Renowned Dr Marcus (Michael Ironside) has accepted a job at a mental institution that mainly hosts extreme socio- and psychopaths to see if their condition has been caused by whatever it's said to have, or if they try to hide something more sinister. Most of these patients have murder in their past, and are far from not being dangerous anymore, but then again the doctor is not exactly one to shy away from unorthodox, even violent, treatment of his patients himself ...

• The Visitant: Jill (Ashleigh Buxton) is said to have murdered her mother (Amy Smart) in cold blood, but she claims her mother, the mind clouded from visions of a demon (Dough Jones), wanted to kill her ...
• The Body: A serialkiller prowling the streets of London openly drags a body wrapped in plastic through the streets Halloween night - and everybody thinks it's the greatest costume ever. In fact everybody's so excited about the costume, they help him bury the body, thinking it's a great Halloween prank - and only find out he's serious when it's way too late ...
• Undying Love: In zombie-infected Iceland, a young man saves women from the undead ... only to feed them to his zombiefied wife.
• Sleeping Plot: In New Zealand, little Sarah houses her dead friend Vic in her wardrobe ... unti she has enough money to buy a shovel to bury her.
• Banishing: The family dog dies, and only Jessa's sister knows it was little Jessa (Danielle Kotch) - but she claims she has been possessed. Her sister figures it's only in her imagination and thus figures she might be able to "exorcise" the demon - a plan that horribly backfires.
• Death Scenes: Damon believes himself to be a vampire hunter, but one might also call him a serialkiller using an excuse to kill all those people.

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Dr Marcus manages to unmask all the patients as frauds who actually prefer to live in their own world to confess to guilt and properly pay for their deeds - but he's also very smug about it, a smugness that's unlikely to go unpunished ...

True, the separate stories of Patient Seven are kind of heterogenous and make only limited sense within the frame of the wraparound story (even if they serve the finale very well) - but taken on their own, they are all very likeable horror shorts that withtheir mix of the macabre, the uncanny and the absurd, with dashes of black humour thrown in occasionally, they are pretty reminiscent of the classic Twilight Zone - plus the wraparound story taken by its own merits most certainly packs a punch, and Michael Ironside as the smug doctor is most certainly aweseme.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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