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Bo Derek may always be worthy of the title of a "Perfect 10." Unfortunately, this stinker of a film ranks as a perfect 1.

The acting was wooden, and the directorial emphasis on close-ups made the lackluster dialogue even less credible. It was never believable that Derek's character of Mrs. Katherine Sullivan was suffering from agoraphobia when she uttered such lines as "sometimes I get so lonely" to her paramour.

Early in the film, Mrs. Sullivan's husband Charles is murdered. But the entire death scene is called into question when no body is discovered, and the police officers who arrive on the scene are imposters.

Enter private investigator Jack Mize, a former attorney who graduated second in his class at Harvard Law School, then messed up when he succeeded in getting a killer acquitted. The murderer then went on a rampage, leading Jack to renounce the law. Yet, curiously, he seems to feel no remorse when he recalls his disgraceful conduct to Mrs. Sullivan as her new private eye, as well as her lover.

When Jack and Mrs. Sullivan begin an affair, there never seemed to be much passion between them. The attempt was made to get a feeling of claustrophobia in Mrs. Sullivan's home to convey her agoraphobia through extreme close-ups. But the result was merely awkward compositional choices and clumsy cinematography.

The slow pacing and lack of development in the characters were more off-putting features of this film. It was never made clear whether the spider and the rats were the work of Mrs. Sullivan's strange sister Sarah. But, alas, the sister apparently did not survive a fall down the stairwell to help tidy up the loose plot strands in this turkey of a film.

I cannot believe that I actually watched this terrible movie to the end. It moved at a snail's pace, and the acting was atrocious. The dialogue was absurdly bad, and the whole plot was a WTF. I can see where someone thought another version of Gaslight would be interesting, but this was just half-baked garbage. Avoid this movie at all costs. It has absolutely no redeeming features.

Uggh, I have to type more in order to submit, so yada yada yada this is probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The acting really was insanely bad, like can't these actors know how awful they are? A major embarassment for all involved, and we're talking Bo Derek standards, so you don't expect much in the way of acting to begin with. Skip this.