stalker question?
so was the stalker someone she knew or no? I couldn't tell from the end if it was the doorman or not. That's who he looked like to me, or was it just some guy who liked stalking and killing women?
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That's a major letdown. This movie had lots going for it - the Hitchcockian style, good directon, but then it throws red herrings at you and goes on too long with the phone calls only later to have a showdown totally unrelated to anything that previously happened. It's like if John Carpenter started writing this cool calculated mystery, then he went on and on with it, then he got bored and stopped, finishing it abruptly. It's like a run of the mill giallo without any blood or sex, which is a good thing, because this movie keeps you watching.
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Not really; first, the movie was never a whodunit, the perpetrator was much less relevant than the terror of the protagonist - or the fact that at one point we actually wondered whether she hadn't started to hallucinate. Besides, the ending actually made a lot of sense - yes the bad guy had to be someone who had all sorts of access to the systems of the building, and that was something we could have thought of earlier ourselves (just that we were a little too accustomed to criminals having magical access to the infrastructure of whatever they use to terrorise the protagonist, so we didn't think that the movie will actually make sense in this respect). You seem to have expected a movie with a twist, but the thing is that having a twist is not necessary for a good thriller or mystery movie.
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I agree with asgard. I wouldn't say it was a total let down, I got some enjoyment from it, but it definitely needed 'something'.
It was really well done at first, so creepy and it started building characters too. But ultimately the characters went nowhere, the girl friend existing almost entirely to die, and the boyfriend who barely did anything in the whole movie besides stroke his chin and ponder things. He finally got off his ass and come to some conclusions at the end of the film, but that was all pointless anyway.
There were some good moments, like the grate bit, but there was nothing truly 'great' throughout the movie, it was all just solid. But it really made me think that it was going to have a great ending. Like the bad guy was going to turn out to be her boyfriend, or her new boss, or there was going to be a huge chase with her running and falling over and all the typical horror movie stuff. But ultimately nothing great ended up happening. It went from being good, good, good, good, and then all of sudden it went to "what the hell is she doing in the guys house?!" and then, "what the holy *beep* is she doing back in her apartment?!" and then it ended with a pretty mediocre 'fight'. And the bad guy turns out to be 'just some bad guy'.
Pretty lame ending I'd say. Didn't totally ruin for me, but yeah, Hitchcock absolutely blows movies like this away.
I agree. The movie kept you in suspense but the ending was a big let down.
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