First Freakdog poster

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 18 years ago

Last Updated on July 27, 2021

Paddy Breathnach’s new flick FREAKDOG (once known as RED MIST) will be playing at next week’s UK FRIGHTFEST and the official site for the horror festival has tossed up a teaser poster (which is most likely a long way from final). Check out the synopsis below, although anyone hoping for an explanation as to the titular “freakdog” will be left wanting…

Hospital janitor Kenneth Chisholm gets caught with voyeuristic photos on his mobile phone by a group of trainee medical students. When they confront him over his sleazy actions in a local bar, he has an epileptic fit putting him into a deep coma. But when remorseful Catherine Thomas administers an untested cocktail of wonder drugs to hopefully help ease his condition, the perverted patient is jolted into a startling ‘out-of-body’ state. Those heightened powers allow his spirit to enter the medics in turn so they will carry out his bloody brand of murderous justice vengefully on each other. With everyone a possible killer and nobody knowing at which stage they might be possessed, how do you go from being a doctor committed to saving life to one taking it in the most violent ways imaginable?

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Eric Walkuski

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