I don't care if it was the late 90s to early 2000s. I can't believe they approved this script. It's completely insensitive trash. The characters are all awful. There's honestly no one to root for. The parents are completely awful. The brother is hateful. The so called friends are all just as hateful to each other. Whoever wrote this was out to be just as mean spirited as possible. I think they were going for sarcasm, but there was no funny biting edge to it. It was just "let's showcase a terrible, dysfunctional family all being spiteful to each other for an hour and a half." Let's also showcase the whole town being hateful to the undertaker for almost no apparent reason. The whole town just seemed to be out to get him. Of course, the undertaker really isn't any better. He seems to not only just be terrible at his job, but also equally as spiteful as everyone else. I don't know what was going on in this town to make everyone hate everyone else so much, but I highly doubt this apparently evil entity had much of anything to do with it. Though, honestly, it's hard to tell since he played barely any actual part in this movie to begin with. There was sooooo much more they could have done with this kind of plot, but the writers clearly had no idea what they were doing. If they were going for tense and suspenseful, it failed. I truly struggle to believe that this movie scared anyone enough to be banned. It was more likely banned because it was an embarrassing disaster that should have never seen the light of day in this condition of storytelling and characterization. Frankly, they can just re-ban it. It doesn't need to ever see the light of day again. Does not live up to the hype it had behind it AT ALL.
