Arlye Gross and Claudia Christian star in this completely unfunny parody of the trend of psychological thrillers, made the same year as that National Lampoon film which at least had writers who knew how to spoof genres, even if some of the gags fell flat. Gross is a clerk at a posh hotel where popular international model Christian is due to arrive, making obsessed fan Gross scheme to get a date with her.
He pretends to be a stranger she is due to meet, unaware that she is being blackmailed which leads to her murdering the man when she finally meets up with him after having sex with Gross. There's another clerk secretly in love with him and the bullying Michael E. Knight of "All My Children" whose character ends up being the butt of all sorts of jokes, none of which are funny.
Christian plays a truly disturbed character who loves to punch out mimes, abuse bellboys and when an innocent man is arrested by the police for the murder she committed, she stands there along with all the other hotel guests while he gets the Rodney King baton treatment.
There was not one remotely funny moments in the glorification of violence used as comedy. This is a disturbing film in so many ways because it seems to be enjoying the way it presents the two leading characters, both completely unlikable and not at all funny. Christian's character, who used to be quite overweight (the seeming motive for her insanity), is not sexy in the least, and Gross is exactly as his last name describes. If this has been done as simply another psychological thriller rather than trying to spoof it, it may have been remotely decent, but in parodying too many of the films in this genre, it just cheapens itself, and as a flop, it's not even a fun failure.
He pretends to be a stranger she is due to meet, unaware that she is being blackmailed which leads to her murdering the man when she finally meets up with him after having sex with Gross. There's another clerk secretly in love with him and the bullying Michael E. Knight of "All My Children" whose character ends up being the butt of all sorts of jokes, none of which are funny.
Christian plays a truly disturbed character who loves to punch out mimes, abuse bellboys and when an innocent man is arrested by the police for the murder she committed, she stands there along with all the other hotel guests while he gets the Rodney King baton treatment.
There was not one remotely funny moments in the glorification of violence used as comedy. This is a disturbing film in so many ways because it seems to be enjoying the way it presents the two leading characters, both completely unlikable and not at all funny. Christian's character, who used to be quite overweight (the seeming motive for her insanity), is not sexy in the least, and Gross is exactly as his last name describes. If this has been done as simply another psychological thriller rather than trying to spoof it, it may have been remotely decent, but in parodying too many of the films in this genre, it just cheapens itself, and as a flop, it's not even a fun failure.