Film Review: ‘The Dead Center’

There’s nothing conceptually all that special about “The Dead Center,” but sometimes it’s all in the execution, and this creepily restrained horror thriller manages to never seem entirely predictable while nonetheless drawing on numerous prior genre influences, from the “[rec]” films to “The Exorcist III.” It’s an impressive leap forward for writer-director Billy Senese, whose 2014 feature debut “Closer to God” was more in the realm of a nice try.

It opens on ten U.S.

screens on Oct.

11, with release in disc formats Oct.

22.A big, gory mess of what’s assumed to be a suicide victim is delivered to a morgue, tagged and bagged.

But later he proves not-so-dead — waking with a start, he tears out of his body bag, then stumbles to another part of the public hospital, tucking himself into an available bed before passing out again.

It is there that he is found by

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