A distinct lack of conviction renders Psych:9 one for the witching hour rather than a primetime Friday night multiplex attraction.
This grizzly if predictable horror places the audience in the unhinged hands of a young woman (Sara Foster), who’s working the graveyard shift at a run down asylum. Thumbing through countless ex-patient records to the hushed chill of the abandoned hospital, she inevitably begins to experience strange goings on that lead her down the darkened path of her own disturbing past.
Cue a flustered performance from Foster and a grunting turn from Michael Biehn as shady snoop Det Marling and you'll quickly see why this is likely to be disregarded as a second-rate sub-genre schlockfest.
To give him his dues director Andrew Shortell does manage to squeeze a few bangs out of a production that’s clearly lacking the big bucks, but a distinct lack of conviction renders Psych:9 one for the witching hour rather than a primetime Friday night multiplex attraction.
