Clean, Shaven

Clean, Shaven (1995) is Lodge Kerrigan's debut thriller, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Peter Winter has just been released from a psychiatric institution and sets out to find his small daughter, Nicole, who was placed with an adoptive family. Peter has schizophrenia, and the world reaches him as a barrage of voices, static and unbearable noise.

The camera never explains his illness from the outside — it locks you inside Peter's head instead. Radio chatter cuts in with stranger's words, glass and metal shriek, an ordinary drive becomes torture. Peter Greene plays a man desperate to be a normal father and physically unable to hold reality in focus. Meanwhile a detective trails him while investigating a child's murder, and you're left genuinely unsure what Peter is capable of.

Kerrigan made just 79 minutes here, yet it stands as one of the rawest, most honest depictions of psychosis ever filmed — no sentimentality, no excuses. The sound design is scarier than any monster. It's for fans of uncompromising independent cinema and psychological thrillers that leave you needing to catch your breath. Not an easy night in. Stream Clean, Shaven (1995) online on iFILM.