Awful movie everything about this movie from start to finish is horrendous, ignore the paid for 10 star reviews, this is actually my fifth review of the movie I think, IMDB keeps removing it I don't know why when I'm just giving my opinion of the movie i have also seen other reviews come and go that have given negative reviews so I'm assuming the marketing team behind the movie are also paying of IMDB the remove the negative reviews. No doubt this one will disappear after a few days anyone who reads it come back and see for yourself after a couple of days. Anyway give the movie a miss it has nothing going for it, when I first watched it hadn't been out long and had a rating of over 9 because of the fake reviews and well I was massively misled. The only good thing about the movie is the cool opening credits other then that is a massive pile of garbage.

Lena Simon (Brittany Lucio) is dealing with her car breaking down on the way to work when she's surprised by motivational speaker Scotty Sharpe (Newton Mayenge), who offers to take her to work instead of waiting for a tow truck. His offer of dinner turns out to be the perfect relationship until she starts to suspect him of cheating on her. Her friend Toni (Donna Glytch) suggests that she work with MaMa Ti'Mun (Tangie Ambrose) to do a voodoo spell on him, which will keep her in love with him once he eats special herbs inside a bowl of spaghetti. It makes him even more loving but also turns him into a killing machine.

Also: He may be a criminal and not just a motivational speaker. She also has a brother named Meatball (Markice Moore) who is on house arrest.

Director Adam Gierasch has an interesting background. He was one of the writers of movies like the Tobe Hooper remake of Toolbox Murders as well as his movie Mortuary. He also was one of the writers of Argento's Mother of Tears and the remake of Night of the Demons, which he directed along with Autopsy, Fertile Ground, House by the Lake and the "Trick" part of Tales of Halloween. He's working from a script by Dempsey Gibson, Markice Moore and Jason Rainwater.

His director's statement really goes for it: "I was drawn to the unique story of Spaghetti as I was immediately reminded of Brian DePalma movies that I love, and I also loved the idea of a predominantly African-American cast. Lena is haunted by surrealistic nightmares like Carrie is, and then finds out that the man that she's falling in love with is anything but normal. He has a terrifying set of skills that he can't even remember, which turn him into a cold-blooded killer. In my approach I utilized the neon color of De Palma's Body Double and the unmotivated light of Dario Argento's Suspiria, while adding in as much blood as I could to grind it all together and make the perfect bloody, scary, funny stew. For my score I tapped Slasher Dave, the creative force behind the band Acid Witch, to embark on composing for the film. His unique approach pulls from The Exorcist (especially "Tubular Bells") and John Carpenter's Halloween. To make the voodoo elements work I had him put in a lot of tribal drums. Finally, we used a real goat for the voodoo ceremony (although of course it left set unharmed.) It was some of the most fun directing I've had in a long time, and probably the nicest, coolest cast I've ever worked with."

I'm a big Acid Witch fan, so I was glad that I read that. It makes sense why the opening - filled with AI generated animated art of women and spaghetti - feels so sinister.

The IMDB reviews for this movie are interesting. Either they're ten out of ten reviews that claim that it's "A Savory Fusion of Narrative Brilliance and Visual Delight" or a one out of ten that says, "The uncanny resemblance to Indian cinema becomes evident, particularly in the implausible death scenes."

People will be stabbed in the face, a woman's face will explode and yes, that goat shows up. I will say that this movie takes itself seriously - despite being about a woman putting her period blood into a pasta dish for her cheating man - and it looks way better than any other modern horror movie on Tubi, complete with cool gel lighting and some really great gore. It goes hard when it doesn't have to and for that, you should respect it.

I thought I was about to find another Black Giallo movie and I did, but was also amazed to find out that it was made by someone who actually worked with Argento. You can still be surprised.