Mm-hmm. Crazy. I kinda covered this and From Beyond in the Dolls review but for the sake of completion, here goes. This has its humourous moments, but I really found it pretty boring in the end. I literally can’t think of much more to say about it. The music is okay – especially the main theme … but it’s so obviously a barely modified version of Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho theme (and the shower scene string stings appear towards the end also), even that’s not really a good reason to watch the movie. If there is a good reason it’s maybe Jeffrey Combs in the lead. While not up there with The Tall Man, Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, etc (I always forget about him, anyway), Combs definitely made something out of Herbert West that’s really worth seeing at least once – though, I hate to say, even that for me tired towards the end here.

I’m very glad I finally decided to watch this one before Halloween, not least because I’m sure I’ve actually been disappointed by it before. It’s mostly fun … kind of as funny and competent as the couple of family-friendly “spoofs” I’ve watched recently … only with added tacky Peter Jackson gore – just … not as funny, not as gory, and far from as interesting in the story department.

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