The Return

Director Asif Kapadia’s foot-dragging supernatural thriller with a late-in-the-game climax offers nothing to horror-film lovers, except inadequate payoffs and an increasingly annoying Patsy Cline soundtrack. The Queen of Wannabe Creepy, Sarah Michelle Gellar, stars as a highly disturbed sales representative for an interstate big-rig company who is in need of top-notch therapy at every truck stop. Plagued by violent hallucinations, stalked by a violent ex-beau, riddled with daddy issues and victim to her own self-mutilation, Gellar’s character would make any shrink a very rich person. Even with the film’s meager 85-minute running time, revelations of the murderous visions take forever to be divulged and are rather unsatisfactory when they finally are.