One of my all time favorites.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Blistering performances.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I love this film. Love. I watched a while back on the Independent Film Channel, and i love how funny and extremely gory it is, a very clever film with an adorable Timothy Balme in the lead. A lot of little in jokes, like the rat being on Skull Island, home of Kong, etc. Very, very gory, the priest is hysterical kicking ass for the Lord. Love, love, love it.

Back in the very first couple of years of IMDb's existence, there were some God-awful films that made their way into the Top 250 List. This is one of the more extreme examples. The DVD cover for the movie states that it's 'the goriest fright film of all time'. Since I'm not a fan of this stuff, that statement could very well be true as I haven't seen much to judge it by. The only thing I know is that if the film makers had a goal of making the most disgusting film possible ever, they probably achieved their life's ambition here. The gross-out factor of the picture is way off the Richter scale, and gets my vote for the worst movie in history that should never have been made. Now I know there's an audience for stuff like this and to their credit, director Peter Jackson and writer Stephen Sinclair did a commendable job in creating an over the top gore-fest that looks like it was meant to be more of a horror spoof than anything else. I mean really, you've got a goofy looking Sumatran rat monkey, a kung fu priest, a werewolf/zombie effect that transforms it's victims into the walking dead, and a lawnmower scene that's not to be believed. For some reason there were repeated scenes of the film's hero (hero?) administering the old 'hypo up the nose trick' with some kind of serum developed by a Nazi doctor. When the love interest Paquita (Diana Peñalver) had her fill of all the nonsense going on, she just joined right in to deliver more buckets of blood with the rest of them. If you've got a queasy stomach there are any number of scenes that will send you to the porcelain goddess, and you better be quick about it.I was actually surprised to learn that Peter Jackson helmed this picture, but when the opening scene described the setting of Skull Island off the coast of Sumatra, it all made sense. Jackson would return to Skull Island in 2005 to take a crack at the rat monkey's cousin. Safe to say, "King Kong" wasn't nearly as bloody.

**THIS REVIEW COULD CONTAIN A LOT OF SPOILERS. IF THE READER DOESN'T WANT THE FILM TO POSSIBLY BE SPOILED FOR THEM, THEN I SUGGEST WATCHING THE MOVIE BEFORE READING THIS REVIEW. Thank You.**I do believe that this movie is supposed to be a horror comedy, or so that's my best guess anyway. Anything else that would've been aimed for would've just been ridiculous. It's so silly it makes me laugh. The "well constructed" and planned over-the-top effects were executed perfectly in this film. When the movie started, I thought it was going to be a monster on an island type movie, but boy was I wrong. A team of zoologists capture this weird looking rat thing, and bring it back to the states to be placed in a zoo. They knew that whoever gets bit from the rat thing, will turn brain dead ("Brain Dead" is the original title.)and develop zombie like traits. When they become infected, it's just like any other zombie, once it bites someone else, then they'll be transformed as well. This all begins to happen at the zoo when the son of a wealthy old woman goes to the zoo, and spies on her son with a woman he met delivering them their groceries from their regular store. For some reason she didn't want him seeing other women (this is explained towards the end of the movie to why she didn't want him dating). She then gets bit by the rat when she was hiding behind a bush spying on them, because she got too close to the cage. When she screamed, the guy (her son) recognizes it, and dreads it. He notices her getting bit, but she pushes it off of her, and bashes its skull in off the ground. This is where the fun begins in the movie. Believe me. It's a trip and a half. The guy starts stuffing people that become infected in his mother's old basement (now his basement because of inheritance after his mother's death), hoping no one will find out. It's funny as hell because he starts feeding the zombies, and grooming them; along with whatever other goofy sh*t, like sitting them down and helping them get comfortable. He does all sorts of hospitality chores for them, which I actually got a kick out of. There's also a bunch of ridiculous mishaps that occur while he is attempting to keep this situation isolated, while also in the midst of battling with his uncle over the inheritance of the manor. This movie tickled me in some parts. Some will find it silly/funny, and others will find it over-the-top stupidity. Depends on what kind of person you are. The acting is fair, the script is fair, the story- line is silly, and the dialog is also silly. I would recommend this movie to people who appreciate low budget comedy horror, for a one time laugh.

This movie is fantastically entertaining! We laughed and were entertained from the start to the finish, I had no idea what to expect. Thought it would just be another regular slasher, horror movie, but instead it was incredibly fun and on top of that very, very, very funny!The amount of gore was amazing but mostly it was for fun/funny/entertainment value. I wasn't really scared or frightened for any of this movie.Didn't even realize it had such a huge name director until visiting this page :)