L'ombra del nemico

Even though LIVING IN PERIL has got a remarkable **swedish** feeling over it it S*U*C*K*S BIG TIME!

It has got simularities to just-as-awful CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED like so many other movies throughout Hollywood's history.

1. Laughable horrors. Nobody ever thought that white headed children was frightening, nor rats.

2. Stupid script, aka IDIOT-POLICE and A SILLY BAD-GUY.

and the classic one

3. ACTORS THAT ARE FUN TO WATCH JUST BECAUSE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUS!!!! Just take Rob Lowe and James Belushi! And I thought the mix with Christopher Reeve, Mark Hamill, and Kirstey Alley was fun!

Otherwise we have great actors like Dean Stockwell and Earl Boen getting awfully thrown away.

Allow be to bring out a 3/10

I thought it was a very thrilling movie. The most people that don't enjoy those kind of movies are semi-blind and used to see only those 8.0+ mainstream movies. This isn't like that. This actually has a different vibe to it. If you truly are a thriller fan you will love it.

Architect Rob Lowe is Living in Peril when he travels to Los Angeles to present his drawings to wealthy builder James Belushi. And after he rents a flat in grumpy Dean Stockwell's apartment building, he has to deal with these two eccentric gentlemen as well as a sexually aggressive neighbour, a happy-go-lucky German, and an angry truck driver who was recently fired by his employer after Lowe complained about his driving.

This obscure film by the Swedish Ersgård brothers is worth a look, if not because of the story in itself, then because of the film's eccentric, evocative tone. An important factor in this is the nostalgic musical score and set direction, which together create an almost Hitchcockesque mood. The Ersgård brothers obviously knew what they wanted, and the film is also suspenseful on its own quirky level. There are lots of characters, entanglements and situations, and although our protagonist's choices sometimes seem more driven by the plot than by common sense, the film's stylized nature allows it to get away with that. The Ersgård brothers made a few more movies in the years following this, before disappearing from the scene.

I don't understand why is there so bad reviews. This movie thrilled me from begin to end. This is good written story, I usually suppose the end or the killer, but there was only in 50%. The civil acting of Rob Lowe is good, James Belushi played here an unusual role and funny is a part of Dean Stockwell as apartment manager. I think he enjoyed this part. Sometimes this movie is black comedy, but the end is quite brutal than previous parts of movie, I think it could be shorter (classic long final fight between bad/good boy).

It has Rob Lowe, which is good, but unfortunately the movie was just bad. There was a lot of random yelling, the acting was somewhat wooden in places and way to campy in others, and while you were apparently supposed to care about the peril Rob was in, you just didn't. As Rob so eloquently yelled somewhere in one of his paranoid tirades, 'Rat p*ss'. Yeah, that about sums it up.