Headspace (film)
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| Directed by | Andrew van den Houten |
| Screenplay by | Steve Klausner William M. Miller |
| Story by | Troy McCombs |
| Produced by | Marius Kerdel William M. Miller Andrew van den Houten |
| Starring | Olivia Hussey William Atherton Sean Young Mark Margolis Dee Wallace Stone Udo Kier |
| Cinematography | William M. Miller |
| Edited by | Elwaldo Baptiste |
| Music by | Ryan Shore |
Production company | Modernciné |
| Distributed by | Freestyle Releasing |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Headspace is a 2005 psychological horror film directed by Andrew van den Houten. The screenplay was written by Steve Klausner and William M. Miller, based on a story by Troy McCombs. It starred Christopher Denham, Olivia Hussey, William Atherton, Erick Kastel, and Sean Young, with cameos from Dee Wallace, Mark Margolis, and Udo Kier.
Plot
Years after watching his mother die, Alex, a young man struggling with migraines, is hospitalized following an encounter playing chess with an strange man in the park. There he discovers his intellect begins growing at a supernatural rate as he begins hallucinating apparitions, while murders are occurring around New York City.
Cast
- Christopher Denham as Alex Borden
- Olivia Hussey as Dr. Karen Murphy
- William Atherton as Dr. Ira Gold
- Sean Young as Mother
- Erick Kastel as Harry Jellinek
- Pollyanna McIntosh as Stacy
- Paul Sparks as Jason
- Mark Margolis as Boris Pavlovsky
- Larry Fessenden as Father
- Dee Wallace as Dr. Denise Bell
- Udo Kier as Reverend Karl Hartman
- Patrick Wang as Sammy Chung
- James Spruill as Lloyd Carter
- Mercedes Renard as Connie Sanchez
Release
Headspace: The Director's Cut was released via cable and video on demand in North America on April 24 and via DVD & Blu-ray on 19 June 2012.[1]
Critical reception
Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times:
Not that it's a bad movie, particularly; it has all the necessary gore and beasties and gratuitous nudity that this not-very-demanding genre demands... None of this is very scary, but William M. Miller's cinematography and those big-name cameos keep it interesting.[2]
From TV Guide:
While neither especially chilling nor particularly unpredictable, van den Houten's debut, scripted by Steve Klausner from a story by Troy McCombs and William M. Miller, aspires to little more than the usual stalk-and-slash clichés, it features a number of nice touches, including a knowing nod to H. P. Lovecraft's classic short story Pickman's Model and a slew of familiar faces in small roles, such as Udo Kier as a spooky priest and Dee Wallace-Stone and William Atherton as baffled doctors.[3]
References
- ↑ Woman, The (April 23, 2012). "Headspace: The Director's Cut Heading to VOD on April 24th; DVD to Follow June 19th". Dreadcentral.com. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
- ↑ Genzlinger, Neil (February 15, 2006). "Headspace – Review – Movies – New York Times". Movies.nytimes.com. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
- ↑ "Headspace Review". Movies.tvguide.com. April 8, 2011. Archived from the original on June 4, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2011.