Rating: NR
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 08/14/2001
Flags: Suitable for Children, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Rhino Home Video
The "psycho"-logical melodrama
My World Dies Screaming was appropriately released on a double bill with
Lost, Lonely and Vicious, which also featured a profoundly disturbed protagonist. In
My World,
Gerald Mohr plays Philip Tierney, who hopes to expunge the inner demons plaguing his wife Sheila (
Cathy O'Donnell). He persuades her to return to the crumbling old mansion where, as a child, she witnessed a brutal axe murder. Incredibly, the killers do not return to finish the job; instead, the audience is treated to all manner of pseudo-Freudian symbolism as Sheila subconsciously battles her way towards normalcy.
My World Dies Screaming isn't bad: it's just that the films substitutes style for substance.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide