Director: William Bagley
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Creature Feature; Horror/Comedy
Plot:
Moving into a new neighborhood, a couple find themselves forced to attend a local homeowners’ association meeting, where the entire reason behind it was to use their help in stopping a horde of creatures being released from a portal to Hell nearby, putting their hesitation to the test during the battle.
Review:
This was a rather fun and highly enjoyable genre effort. Among the better features of this one is the incredibly creative and silly setup, which offers a unique and engaging starting point. The initial idea on display seems to be the idea of an oppressive and bizarrely rigid home owners’ association that they will be at odds with the new liberal homeowners that have just moved in, but it soon transgresses into something else entirely offering a distinctly comedic take on a siege narrative once they get the full context of the HOA’s purpose. Realizing that they’re actually a protective force against the denizens of a special portal to Hell that’s opened in their neighborhood and that the entire reasoning for everything was to save others from these creatures, there’s a generally crazed atmosphere here to the out-of-his-element husband being forced to confront the ever-growing collection of creatures and ghouls that are involved in the chaos.
That all provides the kind of setup that offers a chance for plenty of action and laughs to be had throughout here. That everyone else is expecting him to be familiar with the situation when he clearly isn’t, and being completely unable and ill-equipped to handle the gaggle of witches, zombies, werewolves, and other creatures that emerge, has quite a strong comedic undertone to everything that happens. While the action itself is strong and manages to work with the storyline concepts it utilizes rather effectively, it’s the way it’s all structured as a character-building exercise as well makes everything so much fun, with the affair managing to bring about his sense of self-worth and more decisive attitude while trying to battle a series of impressive-looking creatures full of indie charm and bloodshed throughout here.
Overview: ****.5/5
An enjoyable and immensely fun genre effort, this one has a lot to like about it, which is more than enough to keep this one going, as there’s not much in the way of flaws here at all. Those with an interest in this style of genre fare, who are curious about it, or who are looking for this style of comedic fare while those turned off by these factors should heed caution.
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