NYC Horror Film Festival

I saw this movie at the NYC Horror Film Fest about a year and a half ago. It won Best Feature at the festival, and it was a well deserved honor in my humble opinion. It was one hell of an entertaining and unique film. I was at the festival because a friend's short film was also screening that night, and honestly I went in with low expectations of "How to Be..". I thought it would be filled with gratuitious violence and torture porn, as is the case with many indie horror films as of late. That couldn't have been further from the reality.

I'm amazed by the negative posts on this board. The movie is brilliant. I think the people who consistently knock indie films should just go watch a "shoot em up" cookie cutter Hollywood blockbuster, complete with excessive CGI, and save indies for the real fans who can appreciate it. If you can't enjoy this film, then you just don't "get" satire and dark comedy. The movie is full of it, and the audience was rolling with laughter throughout. The characters all display some fine acting chops. Matthew Gray Gubler is absolutely endearing as Mike's apprentice, and has some serious comedic talent.

I'm a staff writer for a major horror magazine in Europe, and I have absolutely zero affiliation with anyone in this film. As a horror writer and fan of dark comedies, I think this movie was the best horror film of 2008.