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John (Desmond Daly) has a successful career as a psychiatrist to show
for himself ... and suddenly he finds himself tied to a chair in a
basement, with not only no idea how he got there, but also no idea who
this guy called David Crowe (Peter O'Toole) is who keeps him tied up
there, and why he would do such a thing. Problem is, David knows a few too
many things about John's past to not be taken seriously, and David has
some torture devices to make John confess a few things that John would
rather forget ... Like, John wasn't always John. Sure, he always was a
psychatrist, but he had another name only a dozen of years ago. And David
might have been one of his patients whom he might have sent to a
particularly unpleasant insane asylum. In return, David claims to have
killed John's first wife from a former life, but then again, John has had
an affair with one of his patients, Sarah (Donna Bradley) anyways - Sarah,
who came to him after she witnessed her husband (Paul Byrne) shoot their
children and then himself, who came to him at her most feeblest and became
his lover. But there's waaay more to it than that, because how come
Sarah, who John at one point confesses he has killed even, has become his
second (still alive) wife, and what really happened to John's first wife.
And what the intercourse are David's actual motives? Being by
and large limited to one (rather plain) location and mostly featuring no
more than two actors (with the exception of the finale of course), this is
a very intense piece of psycho horror, as it, despite the presence of many
a torture device, relies mostly on the performances of its two leads (who
are both brilliant), the material they are given to work with and the
directorial effort that more than makes up for the lack of actual
spectacle. To sum that up, Fractional is tense, it's brutal without
being overly graphic, and it's mean in all the right places to keep the
audience glued to their seats. Recommended!
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