Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Marva-nova
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Dana
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Paul Magne Haakonsen
At some point I have got to stop watching these pseudo-horror movies with low ratings on IMDb. But I doubt it will happen, because there is just something alluring about these particular movies. Perhaps it is because they are so campy and cheesy that they might actually be good."Headspace" wasn't one of those movies. It was just plain downright bad. Not even cheesy enough to be funny to watch.I managed to sit through a whopping 35 minutes of this movie, which can best be described as pure pointlessness, before I simply gave up out of frustration with how boring and uneventful the movie was.The storyline was rather incoherent and made very, very little sense in any way. As such, it was quite an ordeal to sit through even just the 35 minutes that I managed to muster. So hats off to those who actually see the movie through to the end. It was a particularly boring movie, because nothing, and I do literally mean nothing, happened.I was initially lured in by the movie's cover/poster and the fact that this was supposed to be a horror movie. The only thing scary about it was how uneventful and slow paced it was.The acting, at least from what I witnessed in the 35 minutes, was as to be expected from a movie such as this, so you can take it for better or worse. At least you know what you will be getting into.There is no chance of me returning to finish watching the rest of "Headspace", because the movie just never appealed to me in any way. And I can't claim to have any interest in the storyline whatsoever.
fedor8
Prologue: Sean Young goes absolutely nuts (art imitating real life) which quickly lands her in trouble with her husband who has very little understanding for wives who suddenly start acting like blood-sucking vampires. Later on, their two sons are auctioned off to the highest foster-home bidder by their father. He senses that they aren't quite normal. Yes, one of them even wears nail-polish 15 years later. Dad was right. Weg mit dir!The beginning credits start, and then they finally end. First scene: a brilliant chess player is making money by beating everyone in sight, first an Oriental with pink nail-polish, and then Alex with black nail- polish. You can say what you want about this muddled TV/straight-to- video movie, but you can't say it isn't original: two gay guys with nail-polish playing chess one after another is a cinematic novelty. This had never been featured in any movie before.From here HP plods on, without much rhyme or reason. And yet Alex's nail-polish still doesn't wear off.To be frank, at this point (around the middle) I had to go out and get a hamburger, so I missed around 15 minutes. A mind-shattering loss to what would have been a far richer life for me, to be sure, but somehow I managed to recover from this major blow and bravely ploughed on. I just wish the movie had ploughed on as well, but it didn't. It still just plodded along. And Alex's nail-polish still wouldn't wear off.Suffice it to say Alex suffers from a mysterious condition called "increasing IQitis". This means that his intelligence grows so quickly that he can literally feel his "brain getting bigger". Sort of the opposite of what has been happening to Sean Penn since his birth.So amazingly smart is Alex supposed to be, and yet who does he go to consult? A Catholic priest. How very wise a decision. The priest gives him a Bible and tells him to pray: just the kind of advice I'd give to a stark-raving madman with a 545 IQ.The priest is played by none other than Udo Kier himself. Udo "They- hire-me-for-weird-short-roles/cameos-in-mostly rather-bad-B-movies" Kier. Udo "They-must like-my-supposedly-weird-face/persona" Kier. Kier is about as unique as an abortion sub-plot in a U.S. TV soaper. Not exactly the Second Coming of Klaus Kinski, I'm afraid…Apparently, there are not enough Catholic priests in New York (which has a sizable Italian and Latino population) so that the city has to import German ones. Udo's thick accent leads one to suggest that he'd gotten off the boat just a day earlier. Either that, or he uses the same spiffing vocal coach that Arnold Schwarzenegger has been employing (I'm not making this up). Udo loses face by appearing in this movie – if that's possible. And then he literally loses his face when a demon tears him into tiny beats.Yes, a pig-faced demon.At the end, everything ends on a tragic note, which was to be expected. Perpetually unlucky Alex arrives only minutes after his long-lost brother (older or younger? Sorry, wasn't paying that much attention, hamburger and everything…) blows his brains with a pistol. These two had last seen each other when they were around 12 and 9 respectively, and yet somehow neither had managed to recognize the other. Silly.In the last scene, Alex is tied to a bed in a lunatic asylum, while Olivia Hussey transforms into another one of those pig-nosed demons. What a cop-out ending.There was also some rather quickly/vaguely mentioned stuff about secret Soviet experiments regarding metaphysical phenomena. But the nail-polish STILL didn't wear off. Perhaps they should have just stuck Alex into your typical nu-metal boy-band and never turned this messy script into a movie
siderite
This isn't a horror movie, really, more like a thriller. You are wondering all the time what is going on as the plot expands in several directions. But in the end, something obscure happens, nothing makes any sense, the characters that expanded the plot start dying due to latex monsters and the ending is pathetic.It is just another example of a movie starting well and ending disastrously. I mean, there was some gore, but without any need for it. It had a complex plot, but then it just slimmed abruptly when people started dying. There is some mystery, but it is never explained. There is no conclusion or real point of the entire story.Bottom line: a failure on almost every level and that , ironically, because it started well on so many levels.
