Average Rating: 2.9/10
Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 12
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Release Date: Feb 10, 2009 Wide
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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
Unrated, 1 hr. 23 min.
Drama, Horror, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Feb 10, 2009 Wide
Feb 10, 2009
Starz Entertainment
All Critics (13) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (12) | DVD (2)
'Shrooms' director Paddy Breathnach still hasn't the foggiest idea of how to make a horror.
A derivative and titter-inducingly weak slasher movie.
A very ordinary, conventional, by-the-numbers creepfest without any dark spark.
Beep, beep, wooooooo...: this moronic medical horror's so awful, you'll be willing yourself to flatline.
This is a by-the-numbers slasher dressed up as a thriller, with Holby City-level acting.
It isn't scary enough or funny enough to be worth your time.
Red Mist is a lazy, incoherent shocker with nothing to recommend it.
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.
You've seen this all before, and you've seen it done better.
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.
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.
Routine surgery.
inevitably derivative (and the faux-American accents from the mostly Irish cast grate), but it makes for a heady enough cocktail.
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
August 2, 2009Super Reviewer
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.
April 18, 2010
Super Reviewer
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