Plot
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage...

Release Year: 2009

Rating: 4.8/10 (469 voted)

Director: Charles Adelman

Stars: Mark Thompson, Mark Pellegrino, Teri Polo

Storyline
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all too-familiar flesh masks that the killer leaves on the faces of his victims. He must face his own demons along with the killer to save his small eroding existence.

Cast:
Mark Thompson - Russell Spivey
Mark Pellegrino - John Tyler
Teri Polo - Amanda Richardson
Kevin Pollak - Dr. Simmons
Dwight Yoakam - Sandy
Jere Burns - Jeffrey
Greg Cromer - Jacobs
Lyman Ward - Police Captain
Ken Howard - Sheriff Sedgewick
Rob Moran - Mr. Spivey
Jaime Alba - Jamie Rossi
Deborah Carson - Rebecca Tyler
Monika Jolly - Tanner, Georgia
Raymond Ma - Motel Owner
Lisa Pescia - Christine Pullman

Taglines: Killers Are Not Born ... They Are Made

Official Website: Official site |

Release Date: 3 Jan 2009

Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office Details

Budget: $3,500,000 (estimated)

a bit above average

Rating: 5/10

I am also a bit of a sucker for these types of movies, but I am also aware that many of these are fairly derivative and unimaginative (or in some cases a little too convoluted).

This was a slightly better than average entry into the genre, although not ground-breaking or anything. The relationship between Amanda Richardson and Russell Spivey (Teri Polo and Mark Thompson) was fairly tedious and underused. It seemed that the writers thought their relationship would be interesting, started writing it but then ran out of ideas for them.

The Amanda Richardson character was fairly underused throughout the movie to be honest.

Russell Spivey the alcoholic profiler / detective is also a bit of a cliché which I could do without seeing again - it is a bit of lazy story telling. Writers: "Lets make our detective interesting by giving him guilt about some past perceived failing that drives him to alcoholism", Actors: "But hasn't that been done a 1000 times before?", Writers : "Lets make it 1001" But apart from these criticisms of some of the more generic aspects of the writing and the slightly underused Teri Polo the film was relatively enjoyable. The acting was reasonably strong and the direction performed it's function. The "twist" in the story was OK, I had got the "twist" about 1/2 way through, but I had got the responsible party themselves wrong so it was a half-surprise.

Anyway - if you are fan of this genre - don't expect something as good or original as Seven or Silence Of The Lambs, but there are many worse entries than 2:13

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