Wendy Ide 

The Void review – an effects-driven gore-fest

This messy horror movie lives up to its title for all the wrong reasons
  
  

Characters hiding under sheets in The Void.
Some of the cast attempt to look ghostly in The Void. Photograph: handout/HANDOUT

This gleefully amateurish satanic gore-fest is the kind of film you might get if you gave a 15-year-old horror fan access to a strobe light, some white bed sheets and a job lot of exploding prosthetic heads. The plot is of negligible importance in a movie that feels more like a CV for an effects artist than a coherent story. In the basement of a burned-out hospital, grotesque cadavers hang like flesh stalactites, and a monster that looks like the leftovers from a liposuction operation picks off the cast. Fortunately a chatty evil genius is on hand to explain his nefarious plan at length (while simultaneously flaying off his own skin, for some reason).

 

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