Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a new treatment which allows her mind to enter the mind of her patients.
Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an FBI agent comes to ask for help.
They had just tracked down Carl Stargher, whose fetish is to abduct women and place them in a secret area where they are kept until they are slowly drowned.
The killer has fallen into an irreversible coma which means he cannot confess where he has taken his latest victim.
Now Catherine must race against time to explore the twisted mind of the killer, but Stargher's damaged personality poses dangers...
Even though the film has some screaming plot-holes, one cannot deny that the film works on imagery alone. Once we enter the mind of the killer, the film really takes a turn for the better, and becomes very unnerving.
Singh knows how to use colours to a psychedelic effect, and the use of shadow and light would make Caligari envious.
Lopez is okay in her role, but beauty outweighs her performance as she whispers all her lines for no reason. Vaughn is good, but the film belongs to D'onofrio, he is fantastic as the killer and really makes the whole thing work.
The film loses it's pace a little at the end, but it would have been really hard to live up to the second act.
well worth seeing, even if you don't like the serial killer sub-genre, it's beautiful to look at.
Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an FBI agent comes to ask for help.
They had just tracked down Carl Stargher, whose fetish is to abduct women and place them in a secret area where they are kept until they are slowly drowned.
The killer has fallen into an irreversible coma which means he cannot confess where he has taken his latest victim.
Now Catherine must race against time to explore the twisted mind of the killer, but Stargher's damaged personality poses dangers...
Even though the film has some screaming plot-holes, one cannot deny that the film works on imagery alone. Once we enter the mind of the killer, the film really takes a turn for the better, and becomes very unnerving.
Singh knows how to use colours to a psychedelic effect, and the use of shadow and light would make Caligari envious.
Lopez is okay in her role, but beauty outweighs her performance as she whispers all her lines for no reason. Vaughn is good, but the film belongs to D'onofrio, he is fantastic as the killer and really makes the whole thing work.
The film loses it's pace a little at the end, but it would have been really hard to live up to the second act.
well worth seeing, even if you don't like the serial killer sub-genre, it's beautiful to look at.