It's not Gothic Horror, it's a Severe Black Comedy!

Rating: Null/10 (26 June 1999)

Everyone has it all wrong. It's not a Gothic Horror movie at all....although it has all the elements on the surface, sure. But if you look at it from the screenplay and situational side you'll notice a lot of stuff that's just evilly hilarious, and smartly adapted for the screen too. I think Cassavettes decided to play his role really smug because he just got finished shaking everything up in the film world all over again with "Faces", and Mia Farrow's downward spiral was really cool to watch unfold up until the very end, where she just decided, probably after going catatonic, to keep the demonspawn. Everybody's said enough about Ruth Gordon's great performance already. But this movie really is black comedy, from the stereotypical (at the time) "asian-with-a-camera", to the scrabble piece fun, to the hilarity of a 75 year old woman screaming "Hail Satan!"...It's just funny. Really.