Film Review – Gravy

 Joining the big screen celebration of Halloween is “Gravy,” a bizarre picture that doesn’t exactly top off the tank with nightmare fuel. A horror-comedy that plays unsettlingly broad, the film marks the feature-length directorial debut for actor James Roday, who also co-scripts this attempt to outdo recent cannibal movies, submitting a grotesque effort that’s slathered in gore and mindful of one-liners, while keeping a low-budget aesthetic that contains the brutality to a single location. Much too self-consciously zany to be funny, “Gravy” is best approached as a celebration of make-up achievements, with gushy guts and mutilated bodies emerging as the highlights of this wheezy Looney Tunes-style take on savagery and foodie culture. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com