‘Shrooms’ director Paddy Breathnach still hasn’t the foggiest idea of how to make a horror.
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07/03/09
Red Mist (2008)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:1
Rotten:11
Average Rating:2.9/10
Theatrical Release:03-07-2009
Synopsis: A college prank turns tragic when it puts Forthaven Hospital's janitor into a coma. One of the responsible medical students (Arielle Kebbel) takes it upon herself to revive him, using an... [More]
Reviews for Red Mist
1 - 12 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticA derivative and titter-inducingly weak slasher movie.
07/03/09
Top CriticA very ordinary, conventional, by-the-numbers creepfest without any dark spark.
07/03/09
Top CriticBeep, beep, wooooooo…: this moronic medical horror's so awful, you'll be willing yourself to flatline.
07/03/09
This is a by-the-numbers slasher dressed up as a thriller, with Holby City-level acting.
07/03/09
It isn't scary enough or funny enough to be worth your time.
07/03/09
Red Mist is a lazy, incoherent shocker with nothing to recommend it.
07/03/09
The plot is total rubbish, and no amount of slick film-making can make you believe it is worth all the blood and gore we have to sit through.
07/03/09
You've seen this all before, and you've seen it done better.
07/03/09
Slasher movies tend to be all about the fiend doing the carving and cutting in a search for revenge. And that's pretty much the core of Red Mist.
07/03/09
Paddy Breathnach's second horror outing plays much like his first, mixing genres and influences into a heady cocktail - although this time around the flavours may no longer satisfy the jaded palate.
06/26/09
Top CriticRoutine surgery.
12/23/08
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