Review of The Man Who Haunted Himself

I thought this was a good film.

Roger Moore is great as the slightly dull family man Pelham who begins to have a meltdown when strange things start happening to him following a car crash. Apparently when he briefly dies on the operating table his "evil" or more exciting character is released and when he is brought back to life this leads to him having a duplicate. Therefore, his other side starts turning up and doing things opposite to what he would do thus causing him to slowly start to go mad because he was unaware of this.

The ending is a bit strange though because the other characters don't appear shocked enough when the two Pelhams meet. They seem to accept a bit too easily that the "evil" Pelham is the genuine one and the "real" Pelham is the phoney despite the fact that the "evil" one acts totally differently to the "real" one in that he is more of a daredevil. Despite this I still enjoyed it because it shows the sometimes real struggle of living a possibly dull everyday life and the wish to have a more exciting one.

Good performances make up for the slightly disappointing ending and overall this is a film worth seeing I think.