RED MIST is a film a bit like the TV show House, only no one is suspected of having lupus and everyone is on drugs – not just Dr House.
The film starts with an unattractive hospital orderly who is messed up by a troubled childhood in which his prostitute mother is murdered in front of him – you’ll easily be able to work out which one he is – years later he is the one self-harming while perving at a cadaver’s breast in the morgue. All this back-story is told in the first two minutes of the film, making it a film that promises much. Meanwhile, the young attractive medical students are making many, many mistakes. The first is thinking that they should ever become doctors and have easy access to prescription drugs, the second is being cruel to the weirdo orderly.
One night while having yet another a drug fueled bender, they are interrupted by the orderly who threatens their futures by having captured their questionable drug access on his mobile phone. The panic at the thought of the end of their oh so brief careers leads them to make another mistake – making him overdose on a lethal amount of alcohol and range of random drugs and then dumping his comatose body in the hospital car park – showing one of many signs that they are far from being the kind of person you want diagnosing your cancer and giving you a smear test.
When they find out he is in a coma, no one except for goodie-goodie Catherine played by the lovely Arielle Kebbel, is that bothered – they are just pleased they might be able to get away with it. However, wracked by guilt (and also a little tinge of pride) Catherine tries an experimental drug treatment to try and help him. Unfortunately for everyone (except for perhaps their future potential patients), comatose creepy Kenneth, well played by creepy Andrew Lee Potts, is now able to get his revenge and what follows are some quite bloody deaths.
Director, Paddy Breathnach, whose previous work includes ‘SHROOMS, does a lot better with this film than with his previous work, and the cast over all do an OK job being annoy and stupid medical students who deserve to die. On the whole, the film, though not breaking any records or pushing any boundaries, is fairly entertaining, though sadly missing anyone with any real medical problems, especially lupus.
RED MIST will be released in cinemas on 3rd July and will be available on DVD/ Blu-Ray at all major outlets from 13th July.