Without all the obscenities, the characters would have had absolutely nothing to say!

This is a short film about four guys who escape from Hell and go on a pointless killing rampage. Perhaps they are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse or perhaps they're just four jerks. And, by the end of the film I really didn't care.

Wow--what a pointless pile of bile! Over and over throughout this short film I almost turned it off but kept watching because I assumed there must be some clever payoff at the end. No such luck! Instead, the film seemed like the work of very dumb people making a film for other really dumb people. That's the only explanation I have, as the dialog was just terrible. Despite being a short film, I wonder if they used the F-word (I don't think IMDb will allow me to use it) more than in all of SCARFACE or GOODFELLAS--and these both were full-length films!! To me, when I hear one obscenity after another after another, it doesn't really offend me--it just makes me think that the writers weren't very good. It's like they said to themselves "Wow--writing intelligent dialog is too hard--let's just have them curse non-stop!". Violent and vile but most importantly it was dumb and silly--not a good combination for any film!

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