La Comunidad starts with a great premise and an interesting sense of mystery. We are much more quickly introduced to the mystery side of the story than in Rosemary's Baby for instance, and maybe that is why the whole backstory has to be made clear pretty soon and then we're done with the mystery thing.
Switching gears we find ourselves in a gross comedic mode that simply cannot follow up from the mystery expectations, and quite frankly this "comunidad" is not the scary gang/cult you might have feared in the first place so this is a gigantic mistake to jump from creepy to laughable stock. To me this is proof enough that Alex de la Iglesia is just a messy director, certainly full of energy, but certainly too full of himself to challenge his projects sufficiently and earn his way out of the B-movie curiosity stage.
Switching gears we find ourselves in a gross comedic mode that simply cannot follow up from the mystery expectations, and quite frankly this "comunidad" is not the scary gang/cult you might have feared in the first place so this is a gigantic mistake to jump from creepy to laughable stock. To me this is proof enough that Alex de la Iglesia is just a messy director, certainly full of energy, but certainly too full of himself to challenge his projects sufficiently and earn his way out of the B-movie curiosity stage.