The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007)

The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007)
Director: Dario Piana
Writer: Brendan Hood
Cast: Mike Vogel, James Bartle, Andrew Buchan, Jaime Murray, Christina Cole
Ian Stone is murdered each day by paranormal entities, only to wake up in a new life the following day and experience being murdered all over again. The only constant is Jenny, but it is Jenny whom the murderers are really after…her death will force Ian to turn back into one of them.

'Another After Dark Horror Festival film this one being a glossy entertaining reality bending romp. Ian Stone (Mike Vogel here doing a very likeable hero role) is thrown into a new life daily as punishment for killing a harvester (they have the looks of Harry Potters Dementors and are basically creatures that live among humans sucking off our fear). His only light and maybe way out of this nightmare is the fact he's thrown into these lives with his love Jenny (Christina Cole). The deaths are done very well though more aimed towards action than gore, the new reality's Ian wakes up in are fun and varied even though we've seen plot themes like this before in films like Matrix, Hellraiser, Butterfly Effect & Dark City it's still a damn good horror film. Jaime Murray steals the whole movie as the hot looking lead rogue harvester she's probably best known for her role in British television series Hustle, but she's fast becoming a scream queen having appeared earlier this year in Botched and now in US televisions serial killer show Dexter. The films direction by Dario Piana is good a little fight club era David Fincher feeling as it cuts from glossy shot clean office scenes to murky worlds of junkies or trippy hospital settings. Putting its slight déjà vu feel aside it manages to stand on its own feet as an entertaining above average action horror.'

(Rated 7½ out of 10)