Somebody picked up the ball from Hulu’s “Into The Dark” series and ran with it. This tale of a christmas dinner visit gone horribly wrong could be lifted straight from that series, and, if it had been, would have been one of the better ones. Twisted psycho invites lovers over for dinner, but with a little encouragement from her mad-scientist-type brother, has a hard time telling between “guests” and “toys”.
Like “Into The Dark”, it’s basically bad, but in this case, it’s over-the-top and just twisted enough, with committed enough performances from the actors playing the psychos, to keep it entertaining and at least watchable, despite how terrible it is as a movie. I wouldn’t ever go out of my way to watch it, but if you’re looking for some grody horror fare and the pickings are slim, you could probably do a lot worse than this. It succeeds, such as it is, by not being as absolutely execrable as it seems like it’s going to be.