Mr_Ectoplasma
"Headspace" is a strange little creature feature that I decided to give a rent when I saw it at the video store. The film centers around Alex Borden, a normal guy in his mid-twenties living in New York City. While Alex may appear to be normal, but his life is slowly spiraling out of control. After meeting a mysterious artist/chess-master, Alex begins to gain more and more knowledge and becomes smarter and smarter, to the point where it's no longer for his own good. Something is causing him to tap into a different region of his brain, and he suffers from horrible headaches and night terrors because of it. After being referred by Dr. Bell (Dee Wallace-Stone, of "The Hills Have Eyes" and "E.T".), Alex visits a psychologist, Karen (the lovely Olivia Hussey, of "Black Christmas" and "Romeo and Juliet"), who studies patients similar to Alex. But soon after, people around Alex begin to die in horrible ways, all murdered by a savage, unseen beast. Is any of it related to Alex's troubled childhood? Or what really is happening to him?I mainly decided to rent this film because, 1) the cover art was creepy, and the back of the box had nothing but praise for the film, and 2) Olivia Hussey and Dee Wallace-Stone were listed in the cast. While the film wasn't a complete waste, it wasn't wonderful either. The storyline to the film may sound interesting, and I thought it did myself. While it is interesting, it's also a little bit cloudy and some things are far too unclear, left without any explanation at all. The problem with this is that these elements in the story need some type of explaining, because otherwise they make little to no sense. The plot is a little convoluted, but this film does have some good offerings too. The cinematography is nice and stylish, and the creature in the film is presented realistically. It's normally difficult to make a monster movie where the monster itself is presented in a way that doesn't throw all logic out the window, and this film succeeds at that. The monster isn't too overdone and it's believable enough.There is quite a good amount of gore in the film as well, there's more than plenty of monster mutilations to please all of those gore hounds. The film boasts a mildly impressive cast, including two well-known actresses in the horror genre. The lead, Christopher Denham, who plays Alex is convincing in his role as the troubled young adult. Dee Wallace-Stone has a fairly small role as a doctor, and is also excellent in her short on screen time. And Olivia Hussey, who starred as the lead in my favorite horror film of all time, "Black Christmas", plays Alex's doctor/friend. She is given very little to work with, but she is also wonderful in all of her scenes (which also wasn't a whole lot, I would have liked to see her a little more often). The film's surprise ending caught me off guard, and while it took me a minute to understand what had happened, it was a fitting way to conclude the story.All in all, "Headspace" is a just about average monster movie. It's not too overdone and is far from being corny, but the plot becomes a little cloudy at times and is hard to follow on some occasions. It does boast some very good actors though, and plenty of monster-murders for anyone who enjoys a good creature feature. I'd say it's about average, but I have to admit it was better than I was expecting. Trust me, there's much worse out there. Worth a rent if you're into this kind of stuff. 5/10.
