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Psychosis

Australia 2023
produced by
Pirie Martin, Matthew Helderman (executive), Luke Taylor (executive), Nikki Stier Justice (executive), Jarrad Bhatia (executive) for Kessel Run Productions
directed by Pirie Martin
starring Derryn Amoroso, Kate Holly Hall, Henry Errington, Michael Wilkop, Pj van Gyen, James McCluskey-Garcia, Mark Healy, Dorian Tisato, Louise Byrne, Adrian Brunato, Adam MacNeill, Kate van der Horst, Andy Steuart, Cody Duncan, Kyle Duncan, with narration by Lindsay Dunn
written by Pirie Martin, music by Matthew Morison, Adrian Schmidt Mumm

review by
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Hapless drug dealers Brodie (Henry Errington) and Aaron Birch (Michael Wilkop) and their drug cook No-Arms (Mark Healy) have stolen a drug formula and are trying to take over some gang's turf without sufficient manpower - or at least the first idea what they're actually doing. However, for that someone sends two thugs round their house which they actually manage to kill. But now what to do with the corpses? And why did the thugs act like zombies in the first place? This calls fixer Van Aarle (Derryn Amoroso) on the scene, a coffiee addict who constantly hears voices - but he's really good at his job. So he helps them get rid of the bodies and tries to find out who's after them - and comes up with the name Joubini (James McCluskey-Garcia), a sort of super-criminal whose actual identity or whereabouts are unknown though but who is knee-deep into the drug trade, with a focus on new and dangerous drugs ... and maybe even zombie drugs. To find Joubini, Van Aarle is sent on a wild goose chase, that makes him cross paths with creepy drugdealer Skeleton (Dorian Tisato), weird wolf-masked vigilant Lone Wolf (Pj van Gyen) and leads him to a bizarre hotel. And while he comes up with very little clues, Brodie, Aaron and No-Arms have all been kidnapped by Joubini's zombie goons, and to not chalk up a loss on this assignment, Van Aarle and his assistant Hess (Kate Holly Hall) see themselves forced to track them down - less than confident they're even up for the job ...

 

Now sure, above synopsis might come across as slightly pulpy, and Psychosis sure enough isn't a stranger to genre tropes. But at the same time, the film doesn't play like your typical thriller, it's full of psychedelic, at times surreal, details, intentionally doesn't rate plausibility too highly when it comes to its plot, is carried by rich, sharply contrasted mostly black and white imagery, and doesn't take itself all that seriously. But what's really disorienting about this film (intentionally of course) is that it actually gets into the head of its protagonist and lets us hear the voices he hears, adding an extra level of distortion to the proceedings - which might not be everyone's thing, granted, but helps make this film a rather fascinating watch.

 

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