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What matters here is what is real and what is the figment of a sick imagination.

With a post-apocalypse setting - deserts, service corridors, junk yards at night - the film lacks the vision of Silent Running.

Del Toro and Amalric with contrasting acting styles make a magnetic duo yet the ponderous detail of the therapy occasionally bogs down the film, so much so that even the two actors cannot surmount it completely.

A nightmare in a damaged brain, using an imagination no more, nor less, disturbed than our own.

No amount of experience watching modern slasher films will inure you to the fear that Hitchcock could instill with his masterly pacing and restraint.

One of the things that makes Psychobitch stand out is how flawed both its principals are.

Brilliantly written and constructed.

The characters work well...but there’s never quite enough energy to events.

In remake heaven, where all clones meet, the only question is 'Why?'

Doesn’t really pass the bar as anything other than as an indulgence for the fan who has seen the whole of the main story.

Director Reg Traviss attempts to evoke twisted classic chillers from British cinema past, combining an off-kilter and edgy energy reminiscent of more contemporary horror fare with a classic British sensibility which draws on the old ‘Hammer House of Horro

The major problem is a bland script. There's next to nothing to laugh at.

McDonagh just about makes this ultra violent meta train ride all hang together.

Wigon’s film is arch as a proscenium from the start