Kevin Smith's horror-comedy Tusk must be the result of throwing Scary Movie, The Human Centipede, and Moby-Dick all in a blender with a sprinkling of Canada jokes. It's SO GODDAMN BIZARRE. A douchey podcast host named Wallace (an impressively hateable Justin Long) travels to a cold, wild corner of Manitoba to interview an eccentric former adventurer (Michael Parks). Shockingly, said adventurer turns out not to be what he seems—in fact, he's a nut job with a sinister plan involving walruses and surgery. While Wallace is held hostage, his podcast cohost (grown-up Haley Joel Osment) and girlfriend scramble to find and save him.

Some supporting characters feel a little bit like underdeveloped SNL gags, but Harley Morenstein as a Canadian border guard is pretty magnificent. He delivers lines like "Sadness was made by the USA" with his particular brand of utterly dry absurdity, making me wish he got more than five minutes onscreen. In fact, Tusk is an eminently quotable movie, with other gems including a dramatically delivered "Walruses. Never. Cry."

There are a few bits that are actually kind of horrifying, but all the humor inoculates against their effects, making Tusk much more comedy than horror. Weirdly, it mostly works, aside from a few jarring tonal shifts. If you see it, which I recommend you do, be prepared for serious strangeness.

This review has been updated since its original publication.