Sublime (film)

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Sublime
Directed by	Tony Krantz
Produced by	Tony Krantz Daniel Myrick Shawn Papazian
Written by	Erik Jendresen
Starring	Tom Cavanagh Kathleen York Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Katherine Cunningham-Eves
Cinematography	Dermott Downs
Editing by	Robert Florio
Distributed by	Warner Home Video
Release date(s)	13 March 2007
Running time	113 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,800,000 (estimated)
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Sublime is a 2007 horror film directed by Tony Krantz and written by Erik Jendresen.

Sublime is the second direct-to-DVD "Raw Feed" horror film from Warner Home Video, and it was released on March 13, 2007. The film stars Tom Cavanagh, Kathleen York, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and Katherine Cunningham-Eves. R-rated and unrated versions have been released on DVD in the United States.

[edit] Plot summary

The plot centers on the protagonist George Grieves (Cavanagh), who checks into the Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure only to find horrors await him. Awakening from what was supposedly a simple colonoscopy Grieves is told by hospital staff that due to confusion arising from similar patient names he was mistakenly given a sympathectomy to cure sweaty palms.

As the days tick by Mr. Grieves' post-operative experiences grow ever more bizarre until he finally realizes that he is caught inside a nightmare of his own creation and seems unable to escape or awaken back in the real world. He understands that something has gone wrong in his post-operative recovery which is keeping him trapped in this netherworld of manifestations of all of his worst fears but he understands neither what the problem is nor what, if anything, he can do to awaken from it.

We eventually see his condition from his family's perspective and it appears hopeless. The doctors explain that there was a complication during the colonoscopy which created an air bubble in his bloodstream that eventually reached his brain and caused so much damage that he ended up in an apparently permanent vegetative state. He's been dead to the outside world for 10 long months now and his family is being pressured to remove all artificial means of life support.

Meanwhile back inside his own mind George Grieves is in a desperate losing battle with his own manifested fears and decides that the only way out is to commit suicide in this dream-like state hoping that it will cause his real body to expire and free him from the interminable torment he's had to endure. He manages to leap from a 7th-floor window onto the concrete below, and the final shot is of his real-world body lying in bed with his wife, kids and brother next to him, and closing its eyelids in physical death.