"Fogg"

Since the horrors of H.H. Holmes, America's first recorded serial killer who killed over an estimated 100 people (the official count is still uncertain to this day) before being caught and hung, we've had a fascination of the mind of someone with psychological and sociopathic behavior in our effort to understand what makes their minds so different than ours. While it is believed there is no cure for sociopathic behavior, we strive to understand their minds in the hopes a cure can be reached, but at price might it come?

Matthew Fogg (Ryan Wortherspoon) looks like a handsome, charismatic business man on the surface, but as he narrates his story, you find that beneath the surface is an emotionless and calculating mind that spends most of his time trying to come off acting like everyone else, while hiding his dark secrets.
One night, he meets a temp worker Sarah O'Shea (Sarah Shoemaker) for drinks and the evening leads back to her place where she talks about her family including her neuroscientist sister. Two things soon occur, one being he rapes and murders Sarah staging it to look like a suicide and his fascination with meeting Sarah's sister Maggie O'Shea (Hayden Blane, credited as Hayden Wyatt). Arranging himself to end up in the hospital, Maggie finds that his mind is ideal for becoming a candidate for a new treatment under testing stages for those who lack emotion. In the weeks to follow, Fogg goes along with the program and suddenly finds himself feeling for the first time in his life. Yet without knowing how to cope with them, they start to cause havoc on his mental state. Meanwhile, Maggie and her father Dr. James O'Shea (Rodney Pickel) suspect that Sarah's death was no suicide and as Maggie pieces the clues together from that night, she begins to suspect that her sister's killer may in fact be one of her patients.

A psychological thriller that puts you in the seat of the sociopath's mind as you take a ride on the roller coaster of events. It's rare to find a film focusing in on the villain's point of view to a point where you almost empathize with him and find the roles reversed when the sociopath feels emotion and the intended target shows a lack of feeling in a confrontation that pulls you to the edge of your seat. While Fogg may not care either way, this film earns a five Green Mountain Star (G.M.Stars) rating making it one to watch, if your mental state can handle it.

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"Fogg" is now available at Redbox and where movies are sold/streamed.