Red Mist

I don’t really know what I thought about this movie. I found some things about it to be interesting, and the rest had me rolling my eyes. It carried very little in the way of fear, however I do enjoy a good possession movie. Red Mist, also called Freakdog, is your standard horror-in-the-hospital movie. You know the kind, outrageously attractive and fit medical students at a teaching college that accidentally make some sort of blunder. This is usually followed by varying degrees of douch-baggery on the part of the young students, you see where this is going right? This movie did not stray from that path unfortunately.

Our new friend “Freakdog” is your typical mentally challenged and abused character. After seeing his mother either beaten or killed while looking through the biggest fucking keyhole, he went straight to loopy land, but got hired in the morgue at some hospital. It just so happens that a small group of med students are studying in the very same hospital. Well this group of Demi-Gods taunt Freakdog, and call him… well they call him Freakdog, and one night in a club while diving into some of the prescription drugs they bought illegally from the hospital pharmacy, they put poor Freakdog into a coma after accidentally inducing an epileptic seizure with the strobe light. They bitch and yell at each other, one camp wants to save their asses since this will get them kicked out of the hospital, the other camp wants to do the right thing. By “other camp” I really mean one person, Catherine is our shinning beacon of morality.

Wrought by guilt, Catherine visits Freakdog in the coma ward where the doctor tells her he is a vegetable since the oxygen was cut off from his brain for too long during the seizure and he is no more than a house plant. After an exciting research montage, Catherine collects reports about a study using a certain serum that appears to reconnect and revitalize the brains of coma vegetables but not without consequences. Dun dun dun! So she sneaks into his room every night to give him his medicine which activated his “out of body” portion of his brain, I had no idea that this fictional portion of the brain has even been mapped out but whatever. So Mr. Veggie spends the rest of the movie having fits and possessing people in order to exact his revenge on those mean medical students.

I would like to say there was a twist, or that the movie was predictable, but I believe that I was put into a vegetative state while viewing this. I did find enjoyment out of the possessed lurch about and do away with the snobby students, this was moderately creative and enjoyable but outside of that, I found Freakdog’s seizures to be more humorous than tense.