In addition to the bad acting, there's some "ugly" acting. As Trey's daughter, Aimee O'Sullivan isn't half as bad as her screen mother, but of her three moods (hyper-perky, sad, and terrified), hyper-perky is the one turned on throughout most of the movie. Still, she's a child actor. She has room to grow.
But, then, we're supposed to take Patrick Muldoon seriously as a psychiatrist? I mean, this guy has one of those "Just waiting to drink some beer and watch the football game" voices. It's hard to translate that into a character with years and years of post-graduate education... and have the audience buy into it. Still, when he's in Victorian costume and sporting a Brit accent, Muldoon is actually not bad as Jack the Ripper.
Despite all these criticisms, I'm not trying to pan the film. It's a Direct-to-Video low budget B-movie. And (in that context), well, it's not exactly good, but it's still far far far away from the lower end of the DTV spectrum.
For a DTV movie, it gets about 2.5 out of 5 stars. But if it were a theatrical release, it would lose at least one of those stars.
(Footnote: For a good low-budget DTV movie, see Fred Olen Ray's Invisible Mom).
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