Up first is the DVD debut of writer/director Joshua Nelson’s psychiatrist-slasher flick, Psycho-Therapy, starring Suzanne Johnson (in her feature-film debut) as Victoria, a psychotherapist, who specializes in marriage and relationship issues.
She grows tired, burned-out-weary of her crazy patients ignoring her advice and decides to do something about it. If that were the only problem in her life, we’d have little understanding of her motivations, but she’s also living in a marriage hell of her own with a beast by the name of Benny (Tom Scorzone — Invisible Lines, The Dog Walker), who likes to push her around and cheat on her.
The solution, simple. Invite the worst-of-the-worst, including her husband, to a weekend “therapy retreat” and see if issues can be resolved. She is living on the edge, between her clients and her husband, and with a wicked, black-comedy sense of the absurd, she also invites Antonio (Kenny Ledee — non-actor, who is actually a professional life coach), who has a clown persona by the name of Bobito.
Now Bobito has a history. He can become extremely violent if provoked. You see it, don’t you!! Bobito invited to a couple’s retreat filled with nasty, grotesque and argumentative people … how long, do you suppose, before our clown goes full-tilt berserk?
Also making a DVD bow as an HNN Presents (HorrorNews.net) title is writer/director Steve Reeves’ Keeping Rosy, starring Maxine Peake (The Village, Silk, The Hollow Crown) as Charlotte, a career-oriented business woman, who has a bad day at the office and brings that frustration home with her.
If you are a fan of Edgar Allen Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart,” then you are going to love Keeping Rosy. It is one of those “turning of the screws” kind of horror film as Charlotte, arriving at her fancy London flat in a foul mood — finds to her absolute disgust — the maid, smoking. She’s also, it would appear, been guzzling down the best champagne!!
Charlotte loses it, kills the maid in a fit of rage, and now must cover up the accidental murder. Down the rabbit hole she goes. Each step to cover the initial crime leads to more and more problems. More things to deal with. Hell has arrived in Charlotte’s London flat and it seems that there is no escaping it!!
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