Psychosis
(2009/E1 DVD)
Picture: C Sound: C+ Extras: D Film: D
If you
want to see the epitome of everything that is wrong with the thriller genre,
just catch Reg Traviss’ Psychosis (2009)
about another novelist with emotional issues (Charisma Carpenter, actually once
considered for the Wonder Woman role; glad that did not happen!) named Susan
who does what all people do when they are not well… move to a giant isolated
house in the middle of nowhere in case a serial killer is on the loose and killing
people!
She is
married, but that is not helping and we actually see the killer in action in
the first scenes (in case we might forget he’d show up) killing a group of
young adults (who obviously never watch movies) going on a camping trip. Wow is this bad and it just gets worse and
worse, dumbed and dumber. Nothing works,
including ill-timed make-up effects (very sloppy) and any similarity to real
thrillers is purely coincidental.
The anamorphically
enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is soft beyond belief, badly shot on video (is this
HD?) and is sloppy throughout. The Dolby
Digital 5.1 mix is barley better with bad location recording and sound mixing
throughout. Extras include Deleted
Scenes that would not have helped and show what a misguided production this
really was, a Making Of featurette and lame, tired feature length audio
commentary to put you to sleep by the director, Producer Patrick Fischer and
player Ricci Barnett.
- Nicholas Sheffo
