(I'm guessing the similarities to Terror Train and its own oddball-turned-killer Kenny are intentional.)Ĭat's posse includes best friend/blond bitch Kim (Sarah Carter), goth Harriet (Katie McGrath), Johns Hopkins-bound love interest Jake (Alex Wyndham), bartender/med student/new father Steve (Michael Jibson), timid follower Yoshimi (Christina Chong) and ringleader Sean (Martin Compston)-who spearheads the prank that leaves the epileptic Kenny in a coma at a bar after hours. But poor 'Creepy Kenny' ('Freakdog' to his tormenters) can't help himself: He has a crush on beautiful brainiac Catherine (Arielle Kebbel of The Uninvited, The Grudge 2 and John Tucker Must Die), the only sympathetic soul in a gang of bullies. It would be in Kenny's best interest to avoid those cruel partying students who want to have a little fun with him after they discover he has an incriminating video. He's got some traumatic memories of his slutty mom's demise, which has scarred him in more ways than one: He's socially awkward, especially around women (who he likes to spy on in the locker room) he's got a fascination with the morgue's dead bodies and then there's that self-mutilation problem. We immediately meet soon-to-be victim Kenny (Andrew Lee Potts), an oddball janitor at an American med school. While not officially a remake of Richard Franklin's ode to Hitchcock, Red Mist (a limp, pointless title that doesn't provoke excitement or fear) borrows heavily from the story-and tries really hard to overcome its direct-to-video origins.ĭirected by Paddy Breathnach ( Shrooms) and shot in his native Ireland, Red Mist (aka Freakdog) follows a familiar structure that comes straight out of Horror 101's 'How-To' book. One of the few problems with the stylish Patrick-that 1978 thriller about a comatose patient getting telekinetic revenge from his hospital bed-was the sometimes snail-like pace that made the film feel like a made-for-TV movie.

'So Kenneth's somehow taken over people's bodiesĪnd killing us one at a time? Have I got that right?'

Guard of the red mist