Viewed – 05 July 2008  DVD

Lindsey Lohan started out as the next-big-thing teen actress, but has fallen from grace with a rocky personal life, weight loss scares and a frequency with wild nights out.  Shame because in the Heathers-wannabe flick ‘Mean Girls’ and the Disney comedy remake ‘Freaky Friday’ she seemed a more than likable actress with pleanty of personality.

In this low-rent horror we get to see her acting muscles truly stretched as she plays the twin roles of Aubrey & Dakota, one a clean-cut strate-A student, the other a sleazy chain-smoking stripper – both whose lives are turned upside down by a serial killer.  At first I thought this was going to be a straight forward gutsy girl gets kidnapped by a killer, and fights back thriller, but am happy to report it turned out to be something much more interesting – and very disturbing.  You see, Aubrey is kidnappped and eventually found then believes she is really this Dakota person, and that the real Aubrey is still in the hands of the killer, and begins to experience her injuries, with phantom cuts and bleeding, even though by this stage she’s already lost an arm and a leg.  This is dark, grousome stuff indeed, but Lindsey Lohan is very beleivable in her split-personality role, and comes off convincingly as both the good girl and the bad girl.

If you want a horror with a bit more imagination than most, some good effects and a twisty story then this certianly does the job, even if it is a bit overly-complicated at times and the final pay-off is lame.

Verdict:  3 /5