Mortal Fear (1994)

ROBBING COOK

Based on the medical thriller by Robin Cook, this tv movie version has little of the suspense and careful plotting of its source.
Joanna Kerns stars as a recently widowed Chief of Staff whose patients are dying suddenly even though at their last physicals they were in fine shape. Tobin Bell (the SAW movies villain) plays a brilliant research scientist who has been working with genetics and possibly an anti-aging process, but he joins the list of victims. Gregory Harrison is the handsome financial-minded hospital administrator who falls for Kerns and Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger himself) is a shady fellow physician. It all moves at a snail's pace and the who in the whodunit becomes obvious rather quickly. Stick with COMA, one of the better adaptations of Cook's. June 22, 2006

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