Radical–atheist Declan (Jonathan
Rhodes) is the amusingly prickly character who turns psycho, Malcolm (David
Horton, Asylum Night) offers a voice
of reason - but to no avail, and Kendra (Calita Rainford, Return To
House On Haunted Hill) is an
‘assisted’ suicide case. Scurrilously indulgent anonymous Internet radio fills
number-crunching break times, as our self-proclaimed hacker heroes crack Vatican security, to read bible code in the 4th
dimension, scan torah pages, and hope to predict the future... any futures.
Director Brad Watson might
be the new Terry Gilliam, or John Carpenter. Weaving together manic dialogues
and crazy genre notions, this recalls 12
Monkeys (without enough monkeys!), and Prince
Of Darkness (sans gory zombies). Spectral visitors appear to be ‘remote
viewer’ spies from a top secret Pentagon lab. Murder via mind–control is just
one SF concept in the flurry of ‘pseudoscience’ gibberish that remains
genuinely fascinating, and highly enjoyable. Despite this movie’s obviously low-budget
production, it is imaginatively unrestrained with an instantly engaging sense
of edginess and a fervently dramatic intensity.
As the miraculously-cured
cripple’s consciousness uploads to a higher reality, and “the paper is burning”
line refers back to destroying the sketch of metaphorical flatland, an
apocalypse seems to face the surviving heroine. The 7th Dimension is heartily
recommended to all fans of strange psychotronic movies!
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