Reviews

The voice acting is disgustingly overdone and the speculations by the interviewees are unfounded. The owner of the Odditorium is not a real expert and his rambling about Fish is not helpful. The reenactments are bizarre and weirdly drawn out and make it hard to take the story seriously. Examples: bare bottoms being spanked over dramatic music; an old man painting a wall with fake blood (twice); a tied-up man being whipped; a young man standing against a cross with arrows coming out of him while an old man stares at his ribs; Jesus standing in front of two angels; raw beef being chopped with a dull knife; an old man writing with a fountain pen and laughing while classical music plays on the radio. When there isn't an uncomfortably long reenactment scene, there are photos and clips of random images, most of which are irrelevant to the story. It was pretty clear that a lot of the pictures were grabbed from a Google search for some generic topic (the most egregious was the inclusion of a painting from an H. P. Lovecraft story as a reference to cannibalism). Any images that are actually important to the information (like a photograph of Fish) are used over and over and over again and are buried in the muck of "flavor." Really bad.