But it's always fascinating to find your own squeamishness limit. Mine was right around the start of the "Deathification" segment and pretty much continued until the last couple minutes.
This is an unabashedly campy movie, sending up horror genres and horror eras, while taking shots at various sociopolitical issues. Though much of it is in incredibly bad taste, we were warned about that going in, so it seems churlish to complain about that. What this movie does that many of the parody movies of recent times -- the "Epic Movie" and "Date Movie" sorts -- never accomplish was to take the jokes and completely commit to them. The grossness factor is never a one-off stupid joke. It's generally a long string of stupid jokes that hold together because the filmmakers are entirely aware of how stupid they are and feel no shame. The puns and wordplay were just...awful, and often hilarious because of the movie's commitment to them. The "I Was a Teenage Werebear" segment was a thing of campy beauty, and the way it treated the underlying metaphor was actually pretty clever. Still incredibly campy, but clever. And it was nice to see some familiar horror faces in the cast (Lyn Shaye and Kane Hodder being the most obvious, followed closely by Ray Wise.)
Just in case I didn't make this clear before: if you have a weak stomach for gross-out humor, this is not the movie for you. It even started to get to me by the last half-hour. But if you can deal with that sort of thing, it's actually a fairly fun movie. I'm not sure if I'd recommend it to anybody I know, but I think I would recommend it to...somebody. I just don't know a lot of "somebodies" who would appreciate watching a movie with this level of gross-out factor. In a nutshell -- if you like John Waters, this is probably your perfect horror-comedy. I'm rating it a 6 simply because (and your mileage may vary) the last part was a bit *too* committed to the gross-out camp. But it was a fun ride up until then, and even then, I never turned it off.
This is an unabashedly campy movie, sending up horror genres and horror eras, while taking shots at various sociopolitical issues. Though much of it is in incredibly bad taste, we were warned about that going in, so it seems churlish to complain about that. What this movie does that many of the parody movies of recent times -- the "Epic Movie" and "Date Movie" sorts -- never accomplish was to take the jokes and completely commit to them. The grossness factor is never a one-off stupid joke. It's generally a long string of stupid jokes that hold together because the filmmakers are entirely aware of how stupid they are and feel no shame. The puns and wordplay were just...awful, and often hilarious because of the movie's commitment to them. The "I Was a Teenage Werebear" segment was a thing of campy beauty, and the way it treated the underlying metaphor was actually pretty clever. Still incredibly campy, but clever. And it was nice to see some familiar horror faces in the cast (Lyn Shaye and Kane Hodder being the most obvious, followed closely by Ray Wise.)
Just in case I didn't make this clear before: if you have a weak stomach for gross-out humor, this is not the movie for you. It even started to get to me by the last half-hour. But if you can deal with that sort of thing, it's actually a fairly fun movie. I'm not sure if I'd recommend it to anybody I know, but I think I would recommend it to...somebody. I just don't know a lot of "somebodies" who would appreciate watching a movie with this level of gross-out factor. In a nutshell -- if you like John Waters, this is probably your perfect horror-comedy. I'm rating it a 6 simply because (and your mileage may vary) the last part was a bit *too* committed to the gross-out camp. But it was a fun ride up until then, and even then, I never turned it off.