Well here's a development I can safely say I didn't see coming. Paddy Breathnach's follow-up to his trippy (and only moderately successful) SHROOMS had previously been known as RED MIST (check out my last article about it HERE). Now it shall be known as FREAKDOG. See the connection? No, me neither.

If you're looking for a clue, here's the plot crunch: A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful "out-of-body" experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - to inhabit other people's bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition. The doctor, who was herself a part of this group, is also targeted and as her colleagues are singled out and relentlessly picked off, she realizes that she can trust no-one - friend or stranger - as this comatose killer moves in and out of bodies at will, getting ever closer as his murderous supernatural powers increase.

How does a "Freakdog" figure in? You've got me. Maybe it's just street slang for body-inhabiting coma victims? "Yo, my man got hit by a car and now he's a total freakdog!" I think I'll submit it to Urban Dictionary...

The flick stars Arielle Kebbel (below), Sarah Carter, Stephen Dillane and Andrew Lee Potts. It should hit our shores sometime in 2009.