A group of college students volunteer to take part in a clinical drug trial for a new experimental serum that enhances one's memory. Complications ensue when sensitive test subject Anna (a fine and appealing performance by Virginia Gardner) starts seeing nightmarish visions of people's immediate brutal deaths.

Director/cowriter D.J. Viola relates the enjoyable and engrossing story at a snappy pace, ably crafts an eerie and unsettling mood with a strong underlying feeling of dread and doom, makes nice use of the bleak wintry landscape (the plot unfolds during a fierce blizzard),and generates a good deal of tension. The excellent acting by the sturdy cast helps a lot: Nathan Kress as the amiable Den, Kirby Bliss Blanton as the spunky Kristen, Ryan Higga as the wisecracking Scratch, Mark Furze as the cocky Marcus, Ethen Peck as the deranged Pascal, William Mapother as strict by-the-book scientist Dr. Jerrems, Mark Rolston as the hard-nosed Dr. Layton, and Christopher Allen as no-nonsense orderly Curtis. A neat fright flick.

I was thoroughly engaged with this movie untill the final 10 minutes where it seems the writer just gave the script to a 3 year old and told them to finish it. It's truely a shame too because this movie is much better than the score it currently has and i highly recommend it to those wanting a solid and interesting thriller.

The acting in this movie is good and the story is also good, i found myself wanting to know more. Sadly some Visual effects are not quite as good but one thing this movie does well is its pacing. Plot details and reveals happen just frequently enough to keep you interested and guessing what might happen at the end...

Sadly the ending is the weakest point of this movie. There is several ways the conclusion could of played out and i would of been happy with a somewhat guessable cliche ending but we are treated to neither. It builds up superbly and completely fizzles out to nothing at the end. I recommend creating a different ending in your mind from the infomation the movie gives because it would increase this movie from a 6/10 to a 8/10.

Big Pharma is experimenting with memory enhancement drug A9913 for possible use with Alzheimer patients. They pay college kids $2,000 to spend the weekend at their facility with half getting the real drug, the other half placebo. The film follows Ann (Virginia Gardner) who has good ESP to begin with. The drug has side effects as Ann and others see the future which is grim considering there is a killer loose at the facility...snowed in...phones down. It starts out like a pretty good sci-fi film, introducing characters, who for a change, I didn't hate. However once we get to seeing the killings and trying to outsmart the killer, the meat of the film, it comes loose with characters running around like a chicken with its head cut off, adding boring to confusion. On the plus side, it wasn't a hand held camera. Ari streaming has it available for free app downloading.

Guide: No sex or nudity