Film Review – Mindcage

Screenwriter Reggie Keyohara III clearly enjoyed 1991’s “The Silence of the Lambs” so much, he decided to create his own version of the tale. However, instead of a cannibalistic madman behind bars helping a young investigator work through a disturbing case, there’s an artist whose specialty is creating disturbing imagery based on violent paintings. Unfortunately, “Mindcage” isn’t another chapter in the Hannibal Lecter saga, but something far more low-budget and limited in suspense, with director Mauro Borrelli challenged to generate creepiness with material that’s been done before, and much more successfully. “Mindcage” has John Malkovich, who would’ve made a sinister Lecter, but that’s about as far as it gets in terms of creative victory, with the writer’s ambition and concept of dark magic a bit too much for this B-movie to handle. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com