kai ringler Larry Drake is one of the best creepy killer's ever,, aka the Dentist,, well you got Paulina Porizkova running around the movie,, that's always nice,, Juergen Pruchnow investigating,, what's not to like.. I like everything that this movie had to offer, I think a lot of people were expecting like cinema art or something,, all I wanted is what exactly the movie itself present,, shock and awe,, blood, guts,, and a killer chasing around a pretty girl..i was also pleased with the plot line of the film, the location shooting, and the setting. Larry drake just plays the creepiest of killer's something about him that makes him the perfect monster or serial killer,, I hope he doesn't get typecast in that role but if he does,, we know that we will have an entertaining bloody killer on our hands for years to come no matter what he does.

bob_meg I have to disqualify this review immediately because I didn't see this whole film. Just the first 40 minutes, and wow is it dreck.Very rarely are the two-line summaries on the DirecTV guide accurate, but in this case it is. Shrink trapped in mental asylum on the verge of being shut down with insane, indestructible killer with apparent super-human strength. Killer makes Michael Myers look absolutely verbose and interesting in comparison.That's it. Wow.And Judd Nelson's in this crap...and I thought Anthony Michael-Hall's career was in the toilet.

sth_Weird what can I say? If it wasn't for Judd Nelson I wouldn't even have finished watching this movie. But he's just as brilliant in his role as always. It's not that I'm not used to him being the only positive thing about a movie, he's done a lot of poor ones. But this one beats them all, even though I think the story itself wasn't that bad. It was just poorly done. There's a big psycho in a closed hospital for retarded people managing to escape his cell, and kills everybody who dares trying to stop him from leaving, and he's intelligent enough to stop help from the outside getting in. So the only two people left are a female psychologist and the janitor, who is retarded himself. At the beginning they are trying to hunt the psycho down, but soon they are the ones who are hunted by him. Unfortunately, the hunt takes place in slow motion. It does start to get scary sometimes, but you get bored because it takes so long until something happens (if something happens). Appearantly they went out of ideas for more scary things to happen. In the end Quitz (the janitor) dies saving the psychologist, because he swallows the key the psycho is after, which of course he gets back (urgh...but you don't see how he does that), so there's not even a real happy ending. The whole movie is too dark (and I don't mean the atmosphere, the pictures are dark, sometimes you have to concentrate to see what's happening), and even though I never expect thrillers to be very realistic, this one is laughable. Judd Nelson once again manages to create a wonderful, believable character on screen, the other actors do their job too, but they couldn't stop me giving the movie a 3/10 (just for their effort, because the movie itself would get 1/10, and only because there's no 0!)

ProofUndeniable The lead actress in this movie, Paulina Porizkova, is fairly decent in this role. Having never seen her in anything else, I wasn't sure what to expect. She has her moments of overacting, but the main problem was some of the dialogue she was given. Larry Drake was scary enough as the killer and is considerably larger than I remember him being. Judd Nelson was really the standout for me in this movie. While not his finest work, he was believable enough in this role and seemed to be the only character that didn't make the typical horror movie asinine decisions. There is no real blood and gore in this movie, so it'll suffice for anyone who doesn't mind a little bad dialogue and plot holes, but wants to see a mildly scary film.