The Attic Expeditions

The Attic Expeditions

The Attic Expeditions
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Actor: Andras Jones, Jeffrey Combs, Seth Green, Ted Raimi, Wendy Robie
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-06-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: First Look Pictures

Movie Reviews of The Attic Expeditions

Movie Review: Esoteric Minds and the Doctors That Break Them
Summary: 5 Stars

The Attic Expeditions, met most unfairly by a storm of rejection, is not a film for the atypical movie-munching masses. In fact, when my friends first saw it they told me that this was a throwaway and that it was something to avoid, but, defying their wishes because of Mr. Combs, I picked it up, watched it, and was thoroughly smitten by the complexity of the product itself. It is this exact reason that I think this film finds many a negative opinions because, unlike most movies, it works through multifaceted means, coupling a rich plot and the stunning array of quality actors with a concept to grasp the attention of those wanting a bit more than blood and the beastly. Typified as "the thinking person's horror movie," and rightly so, it spends a great deal of time addressing the psychologically barred windows within the human condition and adding in a dash of the esoteric to boot.

Here we have an oddly enjoyable experience pitting the incomparable Jeffrey Combs, playing the wonderfully diabolical Doctor Ek, against the psyche of our main character, Trevor Blackburn, a man awakening in a sanitarium after a four year hiatus from reality with only fragments of yesterday to feed from. The good doctor muddles the matter for our memory-devoid lead even more by telling him that he was involved in the bloody murder of his fiancee while participating in, as Blackburn himself supposedly described it before his little 48 month nap, "a magikal ceremony gone awry." Ek then tells Blackburn not to worry about the reluctancy of his mind, that he will be giving him the best care possible by sending him to the esteemed "House of Love" and that his memory may come back to him there. From the moment he steps foot into the House that Ek Built Blackburn can tell something is awry, though, for everything from those strangely patterned walls that induce a feeling of Deja-vu to the introductions to his curiously deranged cohabitants that seem oddly untrustworthy makes him uncomfortable, making him (and the viewer) wonder what's really going on. His dreams further complicate things, showing him a place in the attic with a somewhat familiar trunk in it, one that holds secrets in both reality and within Trevor's mind.

Even in the opening sequences you can tell that this movie is going to have some plot complexities and defy the atypical approach to psychological horror, introducing the viewer to a strange framework from the initial "waking up on the operating table and not knowing who you are or what's going on" stages to the diced bits of memory that Blackburn slowly beings to recall and, finally, to both the build and the ending that keeps you guessing until the end. There are even a few Great Old One connotations sprinkled in there for the fun (and to make the ceremony seem a bit more delicious), further getting my Lovecraftian blood pumping. Its worth watch multiple times if only for the torment of it all.

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