Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Laura Vandervoort | ... | Rose | |
Benjamin Hollingsworth | ... | Brad Hart | |
Ted Atherton | ... | Dr. William Burroughs | |
Hanneke Talbot | ... | Chelsea | |
Stephen Huszar | ... | Dominic | |
Mackenzie Gray | ... | Gunter | |
Stephen McHattie | ... | Dr. Keloid | |
Kevin Hanchard | ... | Dr. Riley | |
Heidi von Palleske | ... | Dr. Elliot | |
Joel Labelle | ... | Trent Taylor | |
C.M. Punk | ... | Billy (as Phillip Brooks) | |
Edie Inksetter | ... | Dr. Beverly | |
Tristan Risk | ... | Nurse Dana / Cynthia Creature | |
Sylvia Soska | ... | Bev | |
Jen Soska | ... | Ellie |
What happens when you realize that to achieve your dreams you have to live a nightmare? Rose is a quiet, demure, unassuming woman in her looks and actions. Her dream is to become a famous designer in the fashion world, but a terrible accident leaves Rose scarred beyond recognition. She seeks out a radical untested stem cell treatment. The treatment is nothing short of a miracle and wallflower Rose turns into the belle of the ball. It all seems to good to be true. She is now everything she wanted to be. But everything in life comes at a price and this new found perfect life is no exception.
I'm not a huge fan of the Soska sisters. Their most acclaimed movie, American Mary, doesn't do anything for me other than show some potential, and I usually don't like remakes, so as you can see, I'm not the target viewer for this film. I must say that it started horribly, terrible directon, terrible make up, the rhythm was completely off, and the performances were at soap opera level (which I blame on the directors). But after a while the movie started getting some momentum and things started getting better, with some genuinely good shocks and some nice make up effects (I especially like the face after the accident), but that was not enough to salvage the movie and it ended on a sour note with a pretty bad ending. Overall, the low budget and bad direction don't allow this to be more than a mediocre experience of a totally unnecessary remake.