(There are Spoilers) On her way home to Albequerque NM architect Samantha "Sam" Kimball, Faye Dunaway, is side swiped by a tractor-trailer and has her front windshield smashed. Stopping off at the nearest town, Hazleton Texas, to get the car windshield fixed Sam is told by the car mechanic Gene, Ritch Brinkley, that it would take at least a day to get the part and decides to stay at the local hotel overnight. It's then when Sam's real troubles start and they have nothing to do with her damaged car.
Looking out the window at night Sam sees and hears a fight across the street in the building next to her hotel room. The woman involved in the altercation Marianna Herrera, Talisa Soto,a barmaid at the saloon that Sam had a few drinks at earlier that evening is knocked down to the floor and savagely stabbed to death. the killer a man only seen in shadow looks outside and sees Sam looking straight at him.
The movie "Sihouette" has Sam stalked by the killer even though at first the towns sheriff Kayle Lauder, David Rasche, and his deputy Pete Shroeder, Jon Terry, think that both the dead Marianna and her killer are just a figment of Sam's imagination. It's not until Marianna's body is discovered by Gene and his assistant Ben Styles, Ron Campball, murdered and stuffed in a 50 gallon drum that Sam is taken seriously. You always see the killer in shadows and he seems to be oblivious to him being caught or discovered. This makes you feel that he's either well-connected or insane or both. The killer stalks and at one point almost kills Sam but also goes as far as inciting the murdered Marianna's hot-headed but not too logical older brother Eddie, Carlos Gomez, and his friends on the poor and innocent Sam. He does this by calling Eddie on the phone telling him that his sisters killer was caught and is now in the local jail-house; Sam was put in the jail by Sheriff Lauder for her own protection not because she was a suspect in Marianna's murder as Eddie was made to believe.
Sam getting in touch with her daughter Sandra, Kiersten Warren, in Albuquerque to come to Hazelton and take her home later has the killer get to Sandra before she can get to her mother. After kidnapping her he sends Sam a message, with a lock of Sandra's hair, to come to this place in Whitewater, Ben Styles house, if she ever want's to see her daughter Sadra alive again.
The ending has Sam tricked by who she thinks is Ben, who's about the creepiest and most guilty looking person in the movie, but is obviously someone else to come and get Sandra. Which turns out to be a trap to get her and shut her up for good by Marianna's real killer feeling that she's the only person who can identify him. Double-surprise ending has the killer reveal himself only to get it from behind and then like a zombie, coming back from the dead, come back for more. The second time around he isn't so lucky with the meek non-violent and gun fearing Sam getting enough courage to pull the trigger, on her 12 gage shotgun, blasting him away and straight out of existence.
Looking out the window at night Sam sees and hears a fight across the street in the building next to her hotel room. The woman involved in the altercation Marianna Herrera, Talisa Soto,a barmaid at the saloon that Sam had a few drinks at earlier that evening is knocked down to the floor and savagely stabbed to death. the killer a man only seen in shadow looks outside and sees Sam looking straight at him.
The movie "Sihouette" has Sam stalked by the killer even though at first the towns sheriff Kayle Lauder, David Rasche, and his deputy Pete Shroeder, Jon Terry, think that both the dead Marianna and her killer are just a figment of Sam's imagination. It's not until Marianna's body is discovered by Gene and his assistant Ben Styles, Ron Campball, murdered and stuffed in a 50 gallon drum that Sam is taken seriously. You always see the killer in shadows and he seems to be oblivious to him being caught or discovered. This makes you feel that he's either well-connected or insane or both. The killer stalks and at one point almost kills Sam but also goes as far as inciting the murdered Marianna's hot-headed but not too logical older brother Eddie, Carlos Gomez, and his friends on the poor and innocent Sam. He does this by calling Eddie on the phone telling him that his sisters killer was caught and is now in the local jail-house; Sam was put in the jail by Sheriff Lauder for her own protection not because she was a suspect in Marianna's murder as Eddie was made to believe.
Sam getting in touch with her daughter Sandra, Kiersten Warren, in Albuquerque to come to Hazelton and take her home later has the killer get to Sandra before she can get to her mother. After kidnapping her he sends Sam a message, with a lock of Sandra's hair, to come to this place in Whitewater, Ben Styles house, if she ever want's to see her daughter Sadra alive again.
The ending has Sam tricked by who she thinks is Ben, who's about the creepiest and most guilty looking person in the movie, but is obviously someone else to come and get Sandra. Which turns out to be a trap to get her and shut her up for good by Marianna's real killer feeling that she's the only person who can identify him. Double-surprise ending has the killer reveal himself only to get it from behind and then like a zombie, coming back from the dead, come back for more. The second time around he isn't so lucky with the meek non-violent and gun fearing Sam getting enough courage to pull the trigger, on her 12 gage shotgun, blasting him away and straight out of existence.
