The ironic comedy detracts from any sense of thrill or horror

Rating: 6/10 (15 April 2012)

SPOILERS are included in this review.
Many people will feel that if they don't like this film they will be criticized for not ''getting it''.
Yes, yes we get the point...this is a post-modern satire on the clichés we always see in horror films, but it is not a subtle or sophisticated satire.
Any point in the film where there is a sense of impending dread, the scene immediately cuts away to the Austin Powers style organization who are setting up the events. This means that the tone is constantly changing from horror to comedy. In so doing the film has no sense of real dread required to be a thrilling horror, nor is the comedy sustained enough for satisfying humor.
The film is original and fast paced, but only because it has no narrative parameters. It is entirely anarchic in tone involving zombies, 60s b-film monsters, sci-fi, satanic gods, a Dr Evil style organization from a James Bond film etc etc. Any film can be original if it willing to just mesh together every genre with no real thought for continuity.
The thing that keeps you watching is largely because you want to find out what the organization's motives are. The problem is that the answer i.e. placating evil gods....is just too ridiculous and superficial to be satisfying
The film is simply too self-referential and self conscious to be genuinely thrilling.