wonderfully awful movie full of genius

Rating: 9/10 (9 May 2005)

Look there's an awful lot of pompous hot air written about this movie but I fell I have to get the record straight. This is a gleeful, irreverent, hip, mad genre beast of a film. If you like wacky, twisty, Coen Bros like movies full of artifice and inventiveness and sheer irreverence for every moral convention and you're not afraid of an awful large dose of horror this is for you. Of course its silly, and if you must, it might even be offensive but its at least three times better than anything the West is producing. Here is genre film making at its very best (SHEER VISUAL WIT) and its worst (sheer narrative awfulness). Many reviewers have written about its terrible story line but they're missing the point. Of course its a daft storyline, but then again who said Todd Solontzs story lines are wonderful but his films are rich, insane and daft at the same time. At its base its just laugh out loud funny and awful. THere are scenes of true horror and true pathos and scenes of mind bending po-facedness but thats the point. Think what Dario Argentino was doing twenty years back and add in the humour and wit and you have it. Wonderful and of course truly terrible as well.