"Splendid Low Key Weird Suburban Horror"
Writer & director Billy Senese's low budget horror thriller gets a dual format release from Arrow Films.
A suicide victim is brought to a mortuary. The corpse comes back to life but without any memory of who he is and ends up in the acute psychiatric ward of a local hospital, where he becomes the patient of Dr Daniel Forrester (Shane Carruth).
Dr Forrester has problems of his own, but soon these are overshadowed by a number of bizarre and unexplainable deaths amongst the patients. The 'suicide' victim claims he has something dark within him that he was trying to carve out.
Meanwhile, a forensic pathologist is trying to find out what happened to the body he was supposed to perform a post mortem on. Why had the man carved a spiral on himself? And why had he carved the same spiral pattern on the bottom of the bath where he presumably died, a bath filled with more blood than is splattered over the walls of his hotel room?
THE DEAD CENTER builds to a satisfying finale while at the same time remaining sufficiently ambiguous that it will keep you thinking afterwards. The low budget works in the film's favour. Everyday settings are drenched in gloom and there's a nice atmosphere of dread that builds as the film goes on.
Arrow's disc release comes with two commentary tracks (Senese, Carruth and co-star Jeremy Childs; Senese, producers Denis Deck & Jonathan Rogers and DP Andy Duensing). There's an in-depth making of, nine deleted scenes, an alternate ending, on-set interviews, a piece on the makeup effects and a Senese short film INTRUDER from 2011. The Blu-ray also contains six radio plays from Senese. Plus there's the usual trailers, teasers, image gallery & reversible sleeve. The first pressing will contain a booklet with new writing on the film by Jamie Graham.
Billy Senese's THE DEAD CENTER is out on dual format from Arrow Films on Monday 21st October 2019
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