A slasher movie about some young people who are lured into a house of horror filled with deadly booby-traps, designed by an evil circus-manager with some obscure grudge, assisted by a bunch of horror-clowns. Well, when putting it like this, it doesn't sound like anything worth of winning an Oscar and that is putting it mildly. But when you have lowered your expectations accordingly, you're in for some pleasant surprises. In between a rather incomprehensible introductory sequence and an even more incomprehensible closing sequence (where a major story-twist is revealed with a way too elaborate explanation for my simple brain) there is actually a lot to enjoy, especially when you are into gore-horror. Because the makers of this one did not hold back, no sir, they really go all the way and for the middle hour of the movie they throw in tons of blood, slime, body-parts, jump-scares and a continuously amounting body-count, while exposing the youngsters, who have to find their way out of the maze, to all kinds of (fairly original) horrifying contraptions, up until the proverbial Final Girl can at last escape into the day-light. I'm no professional, but to me it seemed that most of the gore was not CGI but handcrafted, so compliments to the special effects designers!
In short: ignore the incoherent story, the amateurish acting of the youngsters and the exaggerated over-acting of the circus-director, and just enjoy (as far as it's your cup of tea) the inventive gore-fest.
In short: ignore the incoherent story, the amateurish acting of the youngsters and the exaggerated over-acting of the circus-director, and just enjoy (as far as it's your cup of tea) the inventive gore-fest.