I think I might be the only person who thinks this is a good movie.

This very Giallo-esque outing is about a severely scarred, burned kid with psychic powers who breaks out of a mental institution and returns to his hometown to torture everybody, where he brainwashes all the towns kids to help him not. Not that he needs the help, though, since he can make things burst into flame just by looking at them.

But the plot doesn't matter all that much. Neither does the often bad, hammy acting (including the odd casting of Vincent "Big Pussy" Pastore from The Sopranos as a histrionic psychiatrist.) What matters is that this thing has this sort of outsider-art cinematographic beauty to it, much like the old Giallo films. It's just a cool-looking, atmospheric film.

It's so Giallo-esque that I checked to see if it was made in Italy. It wasn't, but it was made by an Italian-American director from New Jersey. So, much be something in the genes. Or the marinara sauce.

I looked on IMDB and everybody else hates, hates, hates this film. I mean, I get it it for sure, if you're looking for a conventional horror flick, or a conventional movie of any sort, no way. But I found it just too visually well-crafted, in a thoroughly outsider-art sort of way, for me not to at least appreciate it.