Faces in the Crowd. (2011)
Mila Jovovich stars as a teacher who survives a horrific attack from a serial killer. When she comes around in hospital she realizes she has "face blindness". A condition where facial features change each time she loses sight of them. Meanwhile the police are on the trail of the killer who is again closing in on the teacher.
A real oddity, Faces in the Crowd plays the unusual game of changing everyone's faces as Jovovich sees them, the viewer has to work out along with her who she is actually talking to, her friends, husband etc as they are different people each time she looks away. It must be a quite nightmarish sceneario in real life and many of the nightmares are played out here in a few gripping set pieces. The only person whose face stays constant throughout the film is the investigating cop played by Nip Tuck star Julian McMahon. Why? I won't say just in case anyone decides to check the film out after reading this.
It's not a perfect film by any stretch of the imagination and the concept is probably better than the execution if i'm honest. Much of the film plays out in classic giallo fashion and i'm sure had this been an Italian film released in the seventies starring Nieves Navarro it would be looked on today as a classic of that genre. As it is in the 2010's, it's a barely known direct to dvd thriller that surely deserves a wider audience.
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