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Awful disappointment, and I’m not the type of horror fan who gets very excited about a metal horror-splatter. Based on the responses from festivals, it seems that everybody liked Deathgasm, and with New Zealand setting the bar pretty high for horror comedies last year (Housebound, What We Do In the Shadows), I was expecting at least some user friendly, fun silliness. If only! It was SO sad! And predictable! Really, I didn’t laugh even once throughout the whole film, and when I tried to fight my boredom guessing what would be the next embarrassing attempt at humour the creators would come up with, I was right several times. The gore and the make-up are fairly good (one star for that, at least), but it all feels boring and repetitive. All the possessed look the same, and then they are stabbed, chopped or cut with a chainsaw followed by bucketfuls of blood, rinse and repeat. Boring, sad, bad, avoid. (2015.10.02)

The start of this movie is absolutely brilliant. Any fan of ultra blackened death metal will surely be delighted. But, this excitement will be cut short when you fully realize that it is actually a splatter movie and the death-metal catchphrases are a bit too much. At the same time, the story is off-base in the right way. The actors are perfectly wacky and overall it has such a distinctive atmosphere that you almost feel like it is a part of death brutal grindcore metal. In the end, I admit that I will always be indecisive on whether the movie is humorous or a splatter. Unfortunately, I do not accept both. (2016.06.23)

It's not a masterpiece by any means. It has too many elements that bothered me - the main one being the digital effects, which are just awful in places. And the effort to make things happen isn’t that good. But the topic isn't bad, the execution isn't either, and here and there, one can actually have a good laugh. The parody is done nicely here; you don't even get the feeling that it's awkward, like in classic horror parodies. (2015.12.10)