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Peltzer is a defeated man. That's his lot in life and it guides his every decision. Many a good horror movie has a weak-link character whose role is to make the irrational decisions necessary to forward the plot: Harry Cooper in Return of the Living Dead, Miguel Ferrer in Deep Star Six. Now imagine the lead character in a story being such a man. That's the strong point of this movie. It leaves the viewer squirming in their seat, helpless as we ever could be. There's no use shouting at the screen, no point cursing the character; he's going to do what he has to do and you can only enjoy the train wreck. As typical per a Troma-style movie, you have unrelenting bullies who utterly humiliate the most vulnerable characters. People you want to die the most horrible deaths imaginable, but I don't want to spoil that. Cool points go to the writer for dropping Henenlotter's name on one of the facilities.

If you ignore the first few minutes which look like trendy music video editing, this film really shines as true horror. It's not your typical slasher. A previous review said the characters are unreal... I beg to differ. That's what makes this a great horror flick. You DON'T want the characters to die. You're rooting for them to kill or escape Chromeskull.

The only character that's somewhat hard to deal with is our heroine, because she has amnesia and talks like she's had a stroke. Considering what she's been through it works, though it's annoying, but that too is addressed.

Seriously though, the characters are GREAT. None of them are expendable extras or stereotypes like in a traditional slasher, regardless of their survival rate.

The gore is extremely graphic and the effects are amazing--a bit over the top for my tastes, especially considering that these are people you want to live. Psychologically speaking, it's not good to show those you root for being mutilated. Only once did they make the right but it doesn't earn any stars at that point.

There's a bit of nudity, which was unnecessary but I suppose it goes with the territory. There's no sex romps and the shower scene is brief thankfully--I guess the guy just likes some of his victims naked.

Check it out if you're not squeamish and want some extreme edge of your seat horror. This is the kind of film where you'll practically be yelling at the actors on screen--it's that good.