Absolute Garbage. Contains Spoilers

Rating: 1/10 (10 June 2017)

So, what was this supposed to be? A horror? A black comedy along the lines of TTCM? Or a clumsy, poorly written and badly acted and overlong exercise in vanity?
If it was either of the first two then it failed, horribly. If it was meant to be the latter then it filled its remit, and then some.
The entire first hour is pointless, slow, tedious and just bad. The script is appalling, the acting is hammy beyond belief and the pacing is all over the place. There is a potentially decent backstory with a racist smalltown cop showing up, but he gets his one scene and then is written out of the script for good. In fact, that entire segment adds nothing to the plot and serves only to fill a little time and break up the drive to the parents house.
Now, once they get there the whole thing just falls to pieces. From the awkward dinner to the 'OMG I forgot the annual family get together is this weekend' to the slightly unhinged brother who just happens to swing by,the scene is set for a journey into ham fisted am-dram of the very worst kind.
I'm not going to go into much detail here, but there are two elements that ruin the entire story. The first one being the under, or over used comic relief, depending on your POV, and the absurd hypnosis plot device. This put the film firmly in the Billy Drago world of bad movies. In fact, his inclusion might have made it better. Thats how bad it is.
So blah blah blah, white people are evil and insane. we get it. If this had been at least a little bit funny it might have worked, but its just...bad. There was a very funny idea in here, but it was completely wasted. If somebody with a sense of the absurd had taken this idea it could have been a classic, but instead it was stilted, dull and flimsy. The idea of young black guys bodies being taken over by old rich white folk should have been a rich seam of farcical situational comedy. If it had been made in the 70s with Richard Pryor then we would likely be using it as the touchstone of racial comedies today. Unfortunately, that didn't happen and what we get instead is a mish mash of half baked and poorly realised ideas that are never used properly.
Its long been a criticism of IMDb that it doesn't filter out the obvious paid for reviews. Until now I've never given that much credence, but after reading some of the reviews posted Im beginning to think that maybe there's something to it.
1/10, but only because I can't give a zero