This film is actually really good fun. I had pretty low expectations because it's a 'comedy horror' which usually means - not very funny and not at all scary. This, however, was genuinely entertaining. The plot is wonderfully ridiculous – Jack the plumber/student has serious anger management issues ever since he witnessed his family get brutally killed by a monster troll (oh yes, this is good stuff!) when he was a child. His tutor – Robert Englund – lives in a big old house in the sticks, with a secret buried in the garden. Englund totally steals the show (depsite the plumber being pretty darn hot), and although it's low budget, the 'monster effects' are really quite charming in a silly sort of way. Overall, very good fun (and not at all scary).SECOND OPINION: Well, I think Rach has summed this up perfectly and there's not much more to be said. Think Bad Taste, Army of Darkness et al but with charm. Or, to put it another way, if they make part II, I'm first in the queue to see it. Great fun.
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