Deadly Visions

Canada 2004
produced by
Harvey Kahn for Front Street Pictures, Transplant Productions
directed by Michael Scott
starring Nicolette Sheridan, Gordon Currie, Sarah Deakins, Philip Granger, Haili Page, Frida Betrani, Kyle Cassie, Patricia Idlette, Chris Gibson, Marion Eisman, Linda Darlow, David Peterson, Michael Eklund
written by John Murlowski, music by Sophia Morizet

review by
Dale Pierce

Operating on the age old belief that someone who dies violently has his or her last glimpses of life embedded into the retina of the eye takes a new twist here. The recipient of an eye transplant has visions of a past life and as such, insight into an unsolved murder. You can draw your own conclusions from there.

I will say the ending takes a surprise twist, which I'm not going to blow, making up for points where the plot starts to drag and you think you already have everything figured halfway through the movie.

Nicollette Sheridan, of Desperate Housewives fame, can't really seem to carry this movie as well as one would hope. Gordon Currie, Nicolai Carpathethia/The Antichrist of Left Behind fame is the co-star and does an admirable job. Like Bradford Dillman decades before, he seems to be making it his specialty to save lackluster flicks and make them enjoyable.  It is good to see him in a multitude of roles away from the Cloud Ten series, which will keep him from encountering the typecasting which could easily develop due to his more famous role of Antichrist (it is a bad sign when you watch this and marvel he is speaking without the Romanian accent, hinting the Nicolai-stigma may be starting to set in).

Not a great film, but not a bad one either, though originally released as a TV movie before finding its way to DVD and video. Because of this, the violence is a bit underplayed and the graphics are kept to a minimal.

Various reviews and commentaries on this movie have cropped up on the net, most of them favorable and indicating a surprise from people who picked up a copy with nothing better to do in mind or wishing to add to their thriller/horror DVD library, then found themselves glad they made the purchase.

review © by Dale Pierce

 

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