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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: February 6, 1987 |
Starring:
Jan Rubes, Ken Pogue, Mark Malone, Mary Steenburgen, Michael Copeman, Pamela Moller, Roddy McDowall, Sam Malkin, Wayne Robson, William Russ
Summary:
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
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There is no visible conviction in Penn's staging, but he does have a good time prowling through the cluttered decor (which comes complete with menacing stuffed animals and secret passageways), while coaxing some gaudily entertaining, highly theatrical ham-work from Rubes and McDowell. [06 Feb 1987, p.N]
Penn makes all this fun. He doesn't camp, though he's not above borrowings and homages, and you can count the Hitchcocks. Penn's approach is almost elegant, even though this is little more than a bauble. We're not supposed actually to believe any of it, but merely to come along for the ride. [11 Feb 1987, p.D7]
True, this film is a suspense exercise with a frightened woman trapped
in a house where she stands to lose her life. Some people would not call
this kind of thing entertainment, and no one can blame them. Some people
would find this story entertaining no matter how shabbily it was produced. [07 Feb 1987]
Director Arthur Penn (Bonnnie and Clyde) may have intended this to be a campy homage to Hitchcock, but instead he gives us a boring, frustrating and stupid story. [06 Feb 1987, p.A]
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