| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Despite an enticing-yet-ridiculous-premise, this movie is compelling only because of the high quality performances - especially Robert WALKER as the psychotic murderer.
As usual with Patricia Highsmith, she gets the homosexual undercurrent to the most intense male relationships and makes this the stuff of heady fiction. However, this movie strains the limits of emotional credibility and leaves us with a fun entertainment, but one lacking much insight into psychosis.
(The longer United Kingdom version is an improvement on the so-called classic Hollywood one. It fleshes-out WALKER’s character much more - but the silly ending is still hard to swallow because the suspense is merely contrived rather than sophisticated.)
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