Good movie but grossly overrated

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Lisa Rinna plays a college student typing a manuscript for a writer(Rob Estes). She falls in love with him and breaks up with her jealous boyfriend. She doesn't realize her new boyfriend is really a psychopath, even though he has pictures of Ted Bundy and Charles Manson on his wall. But then he asks her if he kills someone, if she would dissect the body for him! She then tells people that he is obsessed with killing someone. For some reason no one believes her, not even her psychology professor. She finally finds two detectives who try to help, but she also has to find out who he's actually planning to kill.One of the good things about the movie is that the actors are attractive, like someone else said. Rob Estes is a great actor and this is one of his best roles. Lisa Rinna does the best she can with a character who doesn't think her boyfriend is homicidal, until he brings up the joy of dissecting a dead body. Dean Stockwell is good as the psychology professor. I also liked Melissa McBride as Lisa's friend, as well as a possible victim.I also loved the background music. It goes great with the movie!The acting, plot, and background music make this easily one of the best TV movies.

Well, won't go into the gory details but need to react to this horrible movie. No, not horror, horrible. Written by Philip Rosenberg and directed by Neema Barnette, they missed the boat here. Not a bad concept, although been done many times, there was empathy for the villain for a change. The performance of Rob Estes, in the role may have given it the dimension it needed. Certainly some of his lines were pretty corny and predictable, yet I found myself watching him. He evidently does lots of TV dramas and soaps so I guess this is old hat to him. Still I'd like to see him do a major role in a major film to show this young man's potential.Unfortunately he had to work opposite Lisa Rinna (doesn't she do commercials?) a not so good actress who over does hysteria bulging her bug eyes out and causing her lips to look like they've had lip suction surgery done to them. Never believable in her performance and her character is so annoying, I applauded her boy friend, played by Tom Wood, when he walked out on her. Good riddance I say for him. She got so obnoxious over things that she came off as a spoiled brat. I did like Melissa McBride in a smaller role of a possible victim. She had a nice quiet energy to her work putting Rinna to shame.Sadly there is Dean Stockwell in yet another thankless role. This well deserved actor keeps popping up in these trashy LMN soap operas. Dean, come back to Broadway. Get out of the trap of these bad movies. You deserve so much better.So my vote is 4 stars for the 4 stars; Estes, Wood, McBride and the body of work from Stockwell.

I was sick from school one day, I was watching TV and I saw this movie. I'm really into thriller,cop type movies and I love this one! This movie has changed my mind on my favorite actors and now i'm a huge fan of Rob Estes'! This is truly a great movie and deserves A lot more credit then it has been given! The even more chilling thing about it is that its based on a real story. Rob Estes was excellent because he really convinced me that the character Adam was supposed to be a disturbed person. Also, I really felt the fear with Jennifer Cole (Lisa Rinna) and would hate to be put in her position! Well done Rob Estes & Lisa Rinna, Well Done! :)

When a young college woman meets an unpublished author she is impressed with a story he is attempting to get in print. They become close but things begin to unravel when she senses a strangeness in the young writer after he begins talking about interlacing his fiction with the real world. A merely adequate picture which tries to offer up a nifty twist on the old psycho thriller flic but manages only to be another in a long line of psycho thriller flics. I've seen almost this exact same storyline and ending before.