human shield. Outside The Rex, a SWAT team arrives, in synchronicity with the police's arrival at the theater in The Mommy. The police obtain access to the projector booth via the roof and send in a sniper. The man holds Patty hostage in front of the theater, addressing Alice onscreen and asking her to come save him. Attempts by the police to engage the man fail; when the police in The Mommy kill Alice, the man becomes enraged, throws Patty to the ground, and resumes firing into the audience; the police sniper then shoots and kills him. Looking up at the screen, Patty has a vision of John gouging out her eye with a scalpel. Outside, Patty and Linda are reunited and Patty is taken to the hospital for an evaluation. Doctors assure her that she is physically all right, though the experience was mentally scarring. As Linda leaves, she is attacked on an elevator by an unseen orderly who aims a scalpel for her throat. The orderly then proceeds to Patty's room and is revealed to be John, who assures Patty that he's only a figment of her imagination. Patty screams as John examines her eyes. As the screen cuts to black, the camera pulls back to show a movie theater of patrons watching the events onscreen, revealing that Patty's story was in fact a film within a film within a film. The credits for Anguish roll as the theater patrons leave one by one. Cast Zelda Rubinstein as Alice Pressman, the Mother Michael Lerner as John Pressman Talia Paul as Patty Ángel Jovè as The Killer Clara Pastor as Linda Isabel García Lorca as Caroline Nat Baker as Teaching Doctor Edward Ledden as Doctor Gustavo Gili as Student #1 Reception On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 60% based on , with a weighted average rating of 6.8/10. Author and film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, calling it "Imaginative but overly violent". TV Guide rated the film three out of five stars, writing, "Anguish is a well-crafted and entertaining exercise in cinematic style, and a good example of an adventurous director turning to the horror genre in order to have more room to flex his pyrotechnical muscles." Time Out London called it "A strikingly original, intricately constructed, and extremely gruesome horror film", while noting that the execution occasionally didn't