Director: BT Meza
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Mad Doctor
Plot:
Unable to remember her past, a woman struggling with memory loss and a fractured sense of reality tries to spend time with her husband and daughter to get herself back to normal, but the more she learns about her past, the more she comes to understand a dark secret kept from her.
Review:
This was an enjoyable enough genre effort. Among the brighter features here is the way this sets up the intriguing scenario about the affliction she suffers from that sets everything in motion. Following up from the fateful crash and the desire to get everything running normally again despite the series of interruptions to her process, including the fervent denial of everything he tells her, the constant reassurance that everything will be okay, and the repeated desire to help it all come together, provides the film with a strong central core to follow through on. With the various interactions and confrontations here making it seem like there’s something wrong with her that the experience is trying to fix, the series of reveals here involving the actual truth about what’s going on at the farmhouse involving DNA memory replication, personality cloning, and other forms of manipulation being conducted in the name of advanced genetic research and experimentation bring this into a wild and over-the-top setup far removed from what the initial setup of the film is brought up to be which makes this quite a fun time.
That said, there are some problems here in the way everything comes together that serve as some big letdowns. The main drawback on display is the series of shortcuts done here to try to move the story along, which are quite hard to understand how they’d be aware of the situation. The high-stakes knowledge of the material used to create the artificial beings and the purpose behind the experimentation was only just discovered and barely had any time to register what’s going on, and this one decides to go for the type of scenario where the forced knowledge of the situation makes it thematically make sense but realistically has little explanation for why they’d be able to come up with that nor have the wherewithal to use it properly. It’s not nearly a crippling issue with this one or something that affects it, much like the plotline once again having to deal with the loss of family and grief over what happened, which offers quite a lot of sympathy for the situation, only for the repeated use of the setup to keep this one from
Overview: ****/5
A generally enjoyable and likable genre effort, there’s quite a lot to like here and only a few minor drawbacks that don’t impact this one all that much anyway. Those with an interest in the subject matter, who are curious about it, or who are fans of the creative crew will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed caution.
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