Why I loved it

Aside from the great acting and spirit of the film. Beyond the great script and well executed and easy to follow plot. On top of the intentionally low production value and over the top humor. One reason I can think of that people love this movie is that death sucks.

While a good horror movie will scare you into enjoying life, and a good comedy will lighten your burdens, a good horror/comedy will do even more for you. Allowing you to feel happy because we are mortal.

I can understand why people might not like this genre, but they don't seem to understand why people do. It falls in line with El Dia De los Muertos in Mexico, a chance to laugh at death. To make light our deepest fears and repressions is psychologically healthy.

I had no idea how great this movie was going into it, but it reminded me of movies I made when I was younger, stories I wrote, that acted as outlets. To make a great horror comedy you have to take things into the absurd, since death and comedy are usually at complete odds, especially graphic death. I'm reminded of the scene in "Scary Movie" where the girl breaks her leg intentionally to help make the killer's chase more cliche'.

The movie intentionally set polar extremes against each other while making it all seem logical to the characters. This is a perfect set up for satire and irony. Examples include:

Almost all characters were trying to be vegetarian, but they were also eating meat, primarily human, the entire film. Whatever health food or morality aspects involved were completely nullified by this.

All the women were "sluts" or "whores" or simply "immoral" even finding a perfect virgin to be valued no higher than food, which would imply a very misogynistic point of view, except all the work being done was in the name of and for the reincarnation of the goddess Sheetar. They worshipped a woman, yet devalued the very idea of womanhood simultaneously. In the end, only the women were strong enough to survive unharmed, the detective, the virgin, and the goddess. The only woman they made no effort to kill, was the only woman who could stop them. The goddess they died for made no effort to save them.

As many people as they killed, no one really seemed too bothered by it. Horrible mass murders are as important to the characters (not the killers themselves) as dancing or clean clothes. The restaurant owner next door found out the truth but only cared about the recipes. The police end up killing about as many people as the brothers do, and only in the process of stopping the Tutman brothers.

For the budget, for the genre, for the decade, I really don't think a better film could have been made. I could go on, but I've already crossed the "This totally was teh suxxors!" barrier and went deep into actual analysis, thus losing 95% of the detractors.



It's "must have", "should have", "could have", and "would have". For God's sake there's no "of".