A group of obnoxious friends gather together to set up their annual haunted house attraction. While showing off his knowledge of Greek history, an idiot metalhead recites an incantation and accidentally awakens “Apollyon” the Destroyer. The gruesome Greek god then proceeds to chase the friends around an abandoned bowling alley where he makes mincemeat out of them with his trusty sledgehammer.
All that sounds well and good until you realize this is a Chris Seaver movie. If this material was played with a straight face (or even with a little tongue in cheek humor), it might’ve worked. However, there’s only so much of Seaver’s offensive humor, racist jokes, and annoying characters you can take before it all spins off the rails. The amateurish performances coupled with the foulmouthed humor is particularly hard to take in the early going.
Luckily, things improve slightly once the hulking “Destroyer” shows up and starts offing the characters one by one. The gore is OK too as there are plenty of ripped out guts, severed heads, and ripped out guts being used to sever heads to go around. Despite the gore in the last reel, I was a little surprised by Seaver’s restraint in the finale. I mean, the characters are stuck in a bowling alley. There are a couple of severed heads lying around. Are you telling me that the Destroyer couldn’t have at least bowled one of the heads down a lane and scored a strike? Talk about missed opportunities.
Some of Seaver’s cinematic offerings are fun. I probably enjoy Terror at Blood Fart Lake and Moist Fury more than most sane people. This is definitely one of his weakest outings, which pains me to say because the Destroyer character is ripe with possibilities. Maybe one day he can remake it, cut back on some of the offensive humor, and up the gore, and Seaver will have himself a real gem on his hands.
This one's a decent one if you see the unedited version, the streaming version cuts out some nudity and gore. Personally I didn't find the humor offensive at all.
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