The last horror, thriller or suspense film you watched

D-Tox (2002) by Jim Gillespie
I remember the joy of renting this back in 2002 or 2003, along with my dad, as it was not everyday, you would realize or stumble upon an unseen, or never even heard of, new Sly Stallone title. But somehow, D-Tox either flopped big time, or just got drowned by the studio, and I guess the fans who had not seen it at the cinemas, just had to cope with the whole DTV feel, which surrouned several of Sly's releases of the early 00s, and which surely has to be absolute low point, in his career.
Kind of sad, knowing that he finally managed to hit back, with one of his best film/performances in Cop Land, just a few years earlier, and suddenly he dished out Get Carter, Driven, D-Tox, Avening Angelo and appeared in these rather mediocre/bad family comedies or other forgettable european sequels, like one of the Taxi films.

Still, I had not seen D-Tox for almost a decade, and I guess there were a reason to why I still owned a copy of it, but I was not all the sure, when the film started up, and we got immediately thrown into the trashy and cheap looking editing/pacy DTV b-movie serial killer story, which felt like it took forever, before it changed into more of a slasher/horror vibe, with what I guess is the main reason to why I could not get rid of it, in the first place. And that is the The Thing (1982) snowy/paranoia feel, that and quite the impressive cast of character actors. 

Sadly, the plot and characters, are all over the place. It really is a huge mess of a film, where I guess the studio and people behind, did little to ease out the problems, as it feels like several directors and writers has worked on this, picking up where the former ones left off, and tried to fill in some "missing" pieces, and it just went from bad, to worse.
I hate when real talent is wasted, and seeing all these great and likeable people, just thrown into such a lousy movie, that is not how it should be. 
I believe it even had at least one other or alternative title, but it seems like D-Tox is the one, at least in my country it has always went under.

Theres is some neat and gruesome killings, the whole eye-drill part was nasty stuff, but you never once cared for any of the people, not even Sly.
Robert Patrick is of course in asshole and douchebag mode, where Tom Berengers seems a bit too "simple minded" at times, and of course, the killer part is never really a shocking reveal either.
Still, a few of the therapy sessions or group meetings is almost turned into a parody, with all the clichees and sterotypical characters.

It is not among his worst films, but quite a drop from the films he did during the mid towards late 90s, and now I have not seen Get Carter or Driven in years either, but I remembered not being blown away by either.

D-Tox is just a very forgettable and poor attempt on the overdone late 90s Se7en/CopyCat serial killer trend, but is of course not even close of those films, in either quality or entertainment.

The only reason that I end up with a rather "kind" rating, is the link to the The Thing snowy/winter paranoia feel or atmosphere, but surely one I could easily go without seeing, for another decade, or more:

4/10