Malcolm McDowell hams it up big time in this entertaining, if dopey, psychological horror/thriller that has him playing a doctor at a mental institution who thinks he's going crazy after new paitent Pamela Gidley (who he attempts to rape but thinks he's killed with an overdose) keeps popping-up everywhere to taunt him.

This one certainly keeps your attention with its campy cast (which includes Clint Howard - yeah!), okay plotting and McDowell's completely over-the-top performance making it enjoyable up until it completely falls apart in the sloppy finale (that almost dropped the rating here to a **).

And while it plays more like a mystery than a horror there's definitely a lot worse out there and where else are you going to see McDowell having sex with a headless body? Irwin Keyes is likeable as the slow-minded paitent who claims to know where Gidley's body is buried and Dean ("Chainsaw" in Summer School) Cameron pops-up in a very amusing cameo as a singing messenger. Decent.

Directed By: Charles Winkler.
Written By: Emerson Bixby, Charles Winkler.

Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Geoffrey Lewis, Priscilla Pointer, Pamela Gidley.