Headspace is a 2005 psychological horror film directed by Andrew van den Houten. The screenplay was written by Steve Klausner and William M. Miller, based on a story by Troy McCombs. It starred Christopher Denham, Olivia Hussey, William Atherton, Erick Kastel, and Sean Young, with cameos from Dee Wallace, Mark Margolis, and Udo Kier.
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Plot
Years after watching his mother die, Alex, a young man struggling with migraines, is hospitalized following an encounter playing chess with an strange man in the park. There he discovers his intellect begins growing at a supernatural rate as he begins hallucinating apparitions, while murders are occurring around New York City.
Cast
Christopher Denham as Alex Borden
Olivia Hussey as Dr. Karen Murphy
William Atherton as Dr. Ira Gold
Sean Young as Mother
Erick Kastel as Harry Jellinek
Pollyanna McIntosh as Stacy
Paul Sparks as Jason
Mark Margolis as Boris Pavlovsky
Larry Fessenden as Father
Dee Wallace as Dr. Denise Bell
Udo Kier as Reverend Karl Hartman
Patrick Wang as Sammy Chung
James Spruill as Lloyd Carter
Mercedes Renard as Connie Sanchez
Release
Headspace: The Director's Cut was released via cable and video on demand in North America on April 24 and via DVD & Blu-ray on 19 June 2012.
Critical reception
Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times:
Not that it's a bad movie, particularly; it has all the necessary gore and beasties and gratuitous nudity that this not-very-demanding genre demands... None of this is very scary, but William M. Miller's cinematography and those big-name cameos keep it interesting.
From TV Guide:
While neither especially chilling nor particularly unpredictable, van den Houten's debut, scripted by Steve Klausner from a story by Troy McCombs and William M. Miller, aspires to little more than the usual stalk-and-slash clichés, it features a number of nice touches, including a knowing nod to H. P. Lovecraft's classic short story Pickman's Model and a slew of familiar faces in small roles, such as Udo Kier as a spooky priest and Dee Wallace-Stone and William Atherton as baffled doctors.