A young woman wakes up in a seemingly evacuated hospital with a hurricane approaching. She realizes the storm has awakened malevolent forces, trapping her in a time loop. She must escape the hospital before the storm passes or she will be trapped in its halls forever.
Much of the appeal of the film is down to horror fan favourite Harris, who continues to impress in a genre that has defined her career - after her early childhood acting work in films with Bruce Willis and Steven Seagal.
There is some shock value in Inoperable's plethora of bloody effects sequences, but this is quickly lost in repetition, and the incoherent narrative is neither rewarding in the moment nor rewarded by the climax.
Gore zone visits are plentiful and Chapman appears to have the right macabre interests, but his feature is missing the noose-tightening appeal of recycled danger, playing far more lethargically than it should.
Much of it seems to be chaos for chaos' sake, with the punk aesthetic of the final credits suggesting that this was expected to be a lot more exciting than it is.
