Freakdog (Red Mist) (2008)

8% of critics liked it
(13 reviews)
20% of users liked it
(533 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

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Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 23 min.
Directed By: Paddy Breathnach
Genres: Drama, Horror, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy

In Theaters: Feb 10, 2009 Wide
On DVD: Feb 10, 2009
Studio: Starz Entertainment

Critic Reviews

Nigel Floyd, Time Out
'Shrooms' director Paddy Breathnach still hasn't the foggiest idea of how to make a horror.
Kevin Maher, Times [UK]
A derivative and titter-inducingly weak slasher movie.
Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]
A very ordinary, conventional, by-the-numbers creepfest without any dark spark.
Jamie Russell, Total Film
Beep, beep, wooooooo...: this moronic medical horror's so awful, you'll be willing yourself to flatline.
, Sun Online
This is a by-the-numbers slasher dressed up as a thriller, with Holby City-level acting.
Robert Hanks, Independent
It isn't scary enough or funny enough to be worth your time.
Allan Hunter, Daily Express
Red Mist is a lazy, incoherent shocker with nothing to recommend it.
Derek Malcolm, This is London
The plot is total rubbish, and no amount of slick film-making can make you believe it is worth all the blood and gore we have to sit through.
Robbie Collin, News of the World
You've seen this all before, and you've seen it done better.
, Sunday Mail [UK]
Slasher movies tend to be all about the fiend doing the carving and cutting in a search for revenge. And that's pretty much the core of Red Mist.
Anton Bitel, Film4
Paddy Breathnach's second horror outing plays much like his first, mixing genres and influences into a heady cocktail - although this time around the flavours may no longer satisfy the jaded palate.
Staci Layne Wilson, Horror.com
Routine surgery.
Anton Bitel, Little White Lies
inevitably derivative (and the faux-American accents from the mostly Irish cast grate), but it makes for a heady enough cocktail.

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Dean !

This could have been so much better. Nice idea but on a tight budget, and thin plot lines it doesn't live up to potential. I thought Arielle Kebbel being in this might be a good sign, but it's not up to the usual quality of films she is in. I also have to add I really… More
This could have been so much better. Nice idea but on a tight budget, and thin plot lines it doesn't live up to potential. I thought Arielle Kebbel being in this might be a good sign, but it's not up to the usual quality of films she is in. I also have to add I really don't understand why they try to Americanise this film? It was obvious to me this was made in the UK, Northern Ireland, so why not set it there? Why try to make out it's a small town in America? Only for those who don't mind low budget horrors.
Steve K

Eh, nothing new. Usual back of posing, vapid medical students are taken care of one by one through "strange" circumstances. The type of film where you are rooting for the bad guy since no one else is likable. Some nice stylistic flourishes help elevate things.
Curtis L

Eh. Whatever.
Brian D

Boring and slow and not much of a idea.Seen it all before and better.Keep clear of this one.Watch Jason goes to hell a much better and fun ride to watch..
Rose G

This medical thriller which also goes by the title Freakdog tells the story of a group of medical students who plays a prank on a somewhat emotionally-troubled man (Kenneth) by inviting him to a bar and getting him drunk. Not knowing that (Kenneth) was epileptic, the combination of… More
This medical thriller which also goes by the title Freakdog tells the story of a group of medical students who plays a prank on a somewhat emotionally-troubled man (Kenneth) by inviting him to a bar and getting him drunk. Not knowing that (Kenneth) was epileptic, the combination of alcohol and drug sends him to a coma. Desperate not to get themselves involved in the crime, the group leaves Kenneth on the road until someone brought him to the hospital for treatment. Kate, guilty of what they have done, thought that she could help Kenneth's condition by injecting him with a "wonder-drug". Little does she know that the said drug only made matters worse, as her friends were mysteriously murdered one at a time. Really interesting plot. Never expected that the paranormal and medical science has a connection (if anything in this movie was true). I liked the gore and the acting too. Worth checking out.