Death Knows Your Name (2006): An Argentinean Low Budget Horror

Bruce Taylor is a psychiatrist who works in a mental institution. For the past few months, he has listened to one of his patients, Richard, tell him about the voices that he hears emanating from beneath the institution's ground. Bruce thinks it is just Richard's psychoses until recently, when he begins having disturbing dreams in which Richard appears to warn him of a coming horror. He then finds a hidden door, in the institution's records room, that leads to a staircase and tunnels underneath the grounds. After a brief search, he finds a human skull. He then convinces his father, a forensic scientist, to reconstruct the skull and see who it is. Everyone is perplexed that the face on the skull is that of Bruce!

It turns out that the skull belongs to the twin brother of a crazed man, Gregor VanHess, who killed him by burying him alive, and Bruce is the reincarnation of him. After following a paperwork trail, he finds that the killer is still alive at 130 years old and on his last legs of his life in a nursing home. There Bruce learns the horrific truth of Gregor's evil past and future intentions, as a virus starts to spread throughout the mental institution.

"Death Knows Your Name" is a mediocre horror / sci-fi low-budget film with a confusing plot. The story can be understood, but it seems unnecessarily more complicated that it should be. It is not exactly complex; it is just that it could have given us the same results without being so ambiguous.

This is not a bad movie for being low budget. The acting is fairly well done on most of the cast's parts. Not having done any research on the cast, they seemed British and a few cast members sounded Dutch, but it turns out that the movie was shot in Argentina! I have never seen a horror movie from there before. It is done in English, but you will notice some of the cast's accents more than others. None are unintelligible but you might be slightly distracted by them . I cracked up when a tech sees Bruce's face on the skull and said, "One of you has some 'xplainin' to do." I had flashbacks of Ricky Ricardo on "I Love Lucy."

All of the cast are relative newcomers to acting. Most have had five or less total roles.