What do you do when you can see, but are unable to recognise even those closest to you?
How do you avoid a killer when you can’t remember his face? He could be anyone and you could be his next victim.Anna Merchant (Milla Jovovich) faces this crisis when she inadvertently witnesses a murder by a serial killer known only as Tearjerk Jack.The killer slits the throats of his victims then weeps over their bodies.

In escaping from the killer, a blow to the head leaves Anna with a neurological disorder which means she cannot remember faces. Every time she looks at a face, it changes to such an extent she is unable to recognise even her boyfriend, nor her best friends.

Working out the identity of the killer is even more difficult.Only one face helps her through her life-and-death quest for answers – Detective Kerrest (Julian McMahon).

They must put the pieces together before the killer eliminates the only witness to his crimes – Anna.But everywhere Anna turns is a new face and person who could be the killer.She must use the new skills taught to her by a psychologist to identify the mannerisms and movements of this man and stop him.Faces in the Crowd is certainly a first-rate psychological thriller.We are left in the dark as much as Anna, never knowing who the killer is and when he is going to rear his head again.

There was a time when a psycho thriller like Faces in the Crowd would have received a wide theatrical release. There was also a time when such a movie would have been legally required to star Ashley Judd, but that’s another matter entirely.

Julian McMahon and Michael Shanks co-star in writer/director Julien Magnat’s serial killer chiller Faces in the Crowd that sees Milla Jovovich as the sole survivor of a serial killer who now finds herself suffering from a condition that makes it impossible for her to recognize faces, particularly the killer still at large and stalking her.

Face blindness, huh? Kind of like how in Color of Night Bruce Willis was so traumatized by a bloody death he lost his ability to see the color red. One can only hope Faces in the Crowd turns out better than Color of Night. But then Color of Night didn’t feature a serial killer named “Tearjerk Jack”.

Anna (Milla Jovovich) may be the only survivor of serial killer Tearjerk Jack’s horrendous reign, but left with “face blindness”, she is completely unable to identify him – or anyone else. Now, with only a loyal detective’s (Julian McMahon) face familiar to her, she cannot trust anyone as she struggles to resume her normal life and, plagued by fear and a vindictive Jack, to survive.

You will not be seeing writer/director Julien Magnat’s Faces in the Crowd at a theater near you anytime soon. Instead you should look for it on DVD and Blu-ray October 25th. A digital copy appears to be the only DVD extra included in this Millennium Entertainment/First Look Pictures.

Have a look at the trailer and cover art below. I take back what I said earlier about this being tailor-made for Ashley Judd. If I suffered from face blindness, I’d watch this trailer and be convinced Faces in the Crowd was an early-to-mid-1990’s Madeline Stowe thriller.

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