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I just didn't get it, sorry (minor spoilers)


I mean I've certainly seen WORSE slasher movies, but at least for my taste, the PACING of this movie was so, so, so, so, slow. And i know that movies in general, much less SLASHER movies, aren't SUPPOSED to make sense, but there were plot holes and implausibilities that with just a LITTLE bit more effort in the script could have been at least PARTIALLY smoothed out.

I appreciated how the producers at least TRIED to add in little side plots like Shatner's characters, the looks into the killer's youth, the nurse and her family etc., but I just don't know, it felt like it was just all slammed together.

Some of the death scenes felt unnecessary, irrelevant to the plot, and gratuitous, which isn't bad, but I'd have appreciated a bit more effort.

I mean, it was okay, I watched the whole thing which means I didn't hate it TOO much, but it won't make it into my list of favorites.

P.S. That blonde from Happy Birthday to Me (an underrated slasher in its own right and one of my favorites) is HOT! :).

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Perhaps they were trying for both a slasher film and social commentary--but acheived neither,or couldn't decide what type of film to make. It was just badly directed.

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I honestly couldn't figure out what sort of direction they were looking for. It seemed odd that they gave so much about the killer away. It also made no sense why the son would have been against women defending themselves since he knew his father was the abuser.

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It was implied that the dad was sexually abusing him. Maybe he was getting back at women because him mom couldn't defend him.

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Where did you get the implication the father was sexually him as a boy????? Wow, that's a stretch.

I kind of have to agree, this one just didn't cut it. Too many implausibilities. I mean Lee Grant is hospitalized after an attempted murder and considering she is a tv personality, they did not have extra security?? Plus it seemed no one made the connection, including Shatner, that when the two murders in her old room from only a few hours before it could have been another attempt on Lee Grant? Then at the end when Colt was somehow able to bypass security to get into Lee's room wearing street clothes and looking like a thug... then Lee somehow escapes only to find that they closed the entire ward down and there is no more staff or security to call out for help to.

Like the OP, I watched it all the way through so it wasn't awful, but they really could have beefed up on the details.

But god, I had to cringe at some scenes. Also little Nurse Linda KNOWS she's being stalked by a deranged man (the blond gave her pics from the apt of her attacker), gets this crazy call, and then drives home ALONE without at least calling for help at her house? I almost wanted her to die she was so stupid in the way she walked through her house. And I loved it that she first went to her son, THEN the BABYSITTER, and then asked the babysitter to check up on her daughter. Strange.

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I'm sure I had my reasons, but i can't recall what they were. At any rate, PLEASE for the love of God, don't make me watch that movie again to try and remember!!!

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Oh boy.

I mean Lee Grant is hospitalized after an attempted murder and considering she is a tv personality, they did not have extra security??


They did when it became apparent there was a killer after her and it wasn't just a burglary gone wrong. Why would they have extra security just for TV people in public hospitals??

Plus it seemed no one made the connection, including Shatner, that when the two murders in her old room from only a few hours before it could have been another attempt on Lee Grant?


She made the connection. But the old woman being very rich, they say they thought it was relatives being after her money.

Then at the end when Colt was somehow able to bypass security to get into Lee's room wearing street clothes and looking like a thug... then Lee somehow escapes only to find that they closed the entire ward down and there is no more staff or security to call out for help to.


All this was very clearly shown. He didn't "bypass security", he came in as a patient and neutralized a guard, he distracted the staff by buzzing them from the patients' rooms. Deborah escaped by defending herself. Sounds very reasonable, no?

Where did you get the implication the father was sexually him as a boy????? Wow, that's a stretch.


It's not a stretch, one of the flashbacks was ambiguous and uncomfortable enough to raise this serious possibility.

Nurse Linda KNOWS she's being stalked by a deranged man, gets this crazy call, and then drives home ALONE without at least calling for help at her house?


You're talking nonsense or you did not watch the movie. Right after the "crazy call", first thing she does is calling her home; second thing is telling Lisa to go to Deborah's room, show her the pictures and tell a police officer; third thing, right outside the hospital, is asking a security guard, then a police officer, but none of them wants to help ("Lady I'm on duty, I can't"). Because she is so panicked (understandably), she angrily gives up and rushes home to save her child.

The movie took great care to make the characters react realistically. It's up to the viewer to pay attention.

I almost wanted her to die she was so stupid in the way she walked through her house. And I loved it that she first went to her son, THEN the BABYSITTER, and then asked the babysitter to check up on her daughter. Strange.


Again you didn't get it. She saw her daughter was alright, so she went to the babysitter to evacuate the house: "Go wake up Bridget, wait upstairs until I call you, keep quiet." The son is not here, we saw him leave earlier, the daughter stayed because she had a temperature.


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It's not a slasher film.

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