Parasomnia

Wow. The ultimate "A+ for effort" horror/fantasy flick. Fails, but what an effort!

In terms of plot, if it matters, a temporary resident of a mental institution falls for the comatose girl up the hall, who it turns out... nah, I'm not going to spoil it. It's not exactly "different", but it steals so brazenly from films that are, that it is.

This "teen scream"-quality film shamelessly steals from Silence Of The Lambs, Saw, Mirrormask (actually stealing from that one shows impressive discernment) and I'm sure a million others on its way to a far more phantasmagoric second half than anyone could possibly see coming. It goes so far, and commits so hard to what it's trying to do, that it's actually impressive. And it's not even "so bad it's good"... it's not bad bad bad, it's just... aggressively mediocre, in so many ways, yet tries so hard in so many others. This was a labor of love for some misguided soul*. I actually liked it. That's not to say it's a good movie. But, wow, what a movie, for a not-good movie.

(*actually, it turns out, this was the director who did one of the lesser episodes of Masters Of Horror, an anthology series I overall liked, who funded this entire special-effects-laden movie out of his own pocket. So yes... labor of love, apparently.)