Freakdog is set at Fort Haven County General Hospital where several trainee Doctor's decide to have a party, while there slightly retarded hospital janitor Kenneth Chisum (Andrew Lee Potts) turns up & when he is called names & thrown out he mentions the drugs that Sean (Martin Compston) stole from the hospital pharmacy that everyone has been getting high on. Worried Kenneth will tell he is invited to the party & is stuffed full of drugs & alcohol which causes him to have an epileptic seizure, while arguing whether to save Kenneth or not he suffers brain damage & goes into a deep coma. While Sean wants Kenneth to die Catherine (Arielle Kebbel) doesn't & the group reach the compromise of dumping Kenneth outside ER. In a deep coma Catherine feels guilty & tries to help Kenneth by injecting him with experimental drugs which raise his brain activity to the extent Kenneth can possess other people which he uses to extract his revenge on those who left for dead in a coma...
Much more commonly known under the title Red Mist this English production was directed by Paddy Breathnach & could be looked as a modern updating of the classic Australian film Patrick (1978) with it's main villain in a coma but there's a bit of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) here as well as a bunch of teens who try to cover a terrible accident up for their own personal selfish reasons are killed off one by one. I enjoyed Freakdog much more than I thought I would, at just over 80 odd minutes it's fairly short but I have to say that the pace is quite sedate with the script taking the time to build the story & character's & the time invested is worth it. I liked the idea of a comatose killer who can possess people & use them to kill, setting people up to take the blame & even possess those he wants to kill & have them commit suicide, the kills are good & the film is surprisingly engaging. However the cast of character's are a little thin, all the medical students are portrayed as selfish unlikable people which makes it hard to sympathise with them when they get killed, the one exception is Catherine who show's just enough guilt & turmoil for us to relate to her & the situation she was in. I suppose what it boils down to is that Freakdog is just another teen slasher but there's enough about it to lift it from the usual low budget dross out there, the story, character's & kills are all better than expected although the ending is a little ambiguous which may irritate some.
The film looks very slick, the super white & clean lines of the hospital location is a nice change from the usual dark & dank horror film settings. There are some good kills here, a woman has her head based in a car door, a man has acid pured down his throat, a woman mutilates herself by cutting herself with a shard of glass & there's a cool & satisfying kill in which a man has a kitchen knife stuck through his throat with blood gushing consequences. Although very clean & stylish looking there's not much tension here & the scares are minimal, I guess Freakdog is more of a horror thriller than an all out horror film.
With a supposed budget of about $3,000,000 this is set entirely in the US but was filmed entirely in Belfast in Northern Ireland. The acting is pretty good actually, the lead Arielle Kebbel is super hot & a decent actress too.
Freakdog is a much better film than I expected, the only thing that holds it back is a slowish pace at times & too many unlikable character's which means when the killing starts it's hard to really care. However it's stylish & the story, acting & kills are good. Better than average & better than many low budget horror films out there.
Much more commonly known under the title Red Mist this English production was directed by Paddy Breathnach & could be looked as a modern updating of the classic Australian film Patrick (1978) with it's main villain in a coma but there's a bit of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) here as well as a bunch of teens who try to cover a terrible accident up for their own personal selfish reasons are killed off one by one. I enjoyed Freakdog much more than I thought I would, at just over 80 odd minutes it's fairly short but I have to say that the pace is quite sedate with the script taking the time to build the story & character's & the time invested is worth it. I liked the idea of a comatose killer who can possess people & use them to kill, setting people up to take the blame & even possess those he wants to kill & have them commit suicide, the kills are good & the film is surprisingly engaging. However the cast of character's are a little thin, all the medical students are portrayed as selfish unlikable people which makes it hard to sympathise with them when they get killed, the one exception is Catherine who show's just enough guilt & turmoil for us to relate to her & the situation she was in. I suppose what it boils down to is that Freakdog is just another teen slasher but there's enough about it to lift it from the usual low budget dross out there, the story, character's & kills are all better than expected although the ending is a little ambiguous which may irritate some.
The film looks very slick, the super white & clean lines of the hospital location is a nice change from the usual dark & dank horror film settings. There are some good kills here, a woman has her head based in a car door, a man has acid pured down his throat, a woman mutilates herself by cutting herself with a shard of glass & there's a cool & satisfying kill in which a man has a kitchen knife stuck through his throat with blood gushing consequences. Although very clean & stylish looking there's not much tension here & the scares are minimal, I guess Freakdog is more of a horror thriller than an all out horror film.
With a supposed budget of about $3,000,000 this is set entirely in the US but was filmed entirely in Belfast in Northern Ireland. The acting is pretty good actually, the lead Arielle Kebbel is super hot & a decent actress too.
Freakdog is a much better film than I expected, the only thing that holds it back is a slowish pace at times & too many unlikable character's which means when the killing starts it's hard to really care. However it's stylish & the story, acting & kills are good. Better than average & better than many low budget horror films out there.