The result is an unusually intelligent and brilliantly acted psychological chiller.
As it is, Sterns use of slow dramatic build-up givesPins jabs of horror real, Cronenbergian power.
Pin himself is a fearsome creation, a shiny-skinned ghoul who fixes you with his unbilnking stare.
Pins joints are articulated, with his head able to move freely like a flesh-and-blood humans.
Could it be that, at some dreadful point in the film, hell suddenly spring to life?
Throughout, Stern plays with that possibility wonderfully, fulfilling some expectations and violently confounding others.
Pinis out on DVD now from Arrow Films.
