Don't insult me. I'm a true horror fan and I LOVED this

Rating: 8/10 (1 May 2012)

To the reviewer who said 'if you're a true horror fan over the age of 15, you will HATE this'... how wrong you are. Maybe you forget the pure joy of sitting in the dark and screaming and laughing? I LOVE movies and I LOVE horror. I am a true horror fan. I am 35 years old. I have a degree in film and cultural studies and I am passionate aboute the craft. But not just the craft of making art, also about the craft of making excellent popular movies. This is a great example of the latter.
FYI, my favourite horror movies include 'Martyrs', 'Rec', 'A Tale of Two Sisters', 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'The Shining'. That said, I truly enjoy a balls-to-the-wall well-made horror gong-show and this is that movie.
Is it perfect? Of course not. But it IS the most entertaining, risky mainstream horror in recent years. Yes, risky. 90% of mainstream US horror these days is so by-the-numbers-cell-phone-brigade-friendly it makes me want to cry. TCITW turns that on its head; I can honestly say I had no idea who would live or die and what the hell was going to happen next. It is genuinely funny, and even for someone who had pretty much deconstructed the trailer, the third act was not what I was prepared for. I knew something twisted was coming; who didn't? But the execution was excellent. Unicorn disembowelling?! You think the filmmakers threw that in there for any other reason than to be ridiculous? We are post-post modern now. Embrace this for what it is - a whacked out, well made and knowing horror-comedy that pushes all the right buttons.