I have a question for the horror fans today? What stars Olivia (Black Christmas) Hussey, Sean Young, Udo Kier and Dee Wallace Stone? No this isn't the 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon, it's the movie we are reviewing today Headspace.
Headspace tells the tale of a young man, Alex who is plagued with severe headaches. The headaches worsen upon a chance meeting with an ace street corner chess player/artist. As the headaches increase one evening he passes out on the floor as a fiend is at his apartment. His friend gets him an ambulance and once at the hospital tests are ran on him to see if he has any neurological issues.
Upon the doctors findings they discover that he is using the frontal lobe to an amazing degree, to a point that he is able to remember things by the slightest glance. Shortly after this Alex begins to have visions that he remembers as a child having of people dying and creatures! These creatures begin to manifest themselves into our world and begin to kill anyone in contact with Alex. Can Alex find the key to these creatures and whats causing this and what is his link to this mysterious chess master? I was rather entertained with this film. It has a very solid cast and an interesting story and has a couple of nice gore set pieces but nothing extremely nasty (except for a shotgun blast to the head sequence that was cool). This one is more of a mix of psychological horror/monster movie which I cannot recall the last time I seen one quite this way. Shades of From Beyond can be seen throughout in this film as well as we deal with things in another dimension and enlarged frontal lobes.
This movie is one that you may have to watch twice to catch everything and some things you may not get completely however unlike the film Calvaire (which did a lot of that to little success) this movie overall can be made heads or tails out of and will not have you totally scratching your head in the end.
Other than some lulls in action and some weird peeping tom sequence that really did not seem to fit into the story other than a chance to show a sex scene this is a solid rental title and for some a possible purchase. Another low expectations going into flick that will entertain if you do so. I give Headspace: 6/10: above average, a nice horror/thriller that will provide a nice 90 minutes of entertainment for those interested in a change of pace mental creature feature flick or for those who like to watch horror movies dealing with the mind.
Thats it for now but remember the creatures of the mind can sometimes be worse than the creatures in the flesh!!!
Headspace tells the tale of a young man, Alex who is plagued with severe headaches. The headaches worsen upon a chance meeting with an ace street corner chess player/artist. As the headaches increase one evening he passes out on the floor as a fiend is at his apartment. His friend gets him an ambulance and once at the hospital tests are ran on him to see if he has any neurological issues.
Upon the doctors findings they discover that he is using the frontal lobe to an amazing degree, to a point that he is able to remember things by the slightest glance. Shortly after this Alex begins to have visions that he remembers as a child having of people dying and creatures! These creatures begin to manifest themselves into our world and begin to kill anyone in contact with Alex. Can Alex find the key to these creatures and whats causing this and what is his link to this mysterious chess master? I was rather entertained with this film. It has a very solid cast and an interesting story and has a couple of nice gore set pieces but nothing extremely nasty (except for a shotgun blast to the head sequence that was cool). This one is more of a mix of psychological horror/monster movie which I cannot recall the last time I seen one quite this way. Shades of From Beyond can be seen throughout in this film as well as we deal with things in another dimension and enlarged frontal lobes.
This movie is one that you may have to watch twice to catch everything and some things you may not get completely however unlike the film Calvaire (which did a lot of that to little success) this movie overall can be made heads or tails out of and will not have you totally scratching your head in the end.
Other than some lulls in action and some weird peeping tom sequence that really did not seem to fit into the story other than a chance to show a sex scene this is a solid rental title and for some a possible purchase. Another low expectations going into flick that will entertain if you do so. I give Headspace: 6/10: above average, a nice horror/thriller that will provide a nice 90 minutes of entertainment for those interested in a change of pace mental creature feature flick or for those who like to watch horror movies dealing with the mind.
Thats it for now but remember the creatures of the mind can sometimes be worse than the creatures in the flesh!!!