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Dr Miranda Grey (Berry) is a psychiatrist at a New England prison for criminally insane women. On her way home one evening after work, during a torrential electric storm of course, she encounters a freaky girl in the road. The next thing she knows she's an inmate in her own prison, accused of murdering her husband (Dutton), also a doctor there. Her trusted colleague (Downey), another doctor (Hill) and the local sheriff (Lynch) are all trying get to the bottom of it, but she can't remember what happened. And besides, everyone thinks she's crazy! Then strange things begin happening, and Miranda has to take a bizarre leap of faith to solve the mystery. Perhaps her former patient and now fellow inmate Chloe (Cruz) might not be as nuts as she thought.

Basically this is a standard ghost story, and French director Kassovitz approaches it almost like a music video, with deeply unrealistic set design (walls painted black and so on), eerily insinuating special effects, red herrings at every level of the production and heightened performances that make you believe everyone's guilty of murder. Along the way, he somehow manages to keep us nervous and jumpy, even as the plot and dialog get increasingly laughable ("I'm not delusional, I'm possessed!"). It helps to have such a solid cast on board, because it lends a kind of warped emotional believability to the overall goofiness. And although it's very hard to imagine this ever becoming a cult classic, simply because there's not much to it, it's a fairly good time at the movies ... if you're prepared to just sit back and have fun. Hey, there's hours of enjoyment in store just in guessing what the title means!