****SPOILERS**** "Paranoid" is a really weird movie about a fashion model Chloe, Jessica Alba, getting involved with a couple of nut-jobs in the little town of Davon on the quiet English coast. We also have Chloe getting harassed by some crazed stalker who's constantly calling her on her cell-phone and how he got Chloe's number, well you'll just have to stay to the end of the movie to find out if your still awake by then.
Being set up by her boyfriend Ned, Gary Love, Chloe goes to Levens Hill Lodge in Davon for the weekend and ends up drunk and on drugs and when she comes too she finds out that all the guests at the lodge, except her, are gone.
Chloe also finds that her boyfriend had more then just two timed her but that he was married to one of the guests that was with her at the lodge Eve, Gina Bellman, which hurt and greatly upset her. Stuck with nutty Stan,Lain Glen, and his burnt out wife Rachael or Ray, Jenne Tripplehorn, and Stan's creepy younger brother Gordon,Ewen Bremner, Chloe is trapped there with nowhere to go.
Drugged and drunk Chloe is video-taped by Gordon having a good time with the trio and when she recovers she goes into the living room and finds a video-tape. Watching it on her TV Chole sees another party with not only Stan Gordon and Ray but also Ned with a girl drunk or doped up and partly naked. When Stan finds out that Chloe saw the tape he freaks out and in the end tries to have her murdered.
I couldn't for the life of me figure out why Stan was so whacked out over a more or less harmless tape of him and his friends partying with the girl who wasn't a minor and didn't really seemed to be abused by anyone on the tape. We see her voluntarily take her clothes off and at one point on the tape she seems to have passed out. That was about the worst that happened to her and it wasn't brought out that she ended up dead injured raped or missing sometime after the tape was taken. Even if the worst did happened to her, she was found murdered all Stan had to do was destroy the tape and nobody would know if it ever existed, or if he knew or had anything to do with the girl on it; but to kill Chloe for seeing it! now that's crazy! It may very well have been Stan's state of mind that was saturated with both drugs and booze over the years that may have given him this paranoid reaction and the burnt-out Ray and dopey Gordon in the end went along just to placate him.
The two heroes in the movie "Paranoid" were really not what were used to seeing as heroes in films: Theresa, Mischa Barton, who was Stan and Ray's deaf mute and ping-pong playing 15 year-old daughter and Clive, Kevin Whately, a girl-watching weirdo who lived across the street from Chloe.
Theresa drawing where Chloe is, the Levens Hill Lodge, and pasting a photo of her on the drawing sends it to the police. Clive who was watching Chloe with a pair of binoculars from his apartment across the street from her became alarmed when he didn't see her for days and then tracked her down to the Levens Hill Lodge where she was held hostage by Stan.
Ned who supplied girls to Stan for parties and got his supply of coke from him in return got very nervous when Stan told him that Chloe had to be eliminated. In the end Ned told the police when they came to Stan's house looking for Chloe what was happening and led them to the cliffs to stop Stan and Gordon form killing her.
We were told earlier in the movie that Stan was a big time rock musician a while back and I started to wonder if the heavy music did more damage to his brain then the heavy drugs that he was using in the movie. Stan also fancied himself as a big time philosopher and poet and me and those in the audience as well as those on the screen had trouble keeping a straight face and not cracking up whenever the so-called words of wisdom came flowing out of his mouth.
Clive came to Chloe's rescue, together with the police,as Stan and Gordon tried to push a car with her locked up in the trunk down the cliff into the ocean. When Stan saw th cops all hell break loose as he told Gordon to distract them by not letting then hear Chloe's banging from inside the car-trunk.The not too bright Gordon dim-wittily banged against the trunk of the car like he was playing the bongo drums to drown out Choles screams! Clive runs down and chases away both Stan and Gordon and prevents them from killing Chloe and as he's driving his car we hear the American Country & Western song "The Last Roundup" playing in the English countryside.
