This kind of reminded me of Bloody Birthday in the way it kinda can’t decide what movie it wants to be. There are elements in this one that I love to see in any horror movie – a slight tongue-in-cheek-ness, complete mind-f*cking surreality – but the problem in the end is, it’s pretty damn impossible to make rape funny, and there is a lot of rape in this movie (it’s in fact the entire concept – freaky mommy likes to see her two freaky sons catch and rape young women). The fact that it tries to put these things together, and the fact that the combo does repel me so, makes me unable to deny it’s a semi-sorta-powerful movie … but I can’t say I enjoyed it at all, and I doubt I’ll watch it again. It’s an interesting movie in its way, but when you can get the power from Last House on the Left and the freaky black humour from any number of other schlocky sources, really, why bother?

Incidentally, I do kind of find it funny that in the past couple of days I seem accidentally to have watched two surely massive inspirations for Grindhouse – “Planet Terror” is directly out of the whole Nazi Zombie idea that Shock Waves was a part of, and the surprisingly believable characters of the three girls here was certainly one of the best things it had going, and totally reminded me of the girls in Tarantino’s “Death Proof”. One thing I will say is that I would certainly rather watch these oldies, and any more like them, than Grindhouse again.

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