A befuddled British horror movie from Leon The Pig Farmer director Vadim Jean which benefits from some exotic lighting effects and the glam-factor of Elizabeth Hurley as the scientist whose specialised brain-treatment backfires when it unleashes incarcerated psycho, Keith Allen, into her dreams. On the debit side however there is Craig Fairbrass — the erstwhile London copper — stumbling over his lines, a demented script and the whole caboodle being no more than a low-level rip-off of the Elm Street movies and Silence Of The Lambs. Disappointing.

“Beyond Bedlam” is an ambitious Brit horror schlocker that seems to have mislaid its script halfway. Careening, often stylish meltdown of everything from Thomas Harris shavings to Elm Street and Clive Barker offshoots starts with a bang but trails off into a whimper as the pic abandons all logic in the second half. Genre nuts may want to check out this curio, but pic’s longest lockup will be in the vid bin.