Sublime (film)

Infobox Film
name = Sublime


caption = Sublime DVD
director = Tony Krantz
producer = Tony Krantz
Daniel Myrick
Shawn Papazian
writer = Erik Jendresen
starring = Tom Cavanagh
Kathleen York
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Katherine Cunningham-Eves
cinematography = Dermott Downs
editing = Robert Florio
production_company = Raw Feed
distributor = Warner Home Video
released = 13 March 2007
runtime = 113 min
country = USA
language = English
budget = $1,800,000 (estimated)
imdb_id = 0822858
amg_id = 1:385245

"Sublime" is a 2007 horror film directed by Tony Krantz and written by Erik Jendresen.

"Sublime" is the second straight-to-DVD "Raw Feed" horror film from Warner Home Video, released on March 13, 2007. The film stars Tom Cavanagh, Kathleen York, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and Katherine Cunningham-Eves. R-rated and unrated versions have been released on DVD in the United States.

Plot summary

The plot centers on the protagonist George Grieves (Cavanagh), who checks into the Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure only to find horrors await him. Awakening from what was supposedly a simple colonoscopy Grieves is told by hospital staff that due to confusion arising from similar patient names he was mistakenly given a sympathectomy to cure sweaty palms.

As the days tick by Mr. Grieves' post-operative experiences grow ever more bizarre until he finally realizes that he is caught inside a nightmare of his own creation and seems unable to escape or awaken back in the real world. He understands that something has gone wrong in his post-operative recovery which is keeping him trapped in this netherworld of manifestations of all of his worst fears but he understands neither what the problem is nor what, if anything, he can do to awaken from it.

We eventually see his condition from his family's perspective and it appears hopeless. The doctors explain that there was a complication during the colonoscopy which created an air bubble in his bloodstream that eventually reached his brain and caused so much damage that he ended up in an apparently permanent vegetative state. He's been dead to the outside world for 10 long months now and his family is being pressured to remove all artificial means of life support.

Meanwhile back inside his own mind George Grieves is in a desperate losing battle with his own manifested fears and decides that the only way out is to commit suicide in this dream-like state hoping that it will cause his real body to expire and free him from the interminable torment he's had to endure. He manages to leap from a 7th-floor window onto the concrete below, and the final shot is of his real-world body lying in bed with his wife, kids and brother next to him, and closing its eyelids in physical death.

Cast

*"Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter ... P.J.
*"Cas Anvar" ... Dr. Sharazi
*"Paget Brewster" ... Andrea
*"Jordi Caballero" ... Friar Lazaro Mate
*"Tom Cavanagh" ... George Grieves
*"Lilyan Chauvin" ... European Nurse
*"Shanna Collins" ... Chloe
*"Katherine Cunningham-Eves" ... Zoe
*"Kyle Gallner" ... Ned
*"Dan Gerrity" ... The Bald Man
*"Michael Gregory" ... The Face
*"Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs" ... Mandingo
*"George Newbern" ... Frank / PVS Host
*"Bruce Nozick" ... Ira
*" Michelle Page"... Rayven

External links

*imdb title|id=0822858|title=Sublime
*rotten-tomatoes|id=sublime|title=Sublime