Review: The Scrubs is definitely worth a visit!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2011
The story here starts off with a bang, establishing the darkly gothic setting of London's Wormwood Scrubs Prison and the mystery of the "North Wing Project". Toss in a field of hallucinogen weeds growing beneath the prison, a psychotic serial killer, and a Warden with delusions of grandeur (and greed), and you know things are not going to go well.At first glance, the experiment at the heart of the story seems familiar but The Rift doesn't just safely recreate the psychotic wilderness of James Jeter's mind, it thrusts us directly into it, with no safety net, no escape mechanism, and no means of pulling the plug.Much of the story revolves around Michael trying to find the trapped soul of James' last victim, a boy whose body was never found, and who may still be alive. I'm cautious of spoiling the delicious twists that close out the story, but the discovery of the boy - not just trapped, but physically a part of a tree, requiring that he literally be carved free - is a fantastic scene.Of course, a few villains always makes a rescue scene better, and while it takes a while before we meet the two prisoners sent into The Rift before Michael, but it's well worth the wait. The way in which they've been twisted and altered by James' mind is quite monstrous, but the fact that they like it better inside, despite being at the mercy of a mad man, puts it over the top.