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As the title indicates, this is a shot in video gem that deserves, and requires being seen. It's basically the poor-man's Creepshow This is an ultimate low-fi production with some top notch gore, given what they seem to be working with. The acting isn't great, naturally, which makes it more fun. I will say, the cast does a great job of making the down moments entertaining to remember them.

Do yourself a favor and lick up the AGFA + Bleeding Skull release for as good of a transfer as you're able to get with a few extra features thrown in on top. Definitely a must see for fans of deep-cut or underground horror.

This film is, by all intents and purposes, horrendously made. It is a true technical blunder that is so boldly self-ignorant to it's own short comings, it's amazing that it made it to a viewing format, period.

All that being said, "Things" remains wildly entertaining and impossible to look away from. The post-production dubbing alone is worth a viewing. Normally, I'd think this level of irreverence is self-aware amongst the cast and crew, but numerous (rotten) easter egg nods to horror cinema leads me to believe this was an actual effort to make a "good" horror flick. While it fails to do so, it views much like a self-aware flick from Troma. Low budget gore effects are plentiful in chunks of the film, but this is predominantly a viewing of two to three Canadian dudes, pitching laughably bizarre dialogue that plays as some surreal Lynchian mind-fudge. All this being said, this flick definitely delivers on scratching the itch of anyone looking for campy, low-budget horror.

So make some bread sandwiches, pour yourselves some pure American water, and enjoy Things for the mess that it is.