The title character (Mike Vogel) keeps dying, over and over, with Christina Cole popping up each time, but as a different person each time. Creatures are trying to kill him, but why? And just who or what are they? A latex-wearing Jaime Murray plays a character somewhere in between vamp, beeyatch, temptress, and succubus.
This Dario Piana (not to be confused with giallo godfather Dario Argento, nor any member of his family) supernatural horror flick has an intriguing premise, and an impressive look, but not much else.
Cole is always a welcome sight and ‘Dexter” ‘bunny boiler’ Murray could well be a modern Barbara Steele, but it’s rather dull outside of that. Films about bad dreams or scenarios that mess with your head aren’t easy to do well (The ‘Elm Street” series are the best examples), and this film (which also borrows from ‘The Matrix’, ‘Dark City’, ‘Final Destination’, and ‘The Game’, whilst also having a Clive Barker-lite vibe to it) certainly doesn’t do it well. A horror version of ‘Dark City’ if directed by Barker and written by Stephen King is another way of describing it). The late, great FX wiz Stan Winston produced this clunker…Why?
OVERALL SUMMARY
Even if this were a ‘Masters of Horror’ episode, it would still disappoint. And yet the ‘Groundhog Day’-on-acid central concept, whilst lacking in originality, still had promise. It might’ve been fun. It is not.
