Freakdog (Red Mist) (2008)
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8% of critics liked it
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21% of users liked it
(641 ratings)
Shrooms director Paddy Breathnach returns to terrify horror hounds with this supernatural shocker about a dangerous loner who falls into a deep coma, and travels out of body to seek revenge against his tormentors. Kenneth Chisholm is a depraved hospital janitor with a penchant for snapping… More Shrooms director Paddy Breathnach returns to terrify horror hounds with this supernatural shocker about a dangerous loner who falls into a deep coma, and travels out of body to seek revenge against his tormentors. Kenneth Chisholm is a depraved hospital janitor with a penchant for snapping voyeuristic cell phone pictures. One night, while out at a local bar, a group of trainee medical students work up the courage to confront the sleazy shutterbug. Devastated, Kenneth suffers from an epileptic fit and falls into a deep coma. Later, when remorseful trainee Catherine Thomas attempts to revive Kenneth by administering an experimental drug cocktail designed especially for coma patients, she inadvertently sets off a horrifying series of events that will put the lives of both herself and her fellow students in grave danger. As a result, Kenneth is jolted into an out of body state that allows him to enter the bodies of his enemies and manipulate them into doing his bloody bidding. But who can you turn to for help when the person you always counted on could be possessed by a madman? When anyone can be the killer, no one can be trusted. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Paddy Breathnach
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
- In Theaters
- Feb 10, 2009 Wide
- Studio
- Starz Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Nigel Floyd, Time Out
'Shrooms' director Paddy Breathnach still hasn't the foggiest idea of how to make a horror.
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Kevin Maher, Times [UK]
A derivative and titter-inducingly weak slasher movie.
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Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]
A very ordinary, conventional, by-the-numbers creepfest without any dark spark.
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Jamie Russell, Total Film
Beep, beep, wooooooo...: this moronic medical horror's so awful, you'll be willing yourself to flatline.
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, Sun Online
This is a by-the-numbers slasher dressed up as a thriller, with Holby City-level acting.
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Cast
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Arielle Kebbel
as Catherine Thomas
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Sarah Carter
as Kim
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Martin Compston
as Sean Goodrich
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Stephen Dillane
as Dr. Harris
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Andrew Lee Potts
as Kenneth Chisholm
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MyAnna Buring
as Shelby Kinter

