Friday, June 23, 2023

Pathology (2008) Marc Schölermann.

While I avidly loathed all the asinine characters, this thankfully enabled me to appreciate their inventively grisly demises with additional relish! Glacial, sadistic, and just plain nasty, this stylishly mounted, surgically sinister shocker is not without some macabre merit, and the stunt casting of Dr. Giggles was a most welcome flourish of irony! Fundamentally a lurid, jarringly humourless exercise in misanthropy, I was able to make the viewing experience moderately more amusing by pretending Pathology was a ill conceived Scrubs Halloween special. While sordidly sucking at the same tortured teat as vapid splatter-fests Saw and Hostel, director, Marc Schölermann is a more visually engaging filmmaker, and at least attempts to probe a little deeper into the warped human psyche than horror himbos, James Wan & Eli Roth. For me to engage with a film there must be at least one protagonist I can relate/empathize with, as this smugly sociopathic school of prima donna Patrick Bateman's left me colder than their beloved dead!








 

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