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Note: This review contains a lot of spoilers.

This is a movie that deserves to be spoiled, so satisfied it appears to be with its clever twist ending. If you actually want to waste your time finding out for yourself, don't read this review. For everyone else: I sat through it so you don't have to, and I intend to ruin it and give you a couple of extra hours on your life.

The horror genre is pretty much dead these days and it rather pisses me off. Worse, I'm so hungry for even one that's the equal of the great post-Romero horror of the 70s I'll rent something like this out of desperation, but I was very sorry I had.

This is the plot, twist ending included. I don't feel bad spoiling it because, frankly, a twist ending-and for that matter, a plot- where both yourself and the person watching with you simultaneously see coming at every point about ten minutes or more in advance, is hardly a twist at all. Whether you decide to watch it or not, either way don't tell me I didn't warn ya.

A young, kind of weird-looking and painfully earnest man calling himself Fenton comes to an FBI agent(who as it turns out became an agent because someone, never caught, killed his mother)'s office to tell him that his younger brother is the "God's Hand" killer, apparently having murdered a very large amount of people for a long time. This began, he tells the agent, when his widowed mechanic-and apparently perfectly nice, the one time you see him before his "vision"-father believed he'd received a vision from God telling him to go about destroying demons who are in human guise with an axe called "Otis", and to have his two young sons help him. Fenton is, to say the least, skeptical, while Todd Flanders-I'm sorry, I mean Adam-on the other hand completely believes his dad.

Soon, as the father is working under a car, a badly CGIed angel appears underneath and sends a burst of flame from a sword at his head. Now most mechanics would recognize angels with flaming swords as severe hazards underneath a gas tank. But Dad here simply comes out from under and happily writes a list of names of demons who look like people he should kill(Adam tries to be helpful and provides a list of his own, which starts with a school bully he dislikes. His father dismisses his list and gives him a lecture on how it's wrong to kill people), and begins his mission with some woman he's never seen before. He wears gloves till just before he kills them. When he takes them off and touches them, he claims he can see their

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