Red Mist [DVD] [2008] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

A group of med students decide to mix narcotics w/ alcohol for a night of utter blotto-ness. Unfortunately, they are witnessed by Kevin, the hospital morgue attendant, who videos their antics on his cellphone. Rather than have their future careers ruined, said students decide to get the guy wasted instead, so they can destroy the evidence. Of course, things go horribly awry, leaving poor Kev in a deep coma! After dumping him in the hospital parking lot, our heroes go back to their studies. Oh no! One of the students w/ a conscience tries to help Kevin by injecting him w/ an experimental drug. Now, Kevin has psychic abilities, enabling him to possess those around him, turning them into his personal assassins of vengeance! RED MIST is a well-made, dark thriller w/ just enough horror elements to keep it creepy. If you enjoy a good possession story, like FALLEN, then RM should be worth your while...

**WARNING**
This movie is not for epileptics.
You WILL have a seizure like The Simpsons did when they went to Japan.

What we have here is a very "Shocker"-esque flick about "out of body experiences" from the guy who directed the cult hit "Shrooms".
A group of med students accidentally take a joke a little too far,
which lands the mentally-challenged, all too creepy, epileptic janitor at their college in a deep coma.
One of the students, feeling guilt for dumping him at the hospital,
injects him with an untested drug that revitalizes brain function, but causes out of body experiences.
But not just any OOBE,
this drug gives him the ability to possess others.
And of course he uses it to seek out revenge.
Hence the name Red Mist. (A feeling of rage that temporarily clouds one's judgement.)

There were plenty of deaths in this flick,
all of which, should have-could have been a lot gorier.
Don't get me wrong there was SOME blood.
but not nearly enough to match the viciousness of the deaths themselves.
The one death that should have delivered the most gore, (acid funnel) delivered the least, which seemed kind of like a cheap cop-out.
Aside from absent gore the movie also never seemed to mount any suspense.
Ok ok maybe the one scene, where the mother was standing at the head of the stairs holding the baby, was suspenseful
(subsequently this also happens to be the only scene in the whole film that pours on the red stuff)
but the rest of the movie was straight forward to the point of being predictable.
Anytime anyone was possessed their nose would bleed so there was no surprise.
If that small effect (nose bleed) were omitted the plot might have actually had the chance to pile on some tension.
Essentially; had the gore & suspense been present.. this flick would have been dynamite,
the acting was great,
the plot was interesting enough,
it had some nice production values,
like the camera work of a big budget flick.
It had all the makings of a great horror movie,
but just fell flat in the one department that should have made it.
If you're going to title your film "Red Mist" at least have the decency to show me some splatter.
3 stars = Worth a rental, but not a purchase

MORAL OF THE STORY:
If you're going to accidentally kill someone don't do a halfast job.

ALSO RECOMMENDED:
Shrooms, Shocker, Fallen, Jason Goes to Hell, Dead in 3 Days, Flatliners, Sublime, Scanners, The Dead Zone, Infection, Unrest, The Signal

It was pretty good and had some good acting in it. The story line was decent and there was enough blood and creepiness in it to make it worth buying.