A Sledgehammer Of Self-Satisfying Satire

Rating: 3/10 (12 October 2012)

Overly ambitious Horror homage that is an overkill of ideas and is amazingly not entertaining considering that the Writer was the talent behind the excellent TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It seems the idea man is much more creative when he has the screen time to let the juices flow over a long period of time.
However, this seems cramped and claustrophobic with an overflow of images and too much mayhem to be anything more than a self-satisfying silly statement on the modern Horror film. It is done with such heaviness that the "Black Comedy" is drowned in a deluge of half-realized parodies and screen references obliterated by gallons of blood.
It's all here in a bloated belief that the makeup, CGI, and a parade of "monster icons" could have fans salivating with glee as they impress each other with a checklist of terror trivia. There is an abundance of audience pleasing references but the whole template of ancient rituals combined with a modern technological setup is never really convincing and the final image is a giant metaphor for bigger is not always better.