**SPOILERS** Having developed extrasensory perception as a young girl when she saw her father, a fireman, appear at her bedside the very moment he was killed, in a raging fire miles away, Babette Watson, Kristin Davis, has always been considered weird. Not just by her friends but her very religious, in the Catholic faith, mother Yette, Hllen Burstyn.
It's when Babette starts to see, in a number of visions, a faceless serial killer doing in a number of young women, before he actually does it, that she gets the attention of young handsome and a bit confused, in Barbette's ability to see the future, Det. Max Seagle, Matthew Settle. This leads to Max to not only fall in love with the lovely and very religious, she refuses to go to bed with Max because she's still single as well as a virgin, Babette but end up in the cross-hairs, or switchblade knife, of the killer who sees him as a rival for Babettes love.
Like in most of these films about a psychic trying to help the local police in solving crimes Babette is treated as a loony and wacko by the cops, that includes chief homicide detective Salvatore DeVinci played by Peter Boyle, she's trying to help! This despite giving them very important information,that Det. DeVinchi and his men laughed off, that could have well prevent two or possibly three murderers by the serial killer!
There's a number of false leads and suspects in this string of serial killings that go on and on that keeps you on your toes for almost the entire length of the movie. But it's when the killer finally appears it's about as surprising as as the sparrows flying, which they've done since time immemorial, back north to Capistrano in April. Even though his identity, he's only knows as "The Killer" in the credits, comes as a total surprise!
The person-Matt & Matthew Ross-who plays the nameless killer seemed to have done such a great job in playing him that he in fact gets two, not your usual one, different credits in the movie! With two different first names and two entirely, one that picks up where the other left off, different sets of credits in the films he was in!
We get the usually obligatory and whacked out speech by the killer in trying to clarify his strange actions,to both Babette and those of us watching in the audience, before he's finally done in for good. Yet with all the twists and turns as well as unconnected surprises in the movie I still expected something to happen until the closing credits started rolling!
P.S I was a bit surprise at the very striking resemblance of actor Matthew Settle, who played Det. Seagle, to the late and tragic, he died at age 41 of AIDS, Brad Davis. For a while I thought that it was Davis not Settle who was in the movie until I read the films credits on the IMDb.
It's when Babette starts to see, in a number of visions, a faceless serial killer doing in a number of young women, before he actually does it, that she gets the attention of young handsome and a bit confused, in Barbette's ability to see the future, Det. Max Seagle, Matthew Settle. This leads to Max to not only fall in love with the lovely and very religious, she refuses to go to bed with Max because she's still single as well as a virgin, Babette but end up in the cross-hairs, or switchblade knife, of the killer who sees him as a rival for Babettes love.
Like in most of these films about a psychic trying to help the local police in solving crimes Babette is treated as a loony and wacko by the cops, that includes chief homicide detective Salvatore DeVinci played by Peter Boyle, she's trying to help! This despite giving them very important information,that Det. DeVinchi and his men laughed off, that could have well prevent two or possibly three murderers by the serial killer!
There's a number of false leads and suspects in this string of serial killings that go on and on that keeps you on your toes for almost the entire length of the movie. But it's when the killer finally appears it's about as surprising as as the sparrows flying, which they've done since time immemorial, back north to Capistrano in April. Even though his identity, he's only knows as "The Killer" in the credits, comes as a total surprise!
The person-Matt & Matthew Ross-who plays the nameless killer seemed to have done such a great job in playing him that he in fact gets two, not your usual one, different credits in the movie! With two different first names and two entirely, one that picks up where the other left off, different sets of credits in the films he was in!
We get the usually obligatory and whacked out speech by the killer in trying to clarify his strange actions,to both Babette and those of us watching in the audience, before he's finally done in for good. Yet with all the twists and turns as well as unconnected surprises in the movie I still expected something to happen until the closing credits started rolling!
P.S I was a bit surprise at the very striking resemblance of actor Matthew Settle, who played Det. Seagle, to the late and tragic, he died at age 41 of AIDS, Brad Davis. For a while I thought that it was Davis not Settle who was in the movie until I read the films credits on the IMDb.