A Send Up to Sleaze That Works

Rating: 6/10 (14 January 2007)

Eli Roth's send up to sleaze ain't bad. It isn't just terribly good in its own right, but I love the fact that he's making hard-R-rated horror. For an "exploitation" film it's tame. You're not gonna get your frills here if you cut your teeth on stuff by Deodato or even early Peter Jackson, but you can still appreciate the fact that Roth is making an effort to put the umph back into mainstream genre pictures. Is Roth the wunderkind savior of horror? No. But, he's trying.
And, you know what, it is a decent little picture. Odes to Suicide Club, Takashi Miike's cameo, etc. aside, you can dig the film as an okay addition from Roth. Lots of t'n'a and a decent amount of gore and an okay story make it at least worth a watch.