Attic Expeditions (2001)

- written May 2003

Trevor is a patient who has been placed in an asylum. Dr. Ek has taken Trevor under his wing and started a radical sanity experiment designed to bring Trevor back into reality. But instead this “expedition” into Trevor’s mind may be doing more harm than good.           Overall: I gotta say that some of the twists and turns of the film were nice and unique but by the end the film got caught up in it’s own twists and strangled itself to death. Is this story really about the kid laying in a coma on a bed dreaming all of this? Has the kid actually been placed into the radical psychotherapy session and this is the result? Or was the kid simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time and truly innocent of everything? The film’s ending suggests a particular plot but the bottom line is, regardless of how you think “reality” actually was in the film, the other possibilities are simply incongruous with it. I think the film was more of the story going in too many separate directions without a competent writer or director to reign the story in. I though Jeffrey Combs and Ted Raimi did fine jobs of acting, although their characters didn’t really get enough time to fully “flesh out” their characters. And the actor who portrayed Trevor definitely needs more acting classes. That was easily not a good performance at all. I will admit to some film detractors out there the nudity of the film truly began to confuse the story’s atmosphere on what sort of movie this was - nevertheless, the sex in the film was also far from believable. Rent the film to give you something new and different but don’t expect too much from it.           Comparison: Jacob’s Ladder meets Scissors

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