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Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Carter, Martin Compston, Stephen Dillane, Andrew Lee Potts ... see more see more... , MyAnna Buring

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 hi... read more read more...s 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 fit and falls into a deep coma. Later, when remorseful trainee Catherine Thomas attempts to revive Kenneth by administering an experimental drug cocktail designed especially for coma patients, she inadvertently sets off a horrifying series of events that will put the lives of both herself and her fellow students in grave danger. As a result, Kenneth is jolted into an out of body state that allows him to enter the bodies of his enemies and manipulate them into doing his bloody bidding. But who can you turn to for help when the person you always counted on could be possessed by a madman? When anyone can be the killer, no one can be trusted. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 23 min.

Directed by: Paddy Breathnach

Release Date: February 10, 2009

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  • Deano78
    June 25, 2010
    Deano78
    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 under... read morestand why they try to Americanise this film? It was obvious to me this was made in the UK, Northern Ireland, so why not set it there? Why try to make out it's a small town in America? Only for those who don't mind low budget horrors.
  • Beefy
    April 18, 2010
    Beefy
    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.
  • puffchunk
    October 26, 2009
    puffchunk
    Eh. Whatever.
  • briandeguelle
    June 3, 2009
    briandeguelle
    Boring and slow and not much of a idea.Seen it all before and better.Keep clear of this one.Watch Jason goes to hell a much better and fun ride to watch..
  • roseypie
    August 17, 2009
    roseypie
    This medical thriller which also goes by the title Freakdog tells the story of a group of medical students who plays a prank on a somewhat emotionally-troubled man (Kenneth) by inviting him to a bar and getting him drunk. Not knowing that (Kenneth) was epileptic, the combination ... read moreof alcohol and drug sends him to a coma. Desperate not to get themselves involved in the crime, the group leaves Kenneth on the road until someone brought him to the hospital for treatment. Kate, guilty of what they have done, thought that she could help Kenneth's condition by injecting him with a "wonder-drug". Little does she know that the said drug only made matters worse, as her friends were mysteriously murdered one at a time.

    Really interesting plot. Never expected that the paranormal and medical science has a connection (if anything in this movie was true). I liked the gore and the acting too. Worth checking out.
  • juliantoepfer
    December 31, 2011
    juliantoepfer
    Certainly was not expecting much going in, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Sort of 'Carrie' meets 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' meets 'Anatomy', but taken a bit more seriously.

    Plenty of flaws include some questionable acting, issues with pacing, a mediocre s... read morecript and a somewhat rehashed plot line, but it manages to stay a step ahead of your standard B-list direct to DVD horror film. Alot of its success lies in its lighting and cinematography. It creates a real mood of darkness and claustrophobia, and never quite lets the viewer get comfortable.

    As I said, the plot isn't terribly original, but it does put an interesting spin on the haunting/telekinetic angle. The score is a plus, as its subtle and unconventional, but does not overpower. It does spiral a bit out of control towards the end, as the first half of the film slowly builds, and then rushes into a frenzied and somewhat chaotic 3rd act.

    Definitely nothing spectacular, but it does manage a few scares/jumps, and creates a general feeling of unease. I don't get all these mega-negitave reviews. Sure it isn't fantastic, but considering where horror films are today, this is certainly an above average low-budget horror flick.
  • nachtlichschrecken
    November 22, 2009
    nachtlichschrecken
    Interesting theory, but this would never happen. The idea of an astral body possessing someone else and causing them to kill others, is ridiculous, but still interesting.
    Is "Freakdog" supposed to just keep killing every and anyone or does he stop with the last two girls?
  • LittleMissBloodAndGuts
    July 31, 2009
    LittleMissBloodAndGuts
    Oh brother. 17 year old party bimbo girls with M.D.'s. It took an hour to get past the jocko-homo-asshole high school clique style posturing to the more interesting part of the premise. One for the teenage, Paris Hilton idolizing, Survivor series viewing crowd. Where's Ted Bund... read morey when you need him? The guy in the coma simply wasn't working quickly enough. If you identified with the med students, please drink a bottle of Jaggermeister drop some Ecstasy, and go play in traffic.
  • Hamee
    July 29, 2009
    Hamee
    This movie was predictable and cliche. Not bad if you are all about the gore factor, but not really strong on plot. Rich kids hurt a "lesser" kid, dump his body, he ends up in a coma, girl feels bad and tries to help, he possesses people and kills the kids responsible, conscience... read more girl ends up in a mental facility "possessed" by the dead kid that she helped but into a coma.
  • MovieBuff27
    June 13, 2009
    MovieBuff27
    Red Mist (Freakdog) has to be one of the best movies to come out of 09 so far. Ok so the plot is based around this group of medical students who go out to party one night, and while partying decide to humiliate a loser by making him do a Freakdog. After he does it he collapses an... read mored the students rather than risk losing future employment or their current scholarships decide to just drop him off outside of the hospital. The next morning they find he's in a coma and soon guilt takes over one and she injects him with an experimental drug that is supposed to bring coma patients back. Well it brings him back, just not in the way that she had imagined. Soon he is taking form of all of her friends and picking them off one by one can she stop him before he gets his revenge on them all? I know it may sound a bit done, but this movie was all original. The way that the plot played out was perfect, and a nice twist from the stereotypical possession movies that we've been seeing a lot of lately. Starting with the acting, you get great performances from the entire lead cast. And a reasonably good performance from Sarah Carter who made a nice comeback after that disaster of a performance from Skin Walkers. Gore, you get a ton of the red stuff in this one, arm and wrist cutting, someone beaten to death, guts, someone being brutally run over by a car, and a really cool chemical swallowing seen. Soundtrack, a decent score. Not anything memorable, but nothing to awful. Two problems with this one, problem number one the poster, can we say generic? Problem number two the name change at last minute. Ok I don't know about a lot of you, but I have been waiting to see this one for quite a while and for the longest time the name was Freakdog. Then out of no where they change it to Red Mist. I don't even know were they got the title, I think they just pulled it out of the sky because it has nothing to do with the movie. Bottom line even with a couple of marketing flaws, Red Mist (Freakdog) is still a great supernatural slasher film that delivers in most if not all aspects. I say if you haven't already go check this one out.

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Critic Reviews

Nigel Floyd
July 3, 2009
Nigel Floyd, Time Out

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

Kevin Maher
July 3, 2009
Kevin Maher, Times [UK]

A derivative and titter-inducingly weak slasher movie. Full Review

Peter Bradshaw
July 3, 2009
Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

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

Jamie Russell
July 3, 2009
Jamie Russell, Total Film

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

July 3, 2009
Sun Online

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

Robert Hanks
July 3, 2009
Robert Hanks, Independent

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

Allan Hunter
July 3, 2009
Allan Hunter, Daily Express

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

Derek Malcolm
July 3, 2009
Derek Malcolm, This is London

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. Full Review

Robbie Collin
July 3, 2009
Robbie Collin, News of the World

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

July 3, 2009
Sunday Mail [UK]

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. Full Review

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