Review: Twisted!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2011
A bit short on plot, but that's my only complaint about this otherwise well-crafted tale. A good mix of gore and humor, irony and hyperbole, makes for a rollicking ride, rather more like a short rollercoaster at the county fair than a longer (and safer) ride at Six Flags. In other words, it'll take your breath away and leave you running back to the front for another go.I have a particular affection for alternative monsters, especially those involving modern biotechnology, so this tickled that fancy. Max (Specimen 278) is a meat-eating plant with a taste for human flesh. A bit anthropomorphic, but still enjoyable. His creator, Prethorius, is both abhorrant and (strangely) sympathetic, rather like Rick Moranis in Little Shop of Horrors and Gene Wilder's Young Doctor Frankenstein.