Headspace (2005)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Andrew van den Houten

Writers:

Steve Klausner (writer)
Troy McCombs (story)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Evil Has Many Faces.

Plot:

25-year-old Alex Borden is handsome, charming, and intelligent. In fact, he may be too smart for his...

Plot Keywords:

Voyeurism | Brother Brother Relationship | Priest | Shot In The Head | Homosexual

Cast

Olivia Hussey	...	Dr. Karen Murphy
William Atherton	...	Dr. Ira Gold
Sean Young	...	Mother
Mark Margolis	...	Boris Pavlovsky
Larry Fessenden	...	Father
Erick Kastel	...	Harry Jellenik
Dee Wallace	...	Dr. Denise Bell (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
Udo Kier	...	Rev. Karl Hartman
Christopher Denham	...	Alex Borden
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Karen Anderson	...	Desk Nurse
Jeanette Arnone	...	Mother (KGB Lab)
David Austin	...	Female Creature
Elwaldo Baptiste	...	Highwater, Guard #1
Teodorina Bello	...	Hospital Cleaning Lady
Stephen Benson	...	Social Worker
Matthew Biancaniello	...	Creature
Richard Blauvelt	...	Slattery, Guard #2
Paul Boritzer	...	Police Officer #1
Dr. R.D. Bowers	...	Doctor #1
Agata Bowman	...	Wheel Chair Patient
John Bradford	...	CT Scan Operator
Guiseppe Cataldo	...	Guard #1 (KGB Lab)
Sigmund Cranmore	...	Additional Park Background
Eli de Mir	...	Scientist
David Denham	...	Orderly
Alexander Drake	...	Additional Park Background
Johnny Egan	...	Additional Park Background (as John J. Egan III)
David Glen Eisley	...	Janitor (as David Eisley)
India Eisley	...	Martha
Nat Gelfinbein	...	Additional Park Background
Raymond Gutierrez	...	Boat Basin Witness
Morris Katz	...	Street Artist
Paula Kelly	...	Alice, Ambulance Driver
Alexandra Klausner	...	Additional Park Background
Steve Klausner	...	Additional Park Background
Vassily Kolganov	...	Additional Park Background
Paul Kurzeja	...	Patient #1
Tamas Lassu	...	Link #1
Michael Locascio	...	Jason's Father
Quinn Lujan	...	Young Alex
Daniel Manche	...	Young Harry
Romy Marqvardt	...	Nurse
Troy McCombs	...	Homeless Outside Church
Pollyanna McIntosh	...	Stacy
Jennifer Mekalonis	...	Nude Model In Painting
Laura Minch	...	Homeless Outside Church
James Morance	...	Additional Park Background
Irwin Nayman	...	Additional Park Background
Carl Peters	...	Patient #2
Mercedes Renard	...	Reporter Connie Sanchez
Regis Schultis Jr.	...	Man In Church
Abe Shainberg	...	Game Spectator
Josh Shainberg	...	Chess Player in park
Leo Shvedsky	...	Guard #2 (KGB Lab)
Santo Silvestro	...	Game Spectator
Paul Sparks	...	Jason
James Spruill	...	Lloyd Carter
Cornelia Szustka	...	Lab Technician
Marc A. Thomas	...	Doctor #2
Craig Tollin	...	Additional Park Background
Robert Tollin	...	Additional Park Background
Robert Tonino	...	Stacy's Boss
Andrew van den Houten	...	Charlie, Ambulance EMS
Carola van den Houten	...	Bag Lady (scenes deleted)
Tatiana Vidus	...	Model
Yan Vizinberg	...	Link #2
Mark von Kreuter	...	Mark, Ambulance Orderly
Todd Walker	...	Game Spectator
Patrick Wang	...	Sammy Chung
Justin Wheeler	...	Police Officer #2
Timo Wild	...	Resident
Holly Wilson Miller	...	Attending Nurse (scenes deleted)
Matthew Wolinski	...	Guard #3 (KGB Lab)
Brandon Xuereb	...	Additional Park Background

MPAA:

Rated R for strong horror violence/gore, sexuality and language.

Runtime:

89 min | 95 min (International version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA | Germany:18 (unrated version) | USA:R (cut)

Filming Locations:

Katonah, New York, USA

Company:

Modernciné

Goofs:

Continuity: When Alex visits the artist's apartment the first time for the chess rematch, the timer's button is in a different position when they sit down than when they actually start the game.

Soundtrack:

AVE MARIA

If ONL:Y I had read MORE of the comments about this film FIRST...

Where do I start...??? Very simply: Decent concept that could have been very intriguing EXCELLENT beginning to set the pace of the film I really like chess, so I thought that would be a neat added element to the film... GEEEEEEEEZ...

TOTALLY disintegrates into an EXTREMELY poorly written, directed, and acted film. PERIOD.

Very sad too; I REALLY, REALLY wish I had read more of the comments and especially the message board MUCH more carefully. Usually I do, but I musta REALLY screwed up on this one : ) I can excuse a film completely for being aimless and even pointless, ***IF*** it at least has style, mood, and is done with SOME bloody competence. It is SO dang funny how some of these film makers snag a bunch of these 'B' actors whom we'd immediately recognize and then they have a combined screen time of about 8 minutes. When will I learn... I felt sorry for Sean Young; she had all of, what..., 3 minutes. Sad...

Anyway, by the end, if you have ANY vestige of intelligence left (which is bloody unlikely) this is one of those cases where you will TRULY be sitting there stunned wondering what the HELL you just did with the last 90 minutes or so...

I'm serious here. Believe me on this one...

I'm not normally hateful or unforgiving when it comes to film and Especially the 'Horror' genre, honestly. But this one fails on almost EVERY level.