The archival audio commentary by Director Brett Leonard, Writer Gimel Everette, and Star Jeremy Slate is a solid conversation about the making of the film. On-Camera Interview with Stars Cheryl Lawson, Jeremy Slate, Co-Writer/Director Brett Leonard and Co-Writer/Producer Gimel Everett. Audio Commentary by Director Brett Leonard, Writer Gimel Everette and Star Jeremy Slate.The 35mm image is gorgeous and without fault. The film shot primarily at night is beautifully transferred to Blu-Ray. The 2K Scan from the Original Camera Negative does wonders for this rarely seen cult horror film. The Dead Pit definitely shows the stylistic promise of the director who would go on and begin the filmic CyberPunk subgenre with The Lawnmower Man and Virtuosity. Additionally, the leeriness of having your main hero in her white bikini briefs and halter top for 75% of the film didn’t fly even then. Where the nicest of nurses and orderlies are of the Nurse Ratchet cruelty as the antidote persuasion. This is a film that has patients being firehosed and lobotomized. The biggest issue is the film’s understanding of mental health has all the cliches and trappings of the 1970s and 1980s. Though even these set pieces either taking place in reality or in fantasy have a twinge of Giallo to them that elevates this from just another indie horror film to something with a bit of style and understanding. What the film and the director excel at are the small hallucinatory visions and nightmares that happen through the course of the film. Leonard’s film is as linear as one can get within the confines of this type of story. It’s up to Jane Doe and fellow patient Christian (Stephen Foster Gregory) to get to the bottom of these stranger and stranger occurrences and for them to end it. Swan seems to care and chalk it up to a “case of the crazies”. After an earthquake, the patients begin to unhinge and revert to almost homicidal actions. Cut to years later and a mysterious patient Jane Doe (Cheryl Lawson) is admitted to the same hospital. Before any more of the “experiments” can occur fellow doctor Jerald Swan (Jeremy Slate) has dispatched him. But the reasons why he is torturing said patients is a mystery we do not really get a chance to investigate. Ramzi is the type of mental health clinician that loves to torture patients. This One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by way of Night of the Living Dead mash-up is fun but with a huge dollop of suspension of disbelief.ĭr. Valorant Episode 7 Act 1 hits theater tomorrow, the 27th of June.The Dead Pit is very of its era in its tone, style, and most of all storytelling. The captured enemy can take a lane of nanowires and die if they get out of the door of the enemy, unless freed. FIRE to release nanowire pulses that capture the first enemy hit.
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