All About Evil (2010)
8/10
Joshua Grannell
98 minutes
Natasha Lyonne,
Thomas Dekker,
Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson,
Mink Stole,
Noah Segan,
Jack Donner,
Julie-Caitlin Brown,
Peaches Christ
With its perfectly over the top performances and sheer bloody quirkiness, All About Evil delivered a sick and twisted little bright spot to the hot and cold year of horror that was 2010. If you were one of those kids that spent their childhood in a dark, dying theater, between the shelves of your local mom and pop video store, or in front of late night cable TV, then you are the built in audience for All About Evil.
Campy, horror-comedy is quite possibly the most difficult subgenre to make a successful entry for. And for that reason I usually stay far, far away from things with titles like “Hillbilly Zombies” or “Sexy College Co-eds Must Die!”. To each their own if movies like that excite you, but my corneas have been raped and money wasted a time too many. I was ready to all but dismiss All About Evil as such a film. But with a slight air of positive buzz generating, and the fact that it was produced by Darren Stein (who directed one of THE seminal mean spirited films of my teen generation, Jawbreaker), I gave in to the blind buy and thankfully didn’t regret it.
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