“Melany Rose” (* out of four) was a disastrously lame horror show about a doctor (Dawn Hamil), reeling from the death of one of her former patients, who takes a job working for a mysterious physician (Steven Marlow) at a military facility conducting strange experiments on maximum-security inmates. Allegedly inspired by MKUltra which were illegal CIA mind-control experiments but seems even more inspired by “The Shining”, “Hellhole”, and also “Shutter Island” although that’s by no means meant as a compliment. By the time you sort out the muddle, film is too far gone for it to matter. Only some striking cinematography from Jarrod Rosenstock towards the end is film’s sole asset.

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