Pathology (2008)

Thanks for the memories!

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

"Pathology" goes where most American mainstream thrillers fear to tread. It is thoroughly distasteful, edgy and politically incorrect; it is also extremely well-crafted, with effective story twists, and pulls you in. The director, Marc Schölermann, gives us an ominous, sinister New York, though much of the film was shot in Los Angeles! Milo Ventimiglia successfully breaks out of his relatively clean Peter Petrelli / "Heroes" image and gets his hands dirty, while Lauren Lee Smith is one of the most dangerously exciting women I've seen in any film lately. It's a pretty awesome trip - but not for the easily offended. *** out of 4.

This movie was the biggest waste of time ever !! Not only was the plot and script CRAP the actors were very terrible too!!! I expected so much more from Alyssa Milano. The corny come up with the "good doctor" gone bad is just stupid. Why would he not like Jack at first if in the end he was just gonna buddy up with him. Now I like horror and thriller and crime movie but this was unacceptable. There was no motive, no concept... Just a cheap budget film with amateur sex scenes and gore. I would have rather watched Saw. I expected so much more of this movie and it could have been better if they had a different director and script. This movie had so much potential and I'm so disappointed how it turned out. IF YOU CAN AVOID THIS MOVIE PLEASE DO BECAUSE IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS HOW STUPID IT IS!!!!

Brilliant young medical student Ted Grey (a solid and engaging performance by Milo Ventimiglia) joins the pathology department at a major big city hospital so he can realize his full potential. Ted finds his life and morals turned upside down when he becomes involved with an elite group of decadent individuals led by the cocky and evil Jake Gallo (splendidly played with wicked aplomb by Michael Weston) who concoct various diabolically crafty ways to commit perfect murders and get away with them. Director Marc Scholermann, working from a grimly absorbing script by Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine, offers a genuinely startling exploration of the darkest aspects of the human psyche and man's frightening capacity for shocking extreme brutality and depravity. Moreover, Scholermann relates the compelling story at a constant snappy pace, does an ace job of creating and sustaining an unnerving morbid atmosphere, makes fine use of the often cold and dimly lit locations, and delivers oodles of unflinching graphic gore as well as a sizable amount of hot'n'kinky sex. The sound acting by the capable cast keeps the movie humming: Ventimiglia and Weston both do sturdy work in the leads, with excellent support from Lauren Lee Smith as the sultry, cunning, and duplicitous Juliette Bath, Johnny Whitworth as the smooth Jimmy Cavanaugh, John de Lancie as the no-nonsense Dr. Quentin Morris, Alyssa Milano as Ted's sweet fiancé Gwen Williamson, and Keir O'Donnell as affable wimp Ben Stravinsky. Larry Drake pops up in a small part as a scuzzy victim. The absence of any humor and the overall chilling tone both greatly enhance the picture's considerable unsettling impact. Ekkehart Pollack's glossy cinematography gives the picture an impressive stylish look. The brooding score by Johannes Kobilke and Robb Williamson does the moody trick. A nice'n'nasty surprise.

There is no reason for this film to exist. No logical reason for it to have been made. Money? It grossed $108,662 -- with an 8 million dollar budget. A mega-flop.Did someone actually think people would want to see this?"An ugly film about ugly people doing ugly things" is how one critic described it. That pretty much sums it up!Again, the question is, why? Why was it made? Why would Lakeshore Entertainment -- who I once thought of as somewhat respectable -- pour 8 million bucks into this? Did they really think there were people out there who get into watching corpses being cut apart and cracked open and played with... body pieces and organs being thrown around like gruesome toys, like it's all supposed to be some big goddamn joke?And don't even get me started on the shots on the guy's ass in the first sex scene. I'm all out of vomit bags. They would have loved this at Auschwitz. Probably one of Jeffrey Dahmer's faves. Manson? Probably too gross for him.If this is what cinema has come to after 100 years, all I can say is I want out. Get me the hell out of the madhouse. Get me back to porn, to normalcy, to some decent entertainment that doesn't make me puke... This was worse than a snuff film, way worse. It makes me ashamed to be in the film business. Ashamed to be a human being. Ashamed to be alive.Nice music and photography, though! Just shows you how important those things are to the success of a film.Zero stars. Hopefully the jerk who made this will be dead soon. And boy, how I hope they toss his organs around the room!