The biggest surprise of all was saved for the end of the movie where we finally got to see who was pestering Chloe on the phone during the entire movie. That revelation only went to prove that the person wasn't who you thought he or she was but that the person was who you thought he or she wasn't.
Being set up by her boyfriend Ned, Gary Love, Chloe goes to Levens Hill Lodge in Davon for the weekend and ends up drunk and on drugs and when she comes too she finds out that all the guests at the lodge, except her, are gone.
Chloe also finds that her boyfriend had more then just two timed her but that he was married to one of the guests that was with her at the lodge Eve, Gina Bellman, which hurt and greatly upset her. Stuck with nutty Stan,Lain Glen, and his burnt out wife Rachael or Ray, Jenne Tripplehorn, and Stan's creepy younger brother Gordon,Ewen Bremner, Chloe is trapped there with nowhere to go.
Drugged and drunk Chloe is video-taped by Gordon having a good time with the trio and when she recovers she goes into the living room and finds a video-tape. Watching it on her TV Chole sees another party with not only Stan Gordon and Ray but also Ned with a girl drunk or doped up and partly naked. When Stan finds out that Chloe saw the tape he freaks out and in the end tries to have her murdered.
I couldn't for the life of me figure out why Stan was so whacked out over a more or less harmless tape of him and his friends partying with the girl who wasn't a minor and didn't really seemed to be abused by anyone on the tape. We see her voluntarily take her clothes off and at one point on the tape she seems to have passed out. That was about the worst that happened to her and it wasn't brought out that she ended up dead injured raped or missing sometime after the tape was taken. Even if the worst did happened to her, she was found murdered all Stan had to do was destroy the tape and nobody would know if it ever existed, or if he knew or had anything to do with the girl on it; but to kill Chloe for seeing it! now that's crazy! It may very well have been Stan's state of mind that was saturated with both drugs and booze over the years that may have given him this paranoid reaction and the burnt-out Ray and dopey Gordon in the end went along just to placate him.
The two heroes in the movie "Paranoid" were really not what were used to seeing as heroes in films: Theresa, Mischa Barton, who was Stan and Ray's deaf mute and ping-pong playing 15 year-old daughter and Clive, Kevin Whately, a girl-watching weirdo who lived across the street from Chloe.
Theresa drawing where Chloe is, the Levens Hill Lodge, and pasting a photo of her on the drawing sends it to the police. Clive who was watching Chloe with a pair of binoculars from his apartment across the street from her became alarmed when he didn't see her for days and then tracked her down to the Levens Hill Lodge where she was held hostage by Stan.
Ned who supplied girls to Stan for parties and got his supply of coke from him in return got very nervous when Stan told him that Chloe had to be eliminated. In the end Ned told the police when they came to Stan's house looking for Chloe what was happening and led them to the cliffs to stop Stan and Gordon form killing her.
We were told earlier in the movie that Stan was a big time rock musician a while back and I started to wonder if the heavy music did more damage to his brain then the heavy drugs that he was using in the movie. Stan also fancied himself as a big time philosopher and poet and me and those in the audience as well as those on the screen had trouble keeping a straight face and not cracking up whenever the so-called words of wisdom came flowing out of his mouth.
Clive came to Chloe's rescue, together with the police,as Stan and Gordon tried to push a car with her locked up in the trunk down the cliff into the ocean. When Stan saw th cops all hell break loose as he told Gordon to distract them by not letting then hear Chloe's banging from inside the car-trunk.The not too bright Gordon dim-wittily banged against the trunk of the car like he was playing the bongo drums to drown out Choles screams! Clive runs down and chases away both Stan and Gordon and prevents them from killing Chloe and as he's driving his car we hear the American Country & Western song "The Last Roundup" playing in the English countryside.
The biggest surprise of all was saved for the end of the movie where we finally got to see who was pestering Chloe on the phone during the entire movie. That revelation only went to prove that the person wasn't who you thought he or she was but that the person was who you thought he or she wasn't.