Paranoia (1998)
A girl, whose entire family was murdered by a serial killer, tries to isolate herself in New York City. Her fear escalates when the murderer starts stalking her on the internet. With his prison sentence about to end, the game of cat and mouse begins.
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PARANOIA is a pretty uninteresting late addition to the run of psycho-thriller movies that had begun with FATAL ATTRACTION over a decade previously. This story has a young woman, played by Brigitte Barko who gives an indifferent performance, the sole survivor of a massacre by a serial killer which slaughtered her family. Years later, she's trying to live a normal life when she discovers that the killer is about to be released on parole. This low budget oddity singularly fails to deliver any thrills or suspense, but the narrative structure is quite interesting and there are enough twists to keep you mildly involved. The great Larry Drake, best known as the baddie in DARKMAN, gives the best performance as the killer.
This movie was weird!! This psycho killer Calvin(Larry Drake, whom I surprised wasted his talent on this one)kills a little girl's family. The little girl manages to escape from being killed by hiding in the hallway closet. Anyways, the killer gets only 20 years in jail for killing three people(Yeah right, he would've gotten the chair or something but then it wouldn't be a movie)and after the girl is grown up, the killer manages to contact her via email.(I never knew they let prisoners have laptops and access to the internet. Impossible? Only in Hollywood)So the killer gets out of jail and stalks her so that he can kill her and finish the job. The ending was the most pointless and dumbest endings I've ever seen in a movie, and the scene where the killer(Drake) is having sex with a teenaged boy in the woods, is beyond gross.(Makes you think, was he a killer or a perverted child molester?) The beginning was pretty good and the rest was just a waste of time. If you have absolutely nothing else to watch, then maybe this movie might do!!
Ludicruous, almost amateur thriller about a killer (Drake) who gets out of the prison just to terrorize a young woman (Bako) who is the only survivor of the last crime of the bad guy. Weak plot, predictable all the way, extremely boring and with some campy performances, especially Drake, absolutely unconvincing and far - fetched. Don't lose your time and your money. I give this a 3 (three).
I enjoy finding offbeat titles at the video store. Most that I find are pretty bad in the horror market. This film isn't Shakespeare, but Larry (DR Giggles) Drake is fun to watch. ** 2 stars. Give it a look on a rainy day.