Patient Seven turned out to be a
surprisingly enjoyable watch. The premise of the film involves a ‘renowned
psychiatrist’ selecting the most dangerous (and perhaps creepy) patients at a
mental hospital to interview for research purposes for an upcoming book.
If you haven’t done any prior research, you
might be surprised to find that the film is actually an anthology of seven
short horror films. Each has it’s merits, drawing on zombies, vampires, demons,
ghosts, straight up murder and even some dark humour. Some of the segments are
better than others but the real greatness of this movie is the way that all of
the stories are tied together. It seems as if they were created as one cohesive
film instead of coming from separate sources and being tied together
afterwards.
Patient Seven started out a little painful,
with the opening dialogue making me wonder if this would be worth watching.
Once past the annoying introduction of Dr Paul Victor, Patient Seven quickly
gained momentum. Introducing the patients as a way to introduce the individual
short films became an intriguing way to wrap the stories into a neat package
that held my interest until the very end of the film. With a good twist at the
end, Patient Seven is actually somewhat brilliant when it comes to the genre of
horror films.
Worth watching: Definitely
