| The gleeful grisliness makes for some funny moments, and there's a nicely spooky Halloween atmosphere, due to the location shooting and the ever-present smoke machine. |
| The director, Jonathan Mossek, perhaps lets the grisliness get out of hand as the three try to torture a confession out of Ethan, who may or may not have had anything to do with the crime. |
| You keep hoping for some Roger Corman craziness or Hammer Films camp, but what you get, aside from some grisliness and partial nudity, is the American mini-series as usual. |
| From there, the action quickly shifts to a battlefield that is dominated by a sense of the grisliness and cruelty of war. |
| And he has lately written with more heart and soul, leaving the phantasmagorical grisliness behind. |
