Howden can be hugely entertaining when he mixes some brains and heart in with the guts and gore, which is about half the time - mostly, the first half.

An unhinged horror comedy ...

It's the rare over-the-top horror show that's also brimming with heart. Even if that heart is being ripped from somebody's chest.

Landing somewhere between 'Heavy Metal 2000' and the original 'Evil Dead,' Howden's bloodletting send-up 'Deathgasm' is just the kind of silly, stupid horror party movie that people have been trying to replicate for decades.