After a mix-up on the job, a federal agent is assigned to a secret prison facility where the inmates have been found to contain a special genetic issue that predisposes them to violence, but the more she stays at the facility to uncover the mystery finds herself potentially coming a suspect in the treatment's functions.
Generally, this was an okay indie effort which has some likable elements. One of the brighter features here is the wacky science at play which provides a lot to like here. The initial background info featured here on the particular gene's presence in violent, psychopathic criminals and the influence it has on society warrant what goes on here involving the secret prison full of convicts and the need to study what's going on using them as guinea pigs starts the film off quite nicely. The fact that he gets sent there to help out as a punishment for his on-the-job behavior and gets driven into the mysterious factors surrounding the inmates as he looks into the strange book and the conspiracy he finds there gives this an overall intriguing setup. This turns the film into a highly enjoyable and sometimes chilling genre effort as the series of visions and hallucinations begin interfering with that investigation. Initially starting as freak images popping out at random intervals, the increasing frequency and intensity that arise with them the longer he stays there and subjects himself to the investigation that takes a slew of twists and turns with the revelations that come about. In several rather fun sequences where he can't be trusted or his visions bring about some rather creepy elements as the series of reveals here simply furthers the exceptionally intriguing main storyline about the effect of the genre on those in the facility which offers up some fun times here. As a whole, these are the enjoyable factors to this one as there are some big factors that bring this one down. One of the main drawbacks here is the seemingly endless stream of twists and turns this takes in the final half it is just completely confusing and not explained at all. Attempting to tie together the hallucinations with a demonic curse affecting those who have the gene, a conspiracy about the prisoners staging a coup, and people we've been following all along turning out to be untrustworthy, dead all along, or much worse just leads to all sorts of confusion trying to sort this one out. Also, some of these revelations can tend to cause this to fall out of genre conventions as so many of these just feel tacked on for a twist instead of taking up the storyline about the strange experiments within the facility which are what end up holding this back.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.
