A stealth pilot crashes. His shrink might be CIA. But which is the real nightmare?
Final Approach deals with the mental condition of Amnesia when a stealth test pilot, Col. Jason Halsey, is involved in an air disaster. A psychiatrist Dr. Dio Gottlieb attempts to help Halsey to recover his memory, but his motives seem strained. Is Gottlieb giving professional help or is he a counter-intelligence agent sent to debrief Halsey?
Acting
Héctor Elizondo's deliciously slippery psychiatrist steals every scene
Direction
Stahl's claustrophobic framing turns therapy into interrogation
Director
Eric Steven Stahl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on a shoestring budget with most scenes filmed in an actual decommissioned military hospital in Los Angeles.
The epileptic seizure sequences were controversial at release for blurring exploitation with psychological horror—some critics called it 'gaslighting as entertainment.'
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