title: Headspace (film)
text: # Headspace (film)
  
  Headspace is a 2005 psychological horror film directed by Andrew van den Houten. The screenplay was written by Steve Klausner and William M. Miller, based on a story by Troy McCombs.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Alex, a young man struggling with migraines, is sent to a hospital where he is told his brain uses the frontal lobe more than any normal person. Soon after, he begins hallucinating apparitions while murders are occurring around the city
  
  ## Principal cast
  
  | Actor | Role |
  | - | - |
  | Christopher Denham | Alex Borden |
  | Olivia Hussey | Dr. Karen Murphy |
  | William Atherton | Dr. Ira Gold |
  | Sean Young | Mother |
  | Mark Margolis | Boris Pavlovsky |
  | Larry Fessenden | Father |
  | Pollyanna McIntosh | Stacy |
  | Paul Sparks | Jason |
  | Dee Wallace | Dr. Denise Bell |
  | Udo Kier | Rev. Karl Hartman |
  | Mercedes Renard | Connie Sanchez |
  
  ## Release
  
  Headspace: The Director's Cut was released via cable and video on demand in North America on April 24 and via DVD & Blu-ray on 19 June 2012.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times:
  
     Not that it's a bad movie, particularly; it has all the necessary gore and beasties and gratuitous nudity that this not-very-demanding genre demands... None of this is very scary, but William M. Miller's cinematography and those big-name cameos keep it interesting.
  
  From TV Guide:
  
     While neither especially chilling nor particularly unpredictable, van den Houten's debut, scripted by Steve Klausner from a story by Troy McCombs and William M. Miller, aspires to little more than the usual stalk-and-slash clichés, it features a number of nice touches, including a knowing nod to H. P. Lovecraft's classic short story Pickman's Model and a slew of familiar faces in small roles, such as Udo Kier as a spooky priest and Dee Wallace-Stone and William Atherton as baffled doctors.
  