Review “Jenny Base”: More than the halls of the usual nursing house

The philosopher Emmanuel Kant once said: “From the twisted wood of humanity, nothing straight was made at all.” It can be said, then, old age distorts us further. This seems to be the case in the Royal Ruiz house, Royal Mius, the fictional New Zealand prepared for most of “Jenny Ben”, a new movie by director James Ashkruvet.

Ashkrouvte, who adapted the film with Eli Kent from a short story by Owen Marshall, begins the story with Jeffrey Rush in the role of Stephen Mortenson, a inevitable judge. He raises a young woman linked to a criminal case: “You are not a victim here.” These words will return to chase him.

During his final rule, he suffers from a stroke, which lands in Royal Pine Music. Although he is partially paralyzed, he is still mentally acute enough to be able to correct a patient colleague who makes a mistake of “zeymandias”. But he is not fully prepared to deal with another patient, Dave Kerilli (played by John Lihjo, who plays with him), who frightens Stephen and other patients with the help of a doll made from a child’s doll (among other things, removed the eyes, to make her more creeping) that Jenny Ben calls.

The previous Ashcroft feature, “Back to the Darkness” (2021), was an uncomfortable and ultimately uncomfortable to spend a wrong family vacation. Through this film, he expands his painting, and offers a dual dose of horror: Carilli’s torture of Stephen, and Stephen’s mental deterioration that seems unbearable. The director is still almost a strait in his approach, and he has never shown his weak characters (and the torture with the taste of Litjjo, ultimately, without protection like any of the others) in cases of complete separation.

Jenny Ben Base
R for topics, language and extreme terror. Running time: 1 hour 43 minutes. In theaters.