The entire "Blood Drive" show definitely is a limitless playground for horror/cult scriptwriters with an overly absurd imagination, but particularly this episode "In the Crimson Halls of Kane Hill" must have been pure Walhalla! In this completely derailed and utterly bonkers installment, the less and less reluctant pair Grace D'Argento and officer Arthur Bailey take an unauthorized side trip from the race in order to look for Grace's sister Karma. She got institutionalized in a macabre place called Kane Hill, and getting her out of there eventually became Grace's main motivation to participate in the race. Through flashbacks, the episode clarifies how Karma ended up in custody, but it naturally all links back to the sinister & overhead masterplan of the Heart corporation. Inside the walls of Kane Hill, our protagonists quickly discover that the patients are running the show, while the doctors and remaining staff members have been reduced to (barely) living toys. If that isn't quite challenging enough yet, Julian Slink also sent the maniacal Rib Bone after Grace and Arthur, with a latitude for revenge. Granted, this TV-series is one giant guilty pleasure of mine and I can't bring myself to be overly skeptical, but this episode is truly fantastic entertainment for fans of extreme horror madness. Kane Hill asylum is the ideal horror setting; a morbidly atmospheric nuthouse with residents that are sick beyond words. The sequence where a handful of lunatic goof around with a staff member they turned into a life-sized marionette is one of the most demented things I've ever seen.
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