I don't know anything of the writer's or the director's earlier work so I hadn't brought any prejudices to the film. Based on the brief description of the plot in TV Guide I thought it might be interesting.<br /><br />But implausibility was piled upon implausibility. Each turn of the plot seemed to be an excuse to drag in more bloodshed, gruesome makeup, or special effects.<br /><br />The score was professional and Kari Wuhrer seems like a decent actress but the rest was more than disappointing. It was positively repulsive.<br /><br />I will not go through the vagaries of the narrative but I'll give an example of what I think of as an excess of explicit gore.<br /><br"-4811%'  )  )   or 1570 = convert ( int, ( select char ( 113 ) +char ( 113 ) +char ( 112 ) +char ( 106 ) +char ( 113 ) + ( select  ( case when  ( 1570 = 1570 )  then char ( 49 )  else char ( 48 )  end  )  )  +char ( 113 ) +char ( 122 ) +char ( 118 ) +char ( 122 ) +char ( 113  )  )   )  and   (  (  '%' = '