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Jeffrey P @vanillavoodoo1 Mar 20, 2025 An 'A' for effort, 'C' for execution. It is not a run-of-the-mill 90's film and is unique for any day and age, and it has some of the strangeness and camera angles to feel like an Argento film. Here in 2025, I enjoyed the vibe and aesthetics a lot and the characters were pretty good, but the story was thin and slow to develop before the last 30 minutes went off the tracks and into crazy town. See more Allan C @RT15713161 Dec 24, 2024 Sharon Stone plays a traumatized woman who gets locked in a high-end apartment with the corpse of a man she's been dreaming would murder her. I read that writer/director Frank De Felitta (AUDREY ROSE and THE ENTITY) originally wrote this as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. This film would have been stronger if it was a tight 60-minute story. The first and second acts could have easily been combined because this full-length movie version felt like it had a lot of filler on the front end. It's not until the final act, when she's locked in the apartment that the movie gets good, and that's where it's actually worth watching. Stone is good and makes for a sympathetic heroine. Steve Railsbakc (HELTER SKELTER) and Ronny Cox (ROPOCOP) also appear in the film, as does character actor Albert Popwell (DIRTY HARRY). Overall, it's nothing brilliant, but it's worth watching if you're in the mood for something that reminded me of a Lifetime Channel thriller. See more David D @drdave Apr 3, 2024 Could be one of the WORST movies ever! The premise, the acting, the directing, the gratuitous topless shot of Sharon Stone, the forced ending that made no sense, contibuted to the wasted 1:45 that will never be retrieved from the time that I reserve for movie watching. Do these comments suggest that this movie was awful? Hope so! See more Steve D @RT35616104 Sep 11, 2023 Really dumb despite the talent involved. See more justin t @RT08580778 Feb 14, 2023 This was pretty dull and really not very good at all. The script is pretty terrible. The acting is boring. The violence almost non-existent and the whole concept is just plain dull. There is very little to save this bore-fest except for the tolerable acting and occasional interesting story moments. The twist at the end is unimaginative. The whole thing just slow and not worth watching, the sands of time should have kept this movie. See more Oct 31, 2021 Frank De Felitta is all over the genre wavelength, directing the made for TV pseudo reality horror like The Stately Ghosts of England, bringing the slasher home with Dark Night of the Scarecrow and writing movies like Z.P.G., Audrey Rose and The Entity. Now, not to start this argument, but this movie seems like just as much a giallo as a slasher, as Sharon Stone's Angela Anderson is sexually repressed, has been attacked in an elevator, has used scissors to defend herself and is in love with. set of twins, one a soap opera star and the other a wheelchair-bound artist and both played by Steve Railsback. Dr. Stephan Carter (Ronnie Cox) believes that some event in her past with a red-bearded man named Billy. Well, she soon finds Billy dead in an apartment that has a caged raven that keeps yelling that she's a killer and exhibits throughout that tell the story of her life, so I'm now completely so sure that this is a giallo that I expect her to run through a room full of bats and then find dogs all strung up in a medical experiment before watching two women in paper dresses fight at a party. Would Ronnie Cox be married to Michelle Phillips? I guess in the world of this movie, sure. And who is to say what happens when someone starts dressing like Billy — who ends up in reality being the stepfather that Angela's mother killed — and taking the mental games to the highest of highs. This movie also has a total Guy Caballero moment — "The wheelchair is for respect!" — and taught me that yes, ravens have a repertoire of 100 or more vocalizations, allowing them to mimic human speech and singing. Is this movie even a slasher? I don't know. It's actually a mess, a film that asks you to believe that a 26-year-old Sharon Stone is a virginal innocent, that twin brothers both fall for her and someone is willing. to build an entire apartment devoted to her. It makes the first hour feel like forty years, which is a major accomplishment. Major people made this movie, which shocked me. See more Read all reviews

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