***SPOILERS*** Very uneven thriller that has to do with med student Marty Hiller, Justine Bateman, trying to make ends meet in both finishing medical school and paying her rent at the same time. In pops young drifter Alec Danz, Adam Baldwin, who's more then willing to pay Marty half her rent but he first had to dispatch Phil, Mark Comacho, who answered Marty's newspaper add, in shearing her apartment, first! Smashing Phil's head in after offering to fix his flat tire, that he earlier flattened, Alec takes his squeaking loafers which will later identify him, to Marty, as Phil's killer.
We have very little information to what exactly makes Alec tick in that he seems to have no job or any means of employment even though he's what turns out to be an excellent carpenter with an unlimited supply of cash. It's later that Alec uses his carpentry skills to imprison Marty in her apartment, in a sound proof room, making her his virtual slave. It's Marty's ex Jordan, Chris Mulkey, who suspects that there's something fishy about his former Mrs' roommate in that he, at age 29, never filed an income tax return in his life!
Knowing that Jordan is on to him Alec sets up an elaborate plan to do the pesky lawyer, Jordan's profession, in. This is done by Alec setting up a scene in a fancy French Restaurant where Jordan loses his cool and later, with Alec's help, his head in a game of Russian Roulette! Alec then leaves a number of clues implicating Marty in her ex-husbands murder. Now having Marty just here he want's her Alec starts to turn the screws on her that results in Marty becoming a prisoner in her own apartment!
You have to draw your own conclusion in just why Alec is so crazy about Marty in that he goes so far, murdering four people, to get her to become his personal sex slave. For all we know Marty reminds Alec of his previous girlfriend Katherine, Dominique Perreault, whom he drove to kill herself by slashing her wrists in her bathtub. Marty knowing that she hasn't long to live as long as she's being held captive by Alec tries to kill him before he can, when he gets tired of her, murder her first!
Spiking his cheesecake with a strain of deadly botulism, that she had in a petri dish, that would have killed a full grown four ton elephant has very little effect on the love crazed, for Marty, Alec. Even with his head busted open, by Marty hitting it with a lamp, Alec only ends up spending a night in the hospital before getting back on his feet and into action. Framed, by Alec, for her ex-husband Jordan's murder the now escaped Marty tries to give herself up to the police and for once tell them her side of the story.
A now full recovered, from botulism poisoning, Alec leaving no stone unturned tracks Marty down together with her friend Theresa,Michele Scarabelli, at the safe-house that she staying at. It's then that Alec in trying to murder Marty, for both rejecting and poisoning him, gets the surprise of his life in ending up being, what he was so good at doing to others, what he never dreamed would be possible: The "Fall Guy" in the movie!
We have very little information to what exactly makes Alec tick in that he seems to have no job or any means of employment even though he's what turns out to be an excellent carpenter with an unlimited supply of cash. It's later that Alec uses his carpentry skills to imprison Marty in her apartment, in a sound proof room, making her his virtual slave. It's Marty's ex Jordan, Chris Mulkey, who suspects that there's something fishy about his former Mrs' roommate in that he, at age 29, never filed an income tax return in his life!
Knowing that Jordan is on to him Alec sets up an elaborate plan to do the pesky lawyer, Jordan's profession, in. This is done by Alec setting up a scene in a fancy French Restaurant where Jordan loses his cool and later, with Alec's help, his head in a game of Russian Roulette! Alec then leaves a number of clues implicating Marty in her ex-husbands murder. Now having Marty just here he want's her Alec starts to turn the screws on her that results in Marty becoming a prisoner in her own apartment!
You have to draw your own conclusion in just why Alec is so crazy about Marty in that he goes so far, murdering four people, to get her to become his personal sex slave. For all we know Marty reminds Alec of his previous girlfriend Katherine, Dominique Perreault, whom he drove to kill herself by slashing her wrists in her bathtub. Marty knowing that she hasn't long to live as long as she's being held captive by Alec tries to kill him before he can, when he gets tired of her, murder her first!
Spiking his cheesecake with a strain of deadly botulism, that she had in a petri dish, that would have killed a full grown four ton elephant has very little effect on the love crazed, for Marty, Alec. Even with his head busted open, by Marty hitting it with a lamp, Alec only ends up spending a night in the hospital before getting back on his feet and into action. Framed, by Alec, for her ex-husband Jordan's murder the now escaped Marty tries to give herself up to the police and for once tell them her side of the story.
A now full recovered, from botulism poisoning, Alec leaving no stone unturned tracks Marty down together with her friend Theresa,Michele Scarabelli, at the safe-house that she staying at. It's then that Alec in trying to murder Marty, for both rejecting and poisoning him, gets the surprise of his life in ending up being, what he was so good at doing to others, what he never dreamed would be possible: The "Fall Guy" in the movie!