Review: Death's Sonata (2024)
By William Pattison
This time we got a royally rough slasher film....
Dr. William Fredrickson has been practicing psychotherapy
for nearly thirty years. His patients have ranged from pill popping suburban
housewives to death row inmates, but there was only one that left a truly
lasting impression. Charles has suffered from schizophrenia his entire life.
The older he gets the deeper he falls into psychosis. After years of failed
therapy and treatment he retreats to his family's old hunting cabin where he
spends his days hiding from the voices in his head, trying to ignore the call
to action from DEATH, the Grim Reaper himself, who forces him to carry out his
work with the threat of Death taking him instead. As the murder rate rises, Dr.
Fredrickson suspects his former patient, who left his treatment years ago.
Desperate to find Charles, Fredrickson enlists the help of a young patient,
Matthew Wilson, who suffers from extreme manic depression. Matthew sets off to
find Charles and while following the clues given to him, finds himself in the
middle of a police manhunt.
This is not a great slasher film. It is low budget with so
so acting and it really shows it’s lack of budget at times. Still, this film is
not a loss. It is brutal and nasty. The plot is semi interesting and if you can
get past the rough edges and really like hard edge slasher films this might be
the film for you. For me I like good story and character work and this film
lacks that. But if you like something that is more like a snuff film, here you
go. Personally I needed to clean myself after watching this film…
