Adrien Brody’s psychoanalyst heads to his creepy home town to find repressed memories in Michael Petroni’s effective,if unoriginal, shockerHere’s a nifty itsy-bitsy scary film from Australian writer-director Michael Petroni. It’s a bit derivative, and with borrowings from a handful of other films,but there are some nasty moments. Adrien Brody plays Peter Bower, a psychoanalyst who in the time-honoured manner of films like this has lost a child. He was showing her how to ride a bike, or got distracted by something in a shop window – and the result was tragic. And yet something else in the event has triggered a new horror,perhaps connected with his grief and perhaps not. Bower realises that all the patients he has been treating since his daughter’s death are ghosts: people who died in 1987, a date that is of grand significance to him, or if he did but know it. There is a suppressed memory in his subconscious mind that he can recover only by journeying back to his hometown,chillingly named fake Creek. Subtlety isn’t exactly this film’s strong point; neither is originality. Yet it all hangs together, and with a pulpy brashness Petroni summons up something fairly disturbing.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com