Katelyn Harken (Samantha Neyland Trumbo, the first black Miss Hawaii U.S.A.) has just started at the plastic surgery clinic run by Dr. Nichols (Helena Mattsson) and Dr. Peterson (Anthony Montgomery, General Hospital). From just about the beginning, things seem off, as former doctor Brad (Harry Jarvis) is trying to make a stink and Detective Elliot (Justin Chu Cary) is investigating a murder. We’re shown exactly what is going on when a woman’s face is being ripped off. So that leads to the question that I am sure that you are asking: Who is the Sinister Surgeon?
Katelyn has a strange career path, as her father was a famous heart surgeon and she was becoming one until he died, causing her to suddenly switch to plastic surgery. I’m not one to ask for realism in my erotic thrillers, but I don’t think that’s how it works.
That said, she soon makes a friend in front office assistant Lori (Alisa Allapach), who was a doctor before a car accident caused her to lose her eyesight on one side. She works in the clinic and even gets free surgery from Dr. Peterson. Speaking of the kindly doctor, it’s literally a day before he’s all over his new doctor. If she looks like his dead wife Alana — like all of his conquests, including murder victims Angel and Erica and patients Jennifer (Ashley London), Tracey (Shantel Jackson) and Sarah (Jordyn Rolling) — we wouldn’t have a movie otherwise.
Directed by Jonathan Louis Lewis (who directed Black Devil Doll using the name Jonathan Lewis) and written by Mary O’Neil (You Shouldn’t Have Let Me In) and James Quinn, this is a movie not content to have just one twist. It’s also one where every character makes the absolute dumbest decision every time they have an opportunity to and the real killer is easy to spot. That said, I was entertained, mainly because I kept yelling “Sinister Surgeon” at the screen every couple of seconds.
You can watch this on Tubi.