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Young bachelor Babee is looking after his dead mother's estate when married couple Keith and Vera move in. Babee becomes attracted to them by the beautiful Vera and the risk taking Keith. However at a party Vera crashes her car, putting Keith into a coma. When Keith comes out he is in a semi-vegetative state and must rely on Vera to look after him. Keith can't move or speak but reveals to Babee that he can still talk and starts to kill those that wronged him with Babee's help.

This starts reasonably enough - it looks like a femme-fatale type deal. However after the accident (early on in the film) it all gets a bit silly and doesn't make sense any more. The main problem is the ridiculous idea of this man totally paralysed rolling into people in his wheelchair to kill them. The fact that the innocent Babee, so attracted to Vera, would assist him to do things in secret is even more unlikely. And the ending is just absurd - not only the set-up but the conclusion.

Virginia Madsen is quite good in the role of Vera. Likewise Thomas Newton and Vanessa Dorman are good as Babee and Elle respectively. However Hauer seems to have lost any ability to pick good roles - Bladerunner and the Hitcher were clearly early flukes. He spends most of his time in a wheelchair and looks stupid as he pretends to be a vegetable, he really has a thankless role.

Overall this is a sloppy film. It has several good performances but the plot is very thin - at times it feels like no one knows what they're doing. What plot there is (paralysed man in a wheelchair bumps people off) is stupid and badly handled. Overall, an occasionally embarrassing mess.

Obviously a low budget film that went straight to video, but hugely better than most that fit that bill, and better than many so-called studio thrillers as well. While it's not jump in your seat scary, it's more creepy, foreboding, and surprisingly literate. How many movies quote from "Day of the Locust" which ties into the plot as well. This movie is saying quite a bit, I think, about Hollywood, illusion and reality, etc. And it's got Virginia Madsen showing us her thong underwear on the beach!

This is another boring film done by Rutger Huger. His career has been on the down slide for many years. I think he should just call it quits. He played a good weirdo but the story was lacking. The rest of the cast were no names and desperately needed acting lessons. Do yourself a favor and bypass this one. 5/10

In this movie, Vera (Virginia Madsen) does a drunken, beachfront striptease, although her character quickly sobers up and realizes the inappropriateness of her actions. The abortive dance, with no overt nudity ,was one of the most erotic scenes in my recent cinema experience.

Obviously, eroticism is in the eye of the beholder, but if you find Virginia Madsen as attractive as I do, you'll want to track this film down.

I admit I'm a big Rutger fan, which is why I rented the movie, and Virginia Madsen is no slouch either. And I must say I was quite impressed with the film! It's not jump out of your seat scary, more creepy and foreboding. Pretty good acting all around (I especially liked Thomas Newton) and solid direction, camera, etc. But the thing is, I realized at the end of the movie that it's not about Babee, the young, reclusive artist, but about the girl next door! I think she may be the true crazy! Pretty good script, interesting little film. I totally recommend this little gem!