From the title I was expecting some journey into another realm, one where death and life meet and where strange creatures roam the land, hungry for intruders. What I got was a movie from Full Moon, so scratch all that stuff I said as they are not going to have the budget for that. What we do get is sort of a take on the original Ghoulies film with birds in the place of the Ghoulies because of the aforementioned lack of budget. A film that I knew where it was going the entire time for the most part, but I got something of a surprise at the end.
The story opens with a very fun looking brothel, the type of place that probably would not look this good in real life, because here in the United States people think we have freedom, but we cannot even have a bit of sex for money, which is almost exactly like a date, just getting straight to the point. Well this brothel is different as bad dudes get a hand in their face and are reduced to birds. Well a son comes to his father's mansion and is tasked with reviving his father which the father plans to steal his son's body like in Ghoulies and even kisses his son...strangely similar isn't it?
It was not great, I was expecting a bit more naughtiness than I got after the opening, but I will say it has more substance than most Full Moon films. I was glad that Deloris turned out to be good as it would not make sense for her to be bad considering she punishes bad guys and helped revive a child. I also like that the creepy father got what he deserved!
So the film could have used some more to it. A couple of more kills perhaps, more actual netherworld stuff rather than maybe 5 minutes of it and it looking exactly like the brothel! More nudity would have been nice too, always spices things up. Still, it had a good ending and the story had some meat in it, though maybe too much. I literally looked at the clock and it was 44 minutes into the thing and not much had happened other than establishing stuff; still, time did not drag either so that is a good thing, right?
The story opens with a very fun looking brothel, the type of place that probably would not look this good in real life, because here in the United States people think we have freedom, but we cannot even have a bit of sex for money, which is almost exactly like a date, just getting straight to the point. Well this brothel is different as bad dudes get a hand in their face and are reduced to birds. Well a son comes to his father's mansion and is tasked with reviving his father which the father plans to steal his son's body like in Ghoulies and even kisses his son...strangely similar isn't it?
It was not great, I was expecting a bit more naughtiness than I got after the opening, but I will say it has more substance than most Full Moon films. I was glad that Deloris turned out to be good as it would not make sense for her to be bad considering she punishes bad guys and helped revive a child. I also like that the creepy father got what he deserved!
So the film could have used some more to it. A couple of more kills perhaps, more actual netherworld stuff rather than maybe 5 minutes of it and it looking exactly like the brothel! More nudity would have been nice too, always spices things up. Still, it had a good ending and the story had some meat in it, though maybe too much. I literally looked at the clock and it was 44 minutes into the thing and not much had happened other than establishing stuff; still, time did not drag either so that is a good thing, right?