Yes, this film may not be an instant horror classic... some reviewers have criticize the gender, political and racial themes in 7 "American" nightmare vignettes directed/written by Rusty Cundieff/Darin Scott, but what's the big deal? Someone who takes this film "seriously" forget that's it just a "movie", you know entertainment for some viewers.

This "criticism" is what makes this film which is obviously rooted in 50s EC comic material. It would influence notable anthologies such as 70s Amicus film productions preceding 80s George A. Romero's "Creepshow" then up to the 90s "Tales from the Hood" (was first criticized and now celebrated as a cult film). The people who put out the latter and a recent sequel are involved with this film (which has the usual tropes of exploitation cinema).

This anthology forwards the evolution in form of an internet hacking by Danny Trejo playing the online storyteller, "Mister Malevolent". It's good to see Trejo expanding his acting roles and comedic actor, Chris Kattan is in one vignette. Viveca A. Fox and Nichelle Nichols also join in on the fun summing up a responsive anthology to the present-day politics.

This is a very strange, often perverted tale of the rotten ways of all mankind, a cynical and frequently unpleasant view of our world where I really didn't like many of the characters on screen, regardless of their race or background or gender. Both genders are pigs, with the opening scenes having women discussing male genitalia as if it's the most important thing about men, with one complaining that her boyfriend is no good, and ending up in bed on the first date with the supposed perfect man who quickly is revealed to be something other than what he seems to be. The boyfriend breaks in, a confrontation of major violence ensues, twists occur that leave someone dead, and outside of the one supposed perfect person involved in this, no one is worthy of sympathy. The second part deals with a white lawmaker, dealing with the execution of the man he sent to prison, and a twist in his own home that leads to his imprisonment. A racist Southern redneck ends up in a community that he considers perfect, and bizarre twist occur that results in the threatening of violence on a baby.

So that's just the first three of the so-called seven morality tales, viewed on a computer screen by so-called Mr. Malevolent and his assistant, played by Danny Trejo and Nichelle Nichols, hacking the hackers and creating absolute chaos, lecturing the audience and never really having a point of view outside of something that any logical human being has already figured out. This is not entertainment. In fact, I felt more cynical and anti-human after watching the first half hour than I did in a whole week of walking through the Metropolis where I live. If I had to listen to anybody talk like these characters do to each other for even half an hour a day, I would want to move to the Deep Arctic Circle and never see human life again. That is not entertainment, and the seven stories are told so quickly that everybody comes off colorless and without any shades of gray, so in the case of the morality tale being told, there is no sympathy for anybody getting what they deserve. Had there been at least two tales of decent people simply living their lives and trying to be moral with standards of class, I might have been more interested in getting the gist of what the writers were out to say. But this film is just ugly on so many levels that it was just easier to just watch it, shake my head, roll my eyes and put it aside and never think about it again.

Terrible dialogue, terrible plot, terrible production value, one of the best bad movies I've seen in a while. 3 stars for the laughs. Favorite quote: "It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase robotic love."