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Yönetmen
Paul Fox
Yapım : 2005
Ülke :  Kanada
Tür : Horror
Süre : 80 dakika
IMDB Puan : 6.5/10 
IMDB ID: tt0402249
A.K.A
Head Games : Cana, working title ()
The Dark Hours : Cana, ()
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Oyuncular
Kate Greenhouse - Samantha Goodman
Aidan Devine - Harlan Pyne
Gordon Currie - David Goodman
Iris Graham - Melody
Dov Tiefenbach - Adrian
David Calderisi - Dr. Lew Lanigan
Jeff Seymour - Radiologist
Trevor Hayes - Doctor
Bruce McFee - Donald Wegman
Kathryn Haggis - Waitress
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Bilgi :Dr. Samantha Goodman, an attractive psychiatrist in her thirties, joins her husband and sister for a weekend at a winter cottage when an unexpected guest arrives. Harlan Pyne, a violent sexual offender, is convinced that Samantha conducted unethical experiments on him while she was his doctor. With the assistance of his troubled yet eager protege, Harlan forces Samantha and her family to participate in a series of nightmarish games. On this night of terror, escape is not an option, truth guarantees nothing, and revenge will not necessarily be sweet.
Review: Greenhouse plays 30-ish Dr. Sam Goodman, a shrink who specializes in violent sexual offenders at an icily minimalist Canadian institution. First seen coolly dealing with a disturbed patient (Bruce McFee), Goodman has more than a few problems of her own: a brain tumor that's still growing, curious needle marks on her thigh and a marriage that has hit the sexual rocks.
Ordered to take a weekend off to spend time with her family, Sam meets up with hubby Dave (Gordon Currie) and her sister Melody (Iris Graham) at their remote cottage in the snowy hills. Relations between Sam and Dave are cool; those between Dave and Melody appear to be considerably hotter.
Half an hour in, the drama cranks up when a weirdo, Adrian (Dov Tiefenbach), shoots their dog and holds them up at gunpoint. But Adrian is simply the advance guard for the real psycho, Harlan Pyne (Aidan Devine), one of Sam's former patients. Harlan, who kidnapped and raped a teenage boy, still remembers how Sam used him for some extreme medical tests, and now wants payback -- in the form of some rather violent games.
Story has plenty of potential in the various tensions between all the characters, but for a drama that is more dialogue rather than action-driven the script is often way too obvious and explanatory. TV thesp Greenhouse comes off best as the doctor who stands up to Harlan's psychological games but also has her own survival issues to deal with.
Less convincing is Devine, who refreshingly plays Harlan as a chummy, "normal""Normal" guy but without the necessary edge to make sense of his lapses into violence. This seriously undercuts any underlying tension throughout the pic.
Other actors are OK, and helmer Fox delivers a technically pro package with a suitably wintry look and tight editing (fade-outs and fade-ins chaptering the tale). Third act contains some neat cross-cutting and semi-Brechtian effects as the psychodrama gets down and dirty, plus a sequence involving the slicing of a member that is not for the squeamish. Ethereal music by E.C. Woodley is a plus. |
