Anders Thomas Jensen is one of Denmark's most fêted film-makers, the winner of two Oscars and a man with a knack for twisted comedies.

Like the mansion where most of the action unfolds, writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen's fourth feature brims with mutant creatures, bestial desires and warped family feelings.

A darkly comic dysfunctional family drama rather than the carnival of grotesquery it could have been.

Those desiring an offbeat, off-color dark comedy chockablock with nitwits conducting their dimwitted ballet will find ample mystery boiling beneath its doltish surface to make this odd affair a thing of strange intrigue.