Crushed
She's Crushed

USA 2009
produced by
Chad Breshears for Hold It Now Films
directed by Patrick Johnson
starring Natalie Dickinson, Henrik Norlén, Robert Parschall jr, Caitlin Wehrle, Keith Malley, Hunter Carson, Connor Sides, Amanda Phillips, David Taffet, Mille Chrisman, Britton Atchley, Chase Demoss, Denton Blane Everett, Phil Harrington, Melissa Mackay, Nicolas Valenzuel, Chris Zielke, Tina Bishop, Candace Campfield, Amanda Cunningham
written by Patrick Johnson, music by Serge Chubinsky-Orlov, special effects makeup by Britton Atchley, Evil John Mays

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Tara (Natalie Dickinson) finds Ray (Henrik Norlén), a passing acquaintance of hers, passed out on the sidewalk after a night of binge-drinking, and she takes him home where they have sex. She has fallen in love with him right away, but he breaks up with her the very next day, first and foremost because he has a girlfriend, Maddie (Caitlin Wehrle) and a kid, Billy (Connor Sides). Tara however is not ready to accept this, so she starts harrassing him, and when that doesn't work, she starts killing people in his vicinity, like his friends and colleagues at work, and she always sees to it that Ray is somehow involved in these killings - without his knowledge of course, but who's going to believe him, right? Also, she shows an unhealthy obsession with lobotomy, triggered by her lobotomized mother (Mille Chrisman).

Anyways, making him an unwilling accomplice in several murders doesn't make Ray willing to become her boyfriend either, so Tara kidnaps him and ties him up in her basement, then lures his girlfriend to her home and slaughters her before his very eyes, then even takes care of his son ... and when that doesn't work as a love charm either, she just lobotomizes Ray to maked him her zombie-like toy boy - until he dies on her and she has to look for a new lover ...

This could have been an interesting story about obsession gone to horrible extremes, a shocking excursion into perversion, at least something that's really disturbing ... and yet, Crushed is none of that, it's just a by-the-numbers psycho-thriller with by-the-numbers shock and suspense scenes, carried by over-used character clichés and an impersonal directorial effort that treats the story at hand with maximum gloss that makes even the most gory scenes so annoyingly tasteful.

A major disappointment actually, given the promising premise.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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