Film Review – Compulsion

Writer/director Neil Marshall keeps making movies, but few of them have worked, especially in recent years. He’s committed to collaborations with his girlfriend, actress Charlotte Kirk, and the pair return to screens with “Compulsion,” which once again endeavors to celebrate Kirk’s thespian abilities and physical fitness. This time, Marshall trades the action-minded ways of “The Reckoning,” “The Lair,” and “Duchess” for an erotic thriller of some type, using his love of giallo entertainment to inspire another descent into masked killers, lusty characters, and poor police work. “Compulsion” hopes to generate heat and chills as the production piles on nudity and graphic violence, but there’s a limit to all the bad acting and screenwriting one can take, and that point is reached early in the effort. Marshall is trying to go all De Palma with the offering, but he’s mostly Wiseau in this clunky, exceedingly lifeless film. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com