Director: Josh Forbes
Year: 2024
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Plot:
Desperate to get his career going, a weak-willed struggling musician manages to come into contact with a rowdy neighbor who is accidentally killed following their encounter, and when that prompts him to keep more deaths under wraps is unsure if that will keep him from his dreams.
Review:
This was a decided mixed-bag affair that won’t always work for everyone. When this one works the best is the way this one acts as a demented character-building arc involving the way the interactions with the body parts are used to turn him into a different person altogether. With the early setup bringing about an idea of who he is and his struggles with both his life and job, the way he changes his personality the more involved he gets with the various bodies turning up around him is a bit fun with what goes on here. That this is all accomplished with the use of wildly inventive and gruesome dismembered body parts that come about with the various figures who become involved in the journey as these interactions play out with deformed gore being used to focus on keeping this light-hearted and goofy atmosphere constant, for better or for worse. These manage to bring about some likable qualities to this one in some sense.
There are some big problems with this one that hold it back. The biggest issue with the film is the often outright difficult attempts at liking the type of comedy featured here. The whole concept of the weak-willed loser that lets everyone walk all over him as he has no spine or backbone to speak of and is turned on the down-on-his-luck figure who he’s shown as in the beginning stages just isn’t funny in the slightest. The type of loser he’s portrayed as with this setup wears incredibly thin quite quickly as he’s not shown as a sympathetic figure regardless of the need to finish his album or take care of his domineering girlfriend with these aspects all making him into a lowly pushover that’s not worth investing much of our attention in as he continually finds himself stuck in such absurd situations the longer this goes on. That carries just as much weight as the opening where this one goes to such absurd lengths to keep the storyline going where none of it is funny or scary as the bodies keep accruing around him which is a big factor to this one.
The other real issue with this one is that, even if this one is going for the goofy and comical, there are a slew of big issues here that make for a tough time buying into the story at play. With the inability to mention why the creatures continually appear or torment him after being killed, how they’re able to interact with him, or why no one else can figure out if these interactions are a part of his imagination or if he did all the crimes as it jumps around continually all of these factors without answering any of it. There’s also no real need for why the guy goes through with anything here, with the whole situation being started by a total accident and then just immediately going into bodily dismemberment with no build-up or context for doing it which is a major factor against this since the instigating incident doesn’t make sense. All told, these are enough to bring it down enough overall.
Overview: */5
A barely worthwhile and generally flawed genre effort, this one has a few decent ideas at play here that are nowhere near enough to overcome the mountain of flaws on display here. Those who are fans of the storyline concept or the creative crew will be the main targets for this one while most others out there should heed caution.
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