O'Brian, a cop, has recurrent nightmares with a criminal who almost killed him and was then placed in a psychiatric institution. O'Brian is moving in with his pregnant girlfriend, who is somewhat reluctant to do it because she values her independence. A series of murders in the same style of the aforementioned criminal makes O'Brian face his fears once again.
Variation of The Phantom of the Opera. Here, the poetic notion of someone who has a sublime soul hiding under a monstrous appearance is put aside in favor of monstrosity both inner and outer. The two strands of the plot are allegorically related: the repressed fear of rejection by the loved one manifests itself as fear of an invincible monster. Too bad the film's actual deployment of those ideas is so trivial.
Rating: 30
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