Soultangler

This amateurish paraphrase of Re-Animator jumps schizophrenically between attempts at unsettling visions and splatstick humour, while part of its charm remains the amusing fact that the filmmakers, despite their apparent verve, don’t entirely succeed in providing either. In the director's cut, with it likably and exceptionally reasonable 62-minute runtime, Soultangler takes the form of a relatively brisk home-grown farce with an absurd premise, appropriately amateurish style and a boisterous variety amusingly handcrafted gore effects. But just the thought of the original 90-minute version is borderline terrifying. (2021.11.18)