""I'm not deluded, I'm possessed!"" That Halle Berry can utter such a patently ludicrous line says a lot about the Oscar-winning actress. It says she can invest the most risible dialogue with urgency and drama. It says she's not afraid to risk public censure by following Monster's Ball with a commercial hunk of Joel Silver-produced schlock. It also says she should get a new agent.

To be fair, Gothika plays a lot better on the small screen than it did in the cinema. For one thing, despite its polished veneer and A-list players, Mathieu Kassovitz's picture already feels like a shonky, straight-to-video chiller. Then there's the plot (top shrink wakes up to find she's an inmate in her own asylum), a premise that could have been lifted wholesale from a Twilight Zone episode.

Most of all, though, this is one of those so-bad-it's-good movies that actually repays repeat viewings. Count the times Halle escapes from her supposedly secure unit. Marvel at Penélope Cruz's impenetrable accent and lunatic fringe. And look on slack-jawed as Kassovitz shamelessly engineers a Porky's-style naked shower scene, just so he can get Berry's bum on camera. Hell, all of that's worth the price of the DVD alone.

DVD Extras:

Kassovitz and DoP Matthew Libatique get through their chummy, piss-taking commentary without once mentioning that Robert Downey Jr broke Berry's arm on set. No mention of it either in the so-so Making Of that, along with a short featurette on the CG effects, clumsily gives away crucial plot points. Of better value are a trio of spooky video casefiles on some other Gothika inmates, coolly narrated by Bernard Hill. There's also an entertaining MTV doc on Limp Bizkit's tie-in vid that finds Halle giving their tattooed frontman a garlic-flavoured smacker.