Reply With QuoteGothika with Halle Berry has similarities.
Please put me out of my misery, I have seen this film recently but the title and stars have gone from my memory.
It was probably made in the last ten years, it is American and the story concerns a Woman who is taken over by the spirit of a Child who was patient in a Mental hospital. I think that the Husband of the woman visits a rundown Hotel in another town and is brutally murdered. The woman is interred in the Hospital and tears down the wallpaper in the ward where the child was years before and finds messages on the wall written by the child. She escapes and goes to meet the child. Many thanks in advance for your help, I doubt that it will be long before an answer appears.
Gothika with Halle Berry has similarities.
Could be, but I can't remember Halle Berry in it ?Originally Posted by Mr Sloane
Sounds more like In Dreams (1999)? With Annette Bening.
Last edited by GRAEME; 03-07-11 at 06:58 PM.
"In Dreams", that the one !. Have now ordered it as well as "Gothika". Both films have Robert Downey Junior but "In Dreams" has the much under-rated Stephen Rea , one of my favourite actors way back to "I didn't know you cared". Many thanks to you both for your help, I knew you wouldn't let me down !
You're very welcome - but I have to say, Gothica stinks on ice!
I must admit I hated it.
Win some lose some, I paid 46p for "Gothika" so I can always use it as a drinks coaster !.
That much! They definitely saw you coming...
GOTHIKA is indeed utter, utter cack of the highest order. Other than the fact that the plot makes no sense and the whole thing looks like some dodgy late 90s industrial metal video shot on the Ferengi homeworld where it always rains, the title has NOTHING to do with the story whatsoever (only Italian giallo directors and Pete Walker are allowed to do that in my book), Berry's performance, if you can call it that, plumbs depths of hamminess not seen since the silent 20s, only with less style: her heavy breathing, head scratching, shrieking and sniffing almost singlehandedly destroying the credibility of beautiful women in the acting industry everywhere.
What an actor of the calibre of Bernard Hill was doing in this tripe is beyond me. File alongside THE FANTASIST, BEYOND BEDLAM, THE VIDEO DEAD, AEROBICIDE, ENTITY FORCE, RED CANYON, SECRETS OF THE PHANTOM CAVERNS, JEEPERS CREEPERS and anything by Stephen Sommers or M Knight Shamalamadingdong under the heading of "worst horror films ever made", a list which sadly increases with time. Come back Andrea Bianchi, all is forgiven!!!
And I paid a quid for mine, so I feel doubly ripped off. I'm still keeping it though, I'm a completist.
Last edited by Jack Gurney; 28-07-11 at 11:19 PM.
Although, I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed Jeepers Creepers. Thought the first two thirds (and especially the opening) were very effective.
Beyond Bedlam! OMG!
Posting Permissions