A Swedish horror movie/thriller from the director of EVIL ED.
The story: A woman checks into a hotel and is killed. Then her sister comes looking for her and now will be stalked by the same killer.
Was it good?
No. But it wasn't horrible either. It just wasn't good. The movie has a very PSYCHO feel, what with the weird guy running a hotel alone and the girl getting killed (although not in the shower) and then someone coming looking for the dead girl. It's hard to get more PSYCHO than that. This movie, however, is no PSYCHO. That movie had interesting characters -- the girl who steal money and goes on the run, the nice guy with the mother who turns out to have a strange and twisted psychological problem. This movie has none of that. Only the concept remains and everything interesting beneath it is gone. I don't even really know why the movie is called INSANE. Of course the killer is insane, but then aren't all of these serial killers insane? The movie doesn't play with sanity in any interesting way, and even with the two sisters being nearly identical there isn't anything playing with repetition or deja vu.
I guess the more impressive thing is that the movie isn't just garbage. It's watchable and has some interesting parts, but the lack of depth means everything interesting leads nowhere, building up to a climax that feels almost tacked on.
*** AVOID ***
I live in Sweden and i liked this movie very much, i think that this movie should be for Sweden exclusivly, cause if you compare to other Swedish horror movies, this movie is really, really good, but if you compare to modern professional American, French or Spanish horror, its really bad. For the most, Sweden makes the worst horror movies in the whole world in my opinion, don't expect Swedish horror movies to be like "Let the Right one In" which is one of the very, very few Swedish horror movies which isnt made by amateurs, i can understand that you Americans and Brits think that Swedish horror movies is good, but thats just cause you only get to see the good Swedish movies, the bad Swedish horror movies stays in Sweden and that for a good reason.
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