Memory (2006)
A medical reseracher teams with a retired doctor to root around in the genetically stored memories of a a nightmarish predator who abducts and murders young girls.
9 July 1993, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
24 February 1966, Chicago, Illinois, USA
17 December 1972, Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
17 April 1976, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1972, England, UK
17 May 1936, Dodge City, Kansas, USA
11 April 1974, Donalda, Alberta, Canada
31 October 1994, Canada
3 February 1975, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
23 April 1997, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
17 May 1996, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
28 April 1941, Valsjöbyn, Jämtlands län, Sweden
March 26, 2007
A confused, preposterous, overeager mess.
March 26, 2007
The movie draws upon so many influences -- stylized Hitchcock suspense, surreal Asian horror and the Gothic romance of Britain's Hammer Studios -- it's easier to follow the reference points than the plot.
July 14, 2007
There's an intriguing premise buried in MEMORY ... [but] he execution leaves something to be desired.
March 23, 2007
Stylish and twisty, but not clever enough to support its more outrageous plot machinations.
May 21, 2007
Wait, what movie were we talking about again?
June 13, 2007
Considerably better -- and far more intriguing -- than most entry-level horror pics, marrying a retro B-movie setup with the ghostly obsessions of recent Asian extreme cinema.
March 23, 2007
Filled with labored exposition, stilted line readings and the most unconvincing romantic hookup since Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley.
April 01, 2007
The fact that it raises worthy questions concerning experience and recollection, as well as cultural, legal, and political definitions of self with regard to memories%u2014well, that's sort of too bad. They're lost amid forgettable plotty detritus.
March 22, 2007
Adapting his own novel, [director] Davlin seems blessedly unaware of how silly his story is, attacking it with such escalating melodramatic fervor that Memory rises from the disastrously campy to the bizarrely hypnotic.
March 22, 2007
... tosses us so many hints and red herrings that, by the end, we really don't care who turns out to be the killer. All solutions are equally satisfying, which is the same thing as being equally unsatisfying.
March 22, 2007
To what niche does this movie aspire, Michael Crichton sci-fi chiller, Ed Wood camp or neo-'60s grand guignol for former leading ladies of a certain age? You decide.
