Breaking Her Will

This masterpiece excels on many levels. The viewer is immediately affected viscerally. The tension is so high that I almost had to turn it off. What surprised me was that, unlike other movies that spend most of ACT 1 introducing you to the characters, the director claims that you don't have to know anything about a person who is getting hurt in order to feel sympathy for him/her.

Details of all characters unfold in subtle ways, and if you are too programmed by mainstream movies NOT to think, then you will miss the genius. I don't want to give any of these points away because it's so easy to spoil the twists, and there are MANY.

The music is also an impressive tool. There's a song that would otherwise seem romantic, with words "And when the winter is done you will be back in my arms" and "100 miles aren't so far away." - but in the mind of a stalker, that's not romantic, it's scary.

Brian Gleitz gives a superb performance as the villain - a villain whose pain can make you feel sympathetic for him even though he does some terrible things. I've watched this repeatedly. No wonder so many horror mags are praising this movie! It's not for idiots who can't read the synopsis.