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Freakdog (Red Mist) (2008)

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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

Feb 10, 2009

Starz Entertainment

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'Shrooms' director Paddy Breathnach still hasn't the foggiest idea of how to make a horror.

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

A derivative and titter-inducingly weak slasher movie.

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK] | Comment
Times [UK]

A very ordinary, conventional, by-the-numbers creepfest without any dark spark.

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Beep, beep, wooooooo...: this moronic medical horror's so awful, you'll be willing yourself to flatline.

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Total Film

This is a by-the-numbers slasher dressed up as a thriller, with Holby City-level acting.

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Sun Online | Comment
Sun Online

It isn't scary enough or funny enough to be worth your time.

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Independent | Comment
Independent

Red Mist is a lazy, incoherent shocker with nothing to recommend it.

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Express | Comment
Daily Express

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.

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: This is London | Comment
This is London

You've seen this all before, and you've seen it done better.

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: News of the World | Comment
News of the World

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.

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Sunday Mail [UK] | Comment
Sunday Mail [UK]

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.

June 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

Routine surgery.

December 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Horror.com | Comment

inevitably derivative (and the faux-American accents from the mostly Irish cast grate), but it makes for a heady enough cocktail.

September 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Little White Lies | Comment
Little White Lies
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Audience Reviews for Freakdog (Red Mist)

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, 2009
Deano78

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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
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Steve K

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