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Netflix Release: Clinical – Movie Review

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7 years ago

January 14, 2017

Every year there are new horror movies. Some in the cinemas, some released on iTunes and by now, many are released right through Netflix. This Friday the 13th they released their newest movie, Clinical. After their recent hits The Invitation and I am the pretty thing that lives in the house, the expectations were high. Let’s see if they succeeded.

About The Movie

Clinical is about a psychiatrist who, after a traumatic experience is on her way to get better again, taking patients again for the first time. She especially bonds with Alex, who got a face transplant after an accident. But her trauma is still haunting her.

The traumatic experience was a teenage girl, a patient of hers, attacking her and cutting her own throat. This is our first glimpse of the great visual effects that we’ll see all throughout the movie. There isn’t an overwhelming amount of blood every appearance is brutal and realistic.

The movie is set around Christmas time, so the score is mostly Christmas songs (even the credits are over Jingle Bells). But all the songs actually enhance the mood. When they are not playing, we get a haunting violin score, even more moody.

Behind the Scenes

The two main actors are Vinessa Shaw as Dr. Jane Mathis, the psychiatrist, and Kevin Rahm, the disfigured patient Alex. They have a great chemistry together and are both convincing. India Eisly plays Nora, the teenage patient she couldn’t help, and \she is very good in the scenes she is in. She is also very good at looking creepy. Throughout the movie she appears either in flashbacks or standing in the background, just being scary.

What I Thought

Let’s talk about this movies mood. There are no jump scares at all, which is always a big plus in my book. It still manages to scare you, especially in the first third of the movie. At times it feels like a ghost movie, the evil girl making appearances just out of sight, or just for a quick second, all to set the mood. Also in quite a few scenes we get Jane in sleep paralysis, which is also well done.

During the middle third of the movie it sways away from the scary parts. It feels more like a serious drama about traumas. This is where we learn most about the characters and about the backstory. There are still some gruesome scenes (when Alex remembers back to the accident before he needed a new face), but it still feels more drama than horror.

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The third and final act goes somewhere completely different. I won’t spoil it, but there is some more great gore in it. Sadly, however, it turns the movie around completely. We get a twist that left me slightly confused. So sadly the ending was a bit of a letdown.

Final Thoughts

Clinical is a good horror movie, keeping you interested and thinking. Maybe the 104 minute run time could have been shortened to 80 to 90 minutes, but it still didn’t feel too long. It was scary throughout, well acted and actually went deeper than just a “scary movie”. It didn’t overexpose with bloody and gory scenes, but the ones it had were just perfect. Only the ending was a letdown, I hoped for something different.

I’m rating Clinical 3 out of 5 stars, don’t expect too much, but give it a chance.

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.

We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.

“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”

Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date

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April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.

Jake Gyllenhaal’s in ‘Presumed Innocent’

Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.

These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:

According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”

Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.

Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.