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Sublime (2007)
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 00:00 |
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Reviewed by Carol Sullivan
Genre: Horror
ON DVD: March 13th, 2007 (DVD premiere)
Rating: Unrated
Director: Tony Krantz
Starring:
Tom Cavanagh, Kathleen York, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Katherine Cunningham-Eves, David Clayton Rogers
Studio: Flame Ventures
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If you have been itching for a horror movie that touches on everyone's fear of surgeries and hospitals, then you absolutely should run down and rent Sublime. Directed by Tony Krantz (Executive Producer of t.v.'s 24) and written by Emmy Award Winner, Erik Jendersen (Band of Brothers), Sublime is an eye-catching film that will definitely get under your skin...
The movie begins as we meet George (Tom Cavanagh, t.v.'s Ed); a middle-aged man checking into the Mt. Abbadon hospital for a routine, surgical colonoscopy. As uncomfortable as this surely will be, his doctor and his sexy nurse, Zoey (Katherine Cunningham-Eves) assure him that he will be good as new in a couple of days.
But when George wakes after surgery, everything is far from fine. Groggy from sedation, the world looks wild and far away to George and he has a difficult time grasping reality, much less getting anyone to answer his questions. Drifting in and out of consciousness, the viewer goes along with George through a variety of flashbacks and gruesome hallucinations as the days pass. (These get to be a little much as the film goes along, but in-them lays the answer to his problem; so stick with it, folks.)
Certain of foul-play, George is living a hellish nightmare as he attempts to learn the truth about his doctors as well as his worsening condition. Is it all a drug-induced hallucination, or is the hospital and its staff doing the unthinkable?
Sublime is one of those movies that you hate to admit that you enjoyed; it is painful to watch this man going through what feels like a bad acid-trip that never ends. The physical torture he endures and the horrific things he sees are all worsening as the viewer yearns for the punch-line to all this. By the time that it's delivered, it is all but expected.
But, don't give up hope, dear viewer; they throw another twist at you for good measure.
Creepy and beautifully filmed, Sublime brings home some tasty tension and some graphic and disturbing scenes; making it worthy of a rental and maybe even a purchase. I would recommend renting it first, though.
Overall Rating : 3
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 18 June 2009 15:08 )
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