Every now and then, a film will come out of nowhere and, no matter how many warning signs shout out at you, the curiosity nagging at the back of your head, will not be satisfied until you have subjected yourself to the said film.

For me, Psychosis is one of those films. The fact that its star is Charisma Carpenter, of Buffy and Angel fame, was not enough. The fact every other review I read pretty much hated the film, was again, not enough. The fact I had never heard of the director, Reg Traviss, only fuelled my curiosity.

I decided to check out what others had said on imdb.com. I think my mind was made up when I stumbled upon one review, which simply said "From the first five minutes, you know it is gonna be a stinker". That was it, I had to watch this film.

Starting off with a scene that sees a mad man offing a bunch of happy hippy campers in various grisly ways, it becomes clear that Psychosis is not afraid to leave any cliché unturned.

Skip forward a few years and we are introduced to Susan, a troubled American author who is relocating from the Big Smoke (London), to a nice big, creepy house somewhere in the countryside.

Moving with Susan is her wooden, selfish luddite of a husband, David.

Quite why Susan married David is beyond me. He treats her fairly well but David is devoid of any emotion or charm. It's hard to work out if this portrayal of him is intentional or not, as it's Paul Schulfor's debut feature film performance. If you are not familiar with Mr Schulfor, he is mainly famous for being an underpants model.

Anyway, pretty soon Susan starts to have strange visions and once again, her emotionless husband David begins to suspect all is not right in her head (she's got previous by all accounts, although, this is never explored any further). And, instead of listening to her, he just assumes she is as mad as a box of frogs.

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These visions start off pretty mildly. At first, she keeps seeing this hoodie in her garden kicking a football about - but every time she goes out to confront him, the little scrote is not to be seen.

After a while, they get a bit sinister - not only does she start to see a blood-stained man with a knife strolling through her house, she witnesses a hairy hillbilly going at it with his missus in the middle of the woods (much to his delight) and he later flashes his meat and two veg at her. Turns out, this is her gamekeeper and, according to her wooden husband, “he's a good bloke”. Small world, huh.

Somehow or another, she ends up having dinner with the gamekeeper during one of the more tenser moments of the film, while her husband is away gallivanting in the Big Smoke.

Just when I thought this film couldn't get any sillier, Justin Hawkins from The Darkness and "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" fame randomly turns up and, well, I'm not sure what purpose he serves. As far as I can tell, he plays a tattoo-laden rock star who happens to wear too much make up, which, if we are being honest here, is no real stretch for him really, is it?

If you haven't gathered by reading this - Psychosis is very dumb film and, while writer-director Reg Traviss does a good job in providing the odd jump and scare, the pacing is all over the place and the ending is, ultimately, unsatisfying. Whilst it ties up all the loose ends, it just feels like a bit of an anti-climax. There is almost next to no character development and no real antagonist, meaning by the time the film gets to its twist, I just didn't care.

Nevertheless, the fact the film is flawed didn't take away the fact that I actually quite enjoyed watching it, probably not for the reasons the makers intended.

Cliché ridden, poorly acted and somewhat predictable, Psychosis is a trashy film of the highest calibre.

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