7/10 (6 May 2017)

While the first half of the film is getting increasingly weird and builds up some really scary scenes like the first hypnotism scene, at around the two-third mark it just starts to become so much absurd and grotesque, that it actually turns increasingly funny and not very much scary any more. The racist clichÃ©s are thrown around in a way that they become a rather shallow caricature of racism, and the scene where Rod explains his theory to the police about rich white people abducting black people to make them their brainwashed slaves actually summarizes very well how satyric the whole setup truly is. I couldn't decide how much intentional or not that was, but I liked this change - while it ruins the creepy atmosphere, it makes the movie more than the "average" horror movie.
It's a very much enjoyable, well made movie - it's just not a horror, but a satire.