Dementia
It's an assured, deftly acted movie that builds its creepiness slowly and keeps its secrets well hidden till the end.
Dementia
A disabled war veteran is in bad hands when his family hires the live-in nurse from hell in this intense psychological shocker. George (The Sacrament’s Gene Jones) is an aging ex-soldier haunted by memories of Vietnam and struggling to reconnect with his estranged son and granddaughter. But when he suffers a stroke and is diagnosed with dementia, George is left in the care of Michelle (Halloween’s Kristina Klebe), a seemingly sweet nurse with a disturbing dark side. At the mercy of a psychopath with a hypodermic needle, George becomes a prisoner in his own home, caught in a sadistic game of cat and mouse as brutal as anything he experienced in Vietnam. In his feature debut, director Mike Testin masterfully keeps the tension mounting—until it explodes in delirious violence.
Genre
Horror,
Thriller
Runtime
90
Language
English
Director
Mike Testin
Cast
Gene Jones,
Kristina Klebe,
Hassie Harrison,
Richard Riehle
FEATURED REVIEW
Maitland McDonagh, Film Journal International
George Lockhart (Gene Jones) is a proud, short-tempered Vietnam War veteran who, by his own admission, was a terrible father to his son Jerry (Peter Cilella)..."terrible" as in abusive drunk, and Jerry is still irreparably embittered. But George has sobered up and mellowed–sort of–with age, has a ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 12.10.15 - 12.17.15
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