Director: Chad Ferrin
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Cosmic Horror
Plot:
Arriving at a new mental health institute, a young doctor looking into a patient’s case for a friend of his involves the bizarre manner the rest of the inmates are reacting to his presence forcing him to discover the strange secret that dwells within him the more he studies the case.
Review:
This was an intriguing if somewhat flawed overall effort. One of the finer features of this one comes from the intriguing setup that manages to offer a fantastic look into the type of psychosis displayed within here. The idea of trying to tackle the reasoning behind the type of unconventional displays of psychotic behavior that turns the inmates into raving lunatics who dismember and mutilate themselves to the point of madness that leaves them barely alive is a wholly intriguing way to get this one going. The series of experiments he attempts to look into everything which ultimately uncovers the truth about the situation involving being possessed by an otherworldly entity looking to birth more of its kind in followers helps to provide some understanding of what’s going on. As this sets about trying to offer up the kind of bizarre and tormenting imagery featuring the demon origins of the creatures deforming and manipulating those around him to carry out its plans.
This is accomplished rather nicely with a solid selection of confrontations that are impressively handled here. These series of encounters come together rather well with the grotesque, unnatural body parts featured here that showcase the attempts made by the demonic beings to exude their power and influence, focusing on the rabid imagery and concepts to work. From appendages turning into fang-lined monstrous beings, generating tentacled beings from their orifices, or seeing the bizarre means of outrageous behavior committed, everything here comes across with a rather fun series of encounters that feature a solid bit of action that gets increasingly more outlandish concepts involving the possessed followers. These are fantastic with the type of chaos presented here involving those possessed followers ripping others apart and offering up the kind of chaos expected from this storyline, making for a lot to like overall.
There are a few minor issues that hold it back. The main drawback here is the seeming lack of content behind the connection between the demon cult and what’s going on. It feels quite odd that the cult has arrived and started taking over others which just seems to occur with the idea of everything happening because it has to rather than being logically built up. How the dream therapist comes together to uncover what’s going on is incredibly flimsy and getting dragged into this story about demonic creatures looking to overtake the world comes off in a hokey manner without too much in the way of connecting everything so it gets explained logically. On top of that, there are some rather obvious low-budget limitations at times that show up here which are somewhat damaging in places and hold this one down overall.
Overview: ***.5/5
A generally fun and rather sleazy adaptation, there’s a lot to like here that manages to hold this one up over a few minor storyline elements that hold it back in the end. Those who are intrigued by this one, enjoy this kind of indie film in general, or are fans of the other films in the series will have a lot to like here while most others out there should heed caution.
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