Paddy Breathnach, director of the sparkling 1997 Irish crime comedy I Went Down, delivers a derivative and titter-inducingly weak slasher movie in Red Mist. Set in an unnamed American metropolis but filmed in Belfast and starring Scottish, Irish, and English actors all doing horrific American accents, it purports to tell the story of a coma patient called Kenneth (Andrew Lee Potts) who takes violent out-of-body revenge on the attractive medical students who poisoned him. It’s hard to know which is worse — the half-cocked attempt at making a glamorous studio-style slasher film in Belfast with little production budget, or the self-loathing presumption that the American setting and accents would somehow make the movie more palatable, and more effective.
18, 85mins