“Open 24 Hours” (**1/2 out of four) was an alluring but overdone horror thriller about a sweet young girl (Vanessa Grasse) who is on parole for killing her abusive boyfriend who takes a job at an all-night gas station where her previous mental health issues of paranoid schizophrenia return. When she has visions of being stalked by a mad slasher, are they real or are they symptoms of her psychosis? Colorful cinematography and direction and Grasse’s empathic performance hold you in its eerie grip for a while but story becomes overly cerebral and unpleasant as it goes way overboard with sensationalism and violence in its second half. A good attempt by writer/director Padraig Reynolds in a Kubrickian homage to “The Shining” that falls apart in its stretch.

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