the audience applauded

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

FATAL BOND is an Aussie addition to the run of psycho-thrillers that did tidy business in the early 1990s after the success of FATAL ATTRACTION and the likes of THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE. It's a low budget enough piece of entertainment that nonetheless has some undeniable charm in terms of era and setting, and somehow I always find these 'Ozploitation' movies more enjoyable than their American counterparts, possibly because they're more unfamiliar. FATAL BOND's directed by Vincent Monton, who previously wrote LONG WEEKEND among others.This one sees imported American starlet Linda Blair (of THE EXORCIST fame, of course, and with a subsequent career in B-movie cinema) playing a young woman who gets a new boyfriend in the form of the edgy Jerome Ehlers. The problem is that Ehlers always seems to attract violence and on top of that a young girl he was seen talking to at the beach is found dead the next morning. Is Blair's new beau a serial killer? You'll have to watch this to find out, but it moves through the genre tropes with ease and provides a slice of switch-off-the-brain viewing material. Ehlers gives a good and mysterious performance in this and I always like Blair although she's not the world's greatest actress. The requisite sex and shower scenes tease nudity although Blair plays it tame for most of the running time.

Well okay, "Fatal Bond" was an awful film and an incredible waste of time, but at least I got to laugh really hard once, because afterwards when I browsed through the reviews here, I read someone's comment that this is – and I quote – "the best film Linda Blair has been in since The Exorcist". He or she seriously must be joking?!? I'll admit that lovely Linda hasn't appeared in many Oscar-worthy films since "The Exorcist", but this one has got to be one of her absolute worst accomplishments, on par with the dreadful "The Chilling" and "Moving Target". In case anyone is looking for real Linda Blair highlights, check out the awesomely entertaining "Chained Heat", "Savage Streets" and maybe even the crazy "Witchcraft" in which she stars alongside the one and only David Hasselhoff. This thing, on the contrary, is a horribly derivative, predictable and textbook thriller (it feels like a TV-movie although it isn't one) that shouldn't even be available anymore. Produced in Australia, but certainly not representative for the quality cult/exploitation cinema they usually make over there, "Fatal Bond" is full of clichés and dull sequences. Blair stars as the bored 30- something hairdresser Leonie who falls head over heels in love with a mysterious guy she spots in a night club. I can understand why she falls for him, because the bloke (Jerome Ehlers) looks a lot like Robert Mitchum, but it quickly becomes obvious that he isn't a perfect match. The police follow him around everywhere, supposedly for unpaid parking tickets, and he openly flirts with other girls in Leonie's presence. When the young girl he cheated Leonie with turns up murdered, she suspects that he is a dangerous psychopath and yet still remains on his side. Probably the main reason why I hated "Fatal Bond" so much is because Linda Blair appears in such an atypical role for her. I'm used to seeing her as a very strong and independent leading lady (see the aforementioned titles), whereas here she depicts a weak and emotionally unstable housewife! That's not the Linda we know and worship! Aside from that, the film is mostly boring and the director doesn't succeed in generating anything that even remotely resembles to suspense or mystery. The denouement is as imbecilic as it is predictable, and I've seen better plot-twists in my grandmother's favorite soap operas on TV. Linda Blair's heavenly and world-famous breasts are unleashed – or at least one of them – during a brief sex sequences and in the obligatory shower scene. Still, not worth it

I love these small known films based on true events, though I know bits would of been slightly altered if that was an understatement. The film stars the late Jerome Ehlers, one of my favorite actors, and I was shocked to hear about his passing. Ehlers, who I consider a good actor, slips into this role perfectly as a dangerous, on the edge, handsome, impulsive, could be, psycho, killing women. He falls in love with a woman (Exorcist's Blair) who starts to suspect, he's not the guy she thinks he is, as their sexually charged relationship intensifies. They take a vacation. Ehler's character, an ex con, who's great at shirking, and outrunning authorities, I must point out, gets involved with a late teen, (it's the bikini) makes out with her that night. The next morning, she winds up dead. Was it Ehlers? Could be? He hardly reacts when seeing her photo in the paper. Ehler's character has violent tendencies, and we see this is his unlawful activities. On the whole, I really enjoyed this movie, that gets very climactic, with a shocking admittance, as the real truth comes out, which I never expected, though I really liked. Blair, I must say I liked too, and there are some funny and tasteful moments, one involving Ehler's attire that a young punk criticizes. He does get quite intimate with the young lass, before her demise, that small time actress, actually a comedian. We have other suspects that come into play of course, where I like how thrillers can be formed from true stories, without trying to be thrillers. I mean, if that's what went down, that's what went down. Truly recommended Aussie pic.

This Australian movie is up there with Red Rock West as one of the best thrillers I've seen. It has a great anti hero (Jerome Elhers) who like Nick Cage has a great edgy screen presence. This is the best film Linda Blair has been in since The Exorcist. She captures the character of the girl enraptured in this man on the run from something he won't reveal. A great film, highly recommended.