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A deranged woman with amnesia is hypnotized so that she may explore her own mind. While trying to recover lost memories, she finds that her mind is a nightmare landscape of violence and horror. Recollections of reality mesh with the terrifying otherworldly images, deepening the mystery of this woman's blood-soaked past.
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Autum and her boyfriend Hart are at a party when she gets confronted by two drug dealers. One of them asks her to deliver some narcotics for him. After agreeing to do it, she beats feet to meet up with her boyfriend as they start to head home. The two of them start discussing their living situations and how she wants to move out of the town. When figuring in the money problem, she tells him that she'll be able to get the money. From the drug deal, of course. But she doesn't tell him that.
Going back to how the drug deal began with Kelley (the main dealer) it shows Kelley hanging out in front of a stop sign. Two mobsters pull up and recognize him from the past when he sold them some bad drugs. Instead of just killing him, they decide to mess with him by setting up another deal. Later on when he realizes he can't get the stuff for them, he thinks up a plan to get him out of dodge. Send Autum to them with some fake cocaine and head out of town before the mobsters come looking for him. All seemed to be pretty full proof.
Now boosting to after everything happened, Autum is set up in a mental hospital, discussing everything with a psychiatrist. She begins by telling him how she first met Hart. She was working as a librarian and bumped into him while he was checking out some books. She started talking to him every time he would go in there. After awhile, he noticed she hadn't been around that much. When asking one of the other librarians, he was informed that she was placed in a mental institution. He went and visited her and everything just took off from there.
When Autum is finished telling the story, the psychiatrist has he relax and think of a building. Her building contains six floors and a basement. She's told to go into the basement first. There she comes across a man that she buys a guy from. Just incase it's needed for the narcotics delivery. The first floor took place in Kelley's apartment. She was asked once again to make the delivery, just for good measures. Starting to think about it, she drops some acid and re-agrees to make the delivery.
Starting again in the past, Autum's shown digging around her house for supplies. She calls up Kelley to get a few more facts while Hart was unknowingly ease dropping on her. When she gets off the phone, he comes out of his hiding spot and starts asking who she was talking to. She denies talking to anyone and they begin to argue about it. When he finally gives up and they take off do to their own thing, it's back to the present with Autum and the psychiatrist.
She's told to continue the journey to the second floor. There she finds her best friend, Blue, hanging by a noose. Blue starts going on about how Autum made her life so miserable that she had to kill herself. The next floor contained Autum's next door neighbors. They were insanely happy and chipper, while the husband and wife beat the bajesus out of one another with kitchen utensils (frying pans, steaknifes, what have you). As it doesn't make too much sense, it's by far the best scene in the film.
Fourth floors, a meeting is taking place with Autum and her co-workers to hire an agent for their art projects. Fifth floor, Autum meets a younger version of herself, Summer. Summer's afraid that Autum has come there to kill her. When infact, the quite opposite happens when Autum helps her out, big time. Last floor, the sixth. She meets another version of herself that explains in detail what each of the floors stand for. As Autum starts to piece things together, she returns to the past to get the drug deal over with, which doesn't end pretty.
Half of the movie took place in her building stories, the other in the past with the big drug deal. The dialogue in the past was quite terrible. Mostly when it was Autum and Hart arguing. They both seemed to be struggling to remember their lines on every scene. The building stories were good because everything was taken out of context. Like instead of just Blue hanging from the noose, there was also a tv hanging from one right next to her. Her skin was also rotting away and covered in blood. She was also talking too, that normally doesn't happen to a rotting dead person.
The few gory scenes shown were well done. Though they didn't last for too long. One of them was when Autum was traveling through the building and stumbled upon a guy that was posted up against a wall with his guts and intestines hanging out. She started playing with them for some reason or another, but it looked semi-real. The movie had an odd pace to it. For awhile it would be really interesting, then it would immediately strike down to boring. So it had a slow and fast pace to it. Less dialogue would have had things move along a bit faster and the movie more watchable.
Final Conclusion: 6/10
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#1:
Chad
- added September 4, 2008 at 11:50am
Decent little movie. It had a neat idea driving
the whole thing along, and there were some
surprisingly nice scenes in here - the one with
the hanging lady was damned good. Still, it did
have its flaws, so I think a 5/10 is about right.
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