You really need to watch right to the end, when he says "I thought you were dead" and she says... well, she says a really unintentionally funny punchline after all that you have just watched.
To be fair to the cast, some of them give their all; but, they are just copying better performances of, even by then, hackneyed tropes from the days of black 'n white and the code.
The film is a not so much a story, as a vague idea for a type of villain. It's not a bad idea for a villain. In fact had it been written a thousand times better and executed well, they could have made a movie as just a sequence of genuinely horrifying scenes and the flimsiest of plots and it would have been fine.
As it stands, all I will remember of the film is someone making lengthy sexual suggestions more boringly than if she were the shipping forecast man giving a discourse on telephone directory listings.
To be fair to the cast, some of them give their all; but, they are just copying better performances of, even by then, hackneyed tropes from the days of black 'n white and the code.
The film is a not so much a story, as a vague idea for a type of villain. It's not a bad idea for a villain. In fact had it been written a thousand times better and executed well, they could have made a movie as just a sequence of genuinely horrifying scenes and the flimsiest of plots and it would have been fine.
As it stands, all I will remember of the film is someone making lengthy sexual suggestions more boringly than if she were the shipping forecast man giving a discourse on telephone directory listings.