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Up until very recently, Elizabeth (Heather Graham) was a respected psychiatrist who has actually written the definite book on out-of-body experiences - but now she has brutally killed a man, which has landed her locked up in an insane asylum. And now Elizabeth's best friend Dr. Upton (Barbara Crampton) wants to find out why. Apparently it all started when a young man, Asa (Judah Lewis), showed up at her office's doorstep and help regarding threatment for out-of-body experiences - in other worlds her field exactly. Thing is, Asa believes he's time and again possessed by his father - and then "!transforms" into his father before her very eyes. Of course, there's a perfectly simple (psycho-)logical explanation to this, and yet she feels compelled to help the boy. She pays a visit to his home, but doesn't find him but his father Ephraim (Bruce Davison), an old man suffering from a weak heart - and bad manners. Their conversation is rather fruitless though, but later Elizabeth receives another call from Asa, and rushing to his home, she finds him standing over the dying body of his father - but rather than asking for her help reviving him he wants to decapitate the old man.  Thing is, suddenly Asa changes again and seduces her while his father dies - but when they have sex, they suddenly change personalities, if only for a few seconds, but long enough to convince Elizabeth that everything Asa has said is true, and he's now probably possessed by his father. And as if to prove this, Asa severs his father's head to prevent the real Asa from getting his body back again. Thing is, the old man has enjoyed being a woman, so he soon again swaps bodies with her, and while Elizabeth's body is caught in Asa's body that has been chained up, Asa's dad in her body has sex with her husband (Jonathon Schaech), and rough sex at that. Back in her own body, Elizabeth has by now realized in what kind of danger she is, and she brutally tries to kill Asa - or rather Asa's dad in his body since Asa's mind has already been killed for good. A crime she's not only arrested and thrown into an insane asylum for, she also has to learn Asa's dad is not one to easily be killed ...

Originally written by Dennis Paoli for Stuart Gordon as another one of his Lovecraft adaptations, Gordon unfortunately died before he could make the movie - but fortunately the script didn't go to waste but was picked up by a filmmaker with a deep respect for Stuart Gordon and 1980s and 90s straight-to-video horror in general, so this has turned into a wonderfully absurd tale of terror full of gore, of macabre and grotesque imagery, and over-the-top setpieces, all based on a well-structured and -balanced script. And while the tongue's firmly in cheek in the movie, the actors still play it straight to not spoil the horror side of the proceedings. And the result is not only a nice throwback but a pretty good shocker in its own right.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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