An executed serial killer, an escaped mental patient, a beautiful seductress, a crazed strangler and a masked murderer unleash blood-soaked mayhem over the course of one night.
Release Date: December 1st, 2017
Not Yet Rated |1 hr 25 min
Plot SummaryAn executed serial killer, an escaped mental patient, a beautiful seductress, a crazed strangler and a masked murderer unleash blood-soaked mayhem over the course of one night.
Cast: Ashley Bell, Jamie Ann Burke, Larry Fessenden, Angela Trimbur, Sam Zimmerman, James Landry Hébert, Mark Kassen, Matt Mercer
Director: Mickey Keating
Genres: Horror
Production Co: Glass Eye Pix, Samuel Goldwyn Films
The director called this “mayhem porn,” a designation and ideology fitting for the latest from indie director Mickey Keating, Psychopaths. This is an active, obnoxious test of an audience’s appetite for blood and how long they can go without novel ideas like purpose or plot. show more
Though the film acknowledges its performative nastiness at every opportunity—setting its killers and victims in windows, mind ballets, stages, and jail door slits, having them directly address the camera—acknowledgement doesn’t mean subversion, satisfaction or novelty. Even the most dedicated gorehounds should look elsewhere. show more
Keating fails to effectively transmit his love of pushing the horror genre to new heights, with the result that we feel less gleefully complicit than merely voyeuristic. This is a case in which less would definitely have been more. show more
