Like,people,come on. How this Gem has only 5.4 Imdb and such low Metascore. I've never laugh so many times in like two years watching comedy. Yeah, I get it look like absurd and parodyt of movie but that what it is. It was really interesting to watch, it had so many plot twists, main character did amazing work. The best comedy of this year, hands down.

You know, it'd be one thing to deride this attempt at making a Fargo-esque crime film that utterly wastes the talents of some really good actors, including Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Awkwafina, Wanda Sykes, Juliette Lewis, Matthew Modine and Ellen Barkin.

Tate Taylor has also made better films, like The Help, Ma and Girl On a Train.

But this really doesn't go anywhere when it starts with its premise of Janey's character being left behind by life and going for the lure of being on television. It feels done before and done better. It says absolutely nothing new.

The real reason for my vitriol is that this is an American-International Pictures movie.

That's right. AIP. The logo that makes my heart sing every time I see it.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer relaunched the studio as a label for films they will acquire for digital and limited theatrical releases without ever understanding that AIP is the studio that didn't bring dreck like this to viewers. Instead, it was the studio that gave us the ARKOFF formula - Action (exciting, entertaining drama),Revolution (novel or controversial themes and ideas),Killing (a modicum of violence),Oratory (notable dialogue and speeches),Fantasy (acted-out fantasies common to the audience) and Fornication (sex appeal for young adults).

AIP gifted us with It Conquered the World; I Was a Teenage Werewolf; Black Sunday; Black Sabbath*; The Masque of the Red Death; Frankenstein Conquers the World; Planet of the Vampires; The Trip; Witchfinder General; The Honeymoon Killers; Venus In Furs; The Vampire Lovers; the Count Yorga, Blacula and Dr. Phibes movies; A Lizard in a Woman's Skin; Frogs; Unholy Rollers; Hell Up In Harlem; Sugar Hill; Cooley High; What Have You Done to Solange?; The Town That Dreaded Sundown; The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane; Chatterbox; Andy Sidars' Seven and literally hundreds more. I could go on and on, but AIP used to mean something.

It still means something.

This movie means less than nothing.

*One could argue that they also took away a lot of what made this movie great and Bava's genius allowed it to succeed even beyond their tampering.

Sue Buttons (Allison Janney ) has low self-esteem issues and listens to affirmation tapes. Her husband Karl (Matthew Modine ) becomes the focal point when he goes missing. He dies in a motel home when Sue catches him with another woman (Bridget Everett). Rather than do the right thing, she disposes of the body and reports him missing for media attention. As the attention wanes, Sue comes up with a new detail to keep the story alive. Unfortunately Karl was laundering money that has now gone missing. Other people are looking for him. And they are not nice.

The film had the right about of twists and turns. Characters played by Wanda Sykes and Awkwafina made this a very fun film.

Guide: F-word. Brief sex and nudity (Bridget Everett )