a crackling and magnificent thriller about a child psychiatrist and catherine deane ( jennifer lopez ) who be desperately urge by two fbi agent and peter novak ( vince vaughn ) and gordon ramsey ( jake weber ) to use her therapy on carl stargher ( vincent dofornio ) and a serial killer who ( use strange and horrifying torture tactic ) be find in a coma by the fed . what novak want in return from deane be whereabouts of stargher late victim be and if she alive . once deane get into stargher mind and which have the appearence and atmosphere that resemble a colorful combination of david lynch dune or blue velvet and wes craven a nightmare on elm street and the adventure begin . deane see a variety of odd people range from carl a a youngster ( an adorable jake thomas ) to a freddy krueger like man minus the razor claw . i do not want to give away the end and but the movie be great altogether besides the dynamite performance and howard shore creepy musical score and directing ( by tarsem and who show here that he can direct ) .