A streak of social commentary that ultimately collides with the story’s religiosity in bitterly ironic fashion...

This second feature by naughty Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia turns out to be a splendidly blasphemous horror-comedy about nothing less than the birth of the Antichrist.

At two hours, the gore is thick but the fun is spread thin. Gallows humour is the order of the day, though nobody seems to have realised that black comedy is still required to be funny.

It's de la Iglesia's wicked sense of humor that proves to be the picture's greatest strength.