Time for a semi-erotic stalker story starring Morgan Fairchild and Michael Sarrazin/Andrew Stevens? Why not!

I was expecting less quality. More B-movie. More nudity. But there wasn't all that much of the latter, and the quality: way better than expected! They build up the mood masterfully - both the intimacy and the threat. That of a stalker, a man who believes that the main character, a newscaster, is in love with him, and though he starts the stalking with good intentions it quickly gets out of hand. I think that's part of what makes this one stand out among similar competition: that the bad guy's not inherently bad. Relations are complicated, and the plot is a butterfly effect of small and correlated events.

The script's perfect; fleshed-out in moderation. The cast is small, all with designated roles. The sets are classy and luxurious. The panning's slow and tasteful - or drawn out and foreboding when they go for that.

All in all it's a thriller with everything the name implies, and a complex intrigue that weaves around the characters, and couples, and paves the way for an inevitable bedside tragedy.

This might be a classic. I've seen it before too, a few years back. Think I appreciated it a lot more this time around.

 rated 4.5/5: almost awesome

What lives that does not live from the death of someone else?

Fornicating with the dead: that's what it all about. A select few characters with their own morbid fantasies, gruesome props, flayed chickens, horrible accidents, sex and death... it's an experimental montage of the macabre. Not badly done, though some of this stuff... not really up my alley! I don't easily get grossed out but seeing animals getting flayed in particular... I could've done without that bit.

It's all about a couple of necrophiles. The husband works as a street cleaner, and one day brings home a corpse that his wife is just fascinated by, and from there on things really start to go downhill...

It's not as gruesome as what you'd get with something new in the same genre, or as authentic, but the plot: that bit will be difficult to match. It's authentic, as bizarre as it is. All the stories of the Cannibal Cafe and what-not come flooding back. Don't Google that. But if this is your thing it's... pretty gritty.

 rated 3/5: not bad

With a name like that you know this might get interesting! And yet it's not too much. I'm surprised. It's classy.

I really miss the seventies and the movies like this. Where freedom reigned. Where thriller implied foreboding music and softcore psychopathy. Where everything didn't have to take place in the city, when the work ethic was different, and you didn't have to take the expected route with anything. Where you could let loose ends be and still build something where it mattered, and where you didn't have to pay for emission rights to torch an old building with gallons of 100% authentic gasoline.

And still they kept the intrigue. The mood brooding. The romance brewing. The intimacy thick. It's down to Earth and perverse, yet not as overly twisted and violent as say the SAW movies of today. This was just right. I think I might get into another wave of these old gems soon.

 rated 3.5/5: not bad at all