The Void is a viscera splattered throwback to 80's VHS horror with a rocking marketing campaign. The filmmakers wear unapologetic love for Carpenter, Barker, Fulci and Lovecraft on gore stained sleeves creating a relentless siege of increasingly horrific sights. Grisly, gruesome and quite the showcase of practical horror effects, there are truly disturbing visions on display with ambitious ideas driving them. The actors aren't always great but certainly committed, even as the low budget shows through. The filmmakers are skilled enough to work within their limitations and amazing practical effects, but as the movie trips down the rabbit hole of insanity it becomes simultaneously more ambitious and muddled. None of it really makes sense and degenerates into cosmic horror cliches and without the budget to realize some larger ambitions. What it does manage to accomplish it accomplishes effectively, and the payoff is not without impact and a nice bleakness befitting its inspiration. This is an intense ride and gorehounds or fans of weird cosmic horror should not pass this one up.