Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38306 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-08-18
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 92 minutes

DVD Description
A troubled young woman (Thora Birch) wakes up one day as a different person, someone being stalked by terrifying creatures.

Ugly, twisted creatures, led by the monstrous Needlelooth, seem to be stalking her every move, plaguing her already bizarre existence. Even in her own home she feels their malevolent presence.

But what is the dream and what is reality?

Synopsis
A troubled young woman (Thora Birch) wakes up one day as a different person, someone being stalked by terrifying creatures. Ugly, twisted creatures, led by the monstrous Needlelooth, seem to be stalking her every move, plaguing her already bizarre existence. Even in her own home she feels their malevolent presence. But what is the dream and what is reality?

Customer Reviews

The stuff of nightmares
Susan Hamilton(Thora Birch) leads a seemingly happy life with a loving husband. She is experiencing stress over her inability to concieve and she starts to have traumatic nightmares where she is a different woman called Katherine White, who is being stalked by a vicious killer known as the Nightstalker. Soon, both worlds start to encroach on eachother, and the terrified Susan turns to charming hypnotherapist Dr. Woodleigh(Toby Stephens) for help.
This a wonderful labyrinthian horror film, with enough twists and turns throughout the film to keep the viewer guessing to the last reel, and what a denouement we get. Thora Birch is excellent in dual roles, as is Stephens, and Oliver Price as 'Needletooth' is real nightmare material. Add to this a portentous music score that puts one in mind of Jerry Goldsmith's Ave Satani, and some genuine scary moments and you have an intelligent, enjoyable horror film that really gets under the skin. Full marks-5 out of 5

Original, but slightly confusing!
By his own admission, writer/director Ray Gower, based this movie largely around the darker and suspense-filled genre of Japanese horror, which therefore misses the usual cliché-ridden drivel that is largely being released in America. There are no teenagers on a road trip; no jocks or dumb blondes; and for the most part hardly a reason for you to roll your eyes in bewilderment as the characters make stupid and unrealistic decisions.

Thora Birch is a good lead character playing both the troubled down-on-her-luck black haired morgue-assistant Karen Clarke, and the happily married, affluent blonde Susan Hamilton with equal quality. However, whilst the originality of the movie is strong, the story can be complicated and confusing as you are not sure which of Thora's characters is the main one, and which is the dream-character. For the first half of the film this is intriguing and adds to the storyline, however as the movie plays out you are left even more confused, wondering whether Mt Gower has tried to be a little too clever for his own good. For me the other annoying thing is that the movie is either filtered very dark (like the Japanese horror movies), or filtered very white and bright like it's in heaven, and doesn't so much add atmospherics but feel slightly condescending having to point out the contrasting separate characters...

On the whole the movie is entertaining (personally I had no problem with the speech seemingly dubbed), but I do agree that the ending was a slight anti-climax, although that said, I might just not have truly got it.

I would've given it 3 and a half as it's slightly better than a 3.