Last time I wrote about RED MIST, Paddy Breathnach’s follow-up to SHROOMS(right), the flick had cast 3 actors (Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Carter, Stephen Dillane), but we knew nothing about the plot… Well, those eagle-eyed miscreants over at Dread Central snooped around the flick’s IMDB page and discovered that at long last we know the deets! And no, it’s not a sequel to THE MIST, ya silly billy (okay, that was uncalled for, I didn’t mean that).
A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful “out-of-body” experience and enables the patient – a depraved and dangerous loner – to inhabit other people’s bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition. The doctor, who was herself a part of this group, is also targeted and as her colleagues are singled out and relentlessly picked off, she realizes that she can trust no-one – friend or stranger – as this comatose killer moves in and out of bodies at will, getting ever closer as his murderous supernatural powers increase.
Nothing too amazing, but might at least be atmospheric – Breathnach showed with SHROOMS that he’s much more adept at an eerie visual style than unique storytelling ability. Hopefully RED MIST won’t have an ending you can predict BEFORE the movie even begins…
The film is currently underway in Breathnach’s homeland, Ireland.
Sarah Carter