Based on an H.P. Lovecraft short story, the movie follows a psychiatrist, Dr. Derby (Heather Graham),  who is locked in a padded room for viciously killing one of her patients. She tells her insane side of the events to another doctor (Barbara Crampton) in an attempt to win back her freedom. Her claim is that there is some witchcraft causing people to swap bodies and the only way to stop it is to kill the first person before they can swap for the permanent third time.

I liked how it was fairly reminiscent of 1980s Lovecraft films like From Beyond or Re-Animator. There was a little bit of camp, a lot of gore, and enough erotic scenes to require turning the volume down to keep from waking the kiddos. I just wish Heather Graham could act half as good as she moans. 

It missed the mark on production quality with a lot of the scenes looking like they were recorded straight to VHS. It was not consistently horrific or edge-of-seat inducing. The tone kept shifting around from creepy to bizarre to “I can only suspend disbelief so far.” 

The story just seemed to lack any real gravity for the events going on. If you’re going to be surreal, then you need to go full David Lynch or else, it’s going to be a stuttery mess.

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