There are maybe three good scenes in this. One is stolen from Amityville II - The Possession, another is lifted from Quentin And Robert Fight The Vampires, and there's another one, possibly the best of them all, that has the old Killer Stalks Victim In Public Shit-House device, possibly in homage to Wes Craven Presents Scream, or Ghoulies Go To College. At times, these sequences are handled with a wit and cunning that make them appear vibrant, original, and even, by God, highly tense. But there's so much shit bundled around it that it's hardly worth the effort.

Phillipe Nahon gives a performance, certainly, but whether it's worth a rancid toss is another matter entirely. You may remember him from those other controversial heart-warmers The Man Who Screwed His Daughter and The Gays Versus The Fire-Extinguisher, both directed by Gasper Noe, and both proving that Nahon can do the old Uncomfortably Sleazy Bloke very well indeed. Here, however, he's granted neither CGI-assisted skull-crushing nor half-arsed social commentary, and is left with little to do than grunt and breath heavy. And get blow jobs from severed heads.

But who the hell knows. Maybe it's all about Vietnam and I'm just missing the point. Maybe it's a big in-joke and I'm to be lambasted and Mocked so hard that I'll be headed for Golgotha on account of how I failed to pick up on the politically subversive undercurrent.

I guess I'm just gonna have to resign myself to thinking what I think right now. This was an average slasher film which at times offers genuine surprise, but loses its way somewhere around the fortieth slow-motion woman-running-away shot, and screws itself royally with a "twist" that is among the most ridiculous, laughable and deplorable ever filmed, and yet somehow remains inspired in it's idiocy.

It's better than the Chain Saw remake, and a lot better than House With Many, Many Corpses, but I'm fucked if I'm handing over accolades just because it was slightly less mediocre than those crud-fests.

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