Fresh
Considerably better -- and far more intriguing -- than most entry-level horror pics, marrying a retro B-movie setup with the ghostly obsessions of recent Asian extreme cinema.
Peter Debruge, Variety
Memory
Sometimes memories can kill
2006 · 1h 38m · R
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Bennett Davlin
Overview
Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.
Director and cast
- Bennett Davlin Director
- Billy Zane as Taylor Briggs
- Tricia Helfer as Stephanie Jacobs
- Dennis Hopper as Max Lichtenstein
- Terry Chen as Dr. Deepra Chang
- Deirdre Blades as Alisha Briggs
- Ann-Margret as Carol Hargrave
- Emily Hirst as Bonnie McHale
- Emily Anne Graham as Allison Frost
- Scott G. Anderson as Scott McHale
- Matt Fentiman as William Terrell
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
14%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The movie draws upon so many influences -- stylized Hitchcock suspense, surreal Asian horror and the Gothic romance of Britain's Hammer Studios -- it's easier to follow the reference points than the plot.
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger
Rotten
Filled with labored exposition, stilted line readings and the most unconvincing romantic hookup since Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten
To what niche does this movie aspire, Michael Crichton sci-fi chiller, Ed Wood camp or neo-'60s grand guignol for former leading ladies of a certain age? You decide.
Jan Stuart, Newsday
Rotten
Adapting his own novel, [director] Davlin seems blessedly unaware of how silly his story is, attacking it with such escalating melodramatic fervor that Memory rises from the disastrously campy to the bizarrely hypnotic.
Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly
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