The staff of a psychiatric facility are being taken out by a serial killer who is more than human. He looks like a blue cat-man dressed up like a depressed businessman who has had one too many libations and I think he can suck out souls on top of being able to teleport and harness some kind of blue energy. A murdered girl’s coworker hires on an ex-cop who is now a private detective to look into things because she’s not satisfied with the current investigation and reporting. The private eye is a schlubby addict who could definitely use the work. He’s also not great at dialogue delivery but that may be an English comprehension issue so I won’t fault him there, this language is complicated and dumb enough without some loser who watches shit horror needling in on it. Although he is played by the film’s writer, so it may be a vanity thing and in that case; shame on you (but also thank you). Private Dick David Evans digs into the case as more employees of Kingdom Psychiatric Hospital get their life force sucked out of their stupid mouths by the glowing-eyed blue cat-man. David is given unfettered access to the hospital by the head doctor and teams up with the head of security (his ex who originally hired him on) Maria Mitchell to find the culprit. The victims have Arabic etchings on them that point towards some kind of vengeance being in the works. David stumbles through the investigation, talking to a slew of people who may have scored their roles by being present at the coffee shop the director was grabbing some java from and also keeps seeing some dude who looks like a discarded SFX test from Sleepwalkers. David just assumes he’s hallucinating him and it may have something to do with his disgraceful last case as a police officer. Awkward melodrama, which could have worked with better performers but probably would have been annoying anyways, takes up a chunk of the brief runtime but there is a hilarious flashback to the shooting of a child, some truly subpar fight choreography and a monster that would have fit well on a throwaway episode of Buffy. They tried and they failed but I respect that. I also have a sick fascination with silly vanity projects, so I probably enjoyed this more than I should have.
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