Dans les griffes de mon patient

This one is an okay thriller. Typical Fatal Attraction-style film but not bad if there's nothing else to watch during what's turning out to be our Covid-19 quarantine decade lol.

Of the gajillion moments in this film that had me face-palming and throwing my hands up, it's the exchange that occurred just after the 67 minute mark that finally made me lose it with the sheer, maddening stupidity of every character in this movie.

The scene starts with the lead woman getting a video call from her psycho stalker in which she recognizes his location and says, "My God that's my house." Then... man, then she engages him in conversation with befuddlement like she STILL hasn't grasped that this guy has been behind everything the whole movie (the murders, the sabotage, the hacking, the break-ins) despite having already made that conclusion a few times by now in earlier scenes.

She checklists the deadly events of the film as he 'evil-genius' explains how and why he did them. All to her shocked bewilderment (again, despite scenes having already shown her figuring things out just minutes ago). And then, astoundingly, less than 2-minutes into this exchange she asks him, "Where are you?"

Seriously?!?

"Where are you?"

She goes from 'That's my house' to 'Where are you' in the matter of 100 seconds?!

She knows that her sick mother is at home, the same home that she recognized the stalker is currently calling her from. The same stalker who had just admitted to murdering her best friend, his previous girlfriends, a guy she met earlier, and got her fiance fired.

Yet she finishes the rest of this scene trying to respectfully plead with the guy to go find psychological help.

That scene is merely just one of many like it in this film and I still have another 17 minutes left to go.

Sigh.

***edit: WTF?! Literally another 2 minutes later this entire conversation happens again when she calls her sick mom, shocked to learn that there is a mysterious male nurse there with her now. The woman asks to put him on the phone and... to her shock and horror discovers that the nurse is actually... her stalker! And he's in her house!!

The very same stalker who had just video called her only minutes ago from that very same house. And once again she kindly pleads for him to seek mental help.

That's it. I'm done. I don't care how it ends. These back-to-back scenes have already killed too many braincells.

This movie is my favourite movie ever. It really captures the lovely beauty of the actors and directors. The storyline is perfect and I love the way Hillary dealt with the sticky situations that she came across. Gregory Lipton was a really great character choice and it really fitted the actor. Gregory Lipton was so naughty and the directors really succeeded in making me dislike He's character. Gregory Lipton was a creepy stalker that would think of really good ways to murder everyone Hillary loved as he loved her soooooo much. Although I loved Gregory and he was the reason I kept watching. 6 years later from the release and I have just finished watching the movie for the 361,497th time. An incredible movie would definitely recommend and I'm about to watch it for the 361,498th time! I can't wait for that and I just love Gregory Lipton. PLEASE MAKE A DEADLY PATIENT NUMBER 2 AND AS ELON MUSK I WILL PAY $200 BILLION TO WATCH IT!!!

PS: GREGORY LIPTON HAS REALLY INSPIRED ME TO BE LIKE HIM AND I AM GOING TO FULFIL MY DREAMS OF BEING GREGORY LIPTON. THANJ YOU FOR THE INSPIRATION GREGORY AND IF YOU SEE ELON MUSK ON THE NEWS STALKING PEOPLE THATS ME!!!

No surprises here. From the get go we are introduced to the wacko of the week - a jilted guy who kills his ex Girlfriend then falls for the doctor in the hospital after he stages a murder suicide.

Sometimes a twist is good and this one is just too much plain sailing. The acting by the wacko is very obvious.

Could have been better. One of the worst Lifetime type movies I've ever seen as in acting was laughable, plot had opportunity to be good but missed the mark. Was very predictable & the ending sadly leaves an opening for a sequel...eeek.

Only positive thing is that it makes you think just how easily this could result happen & probably happens more than we know in real life.

Scary thought that there really are people who live in a fantasy world & are willing to do whatever it takes to get the object of their desire.

The villain certainly had the creep factor so iI'll give the Producers that.

But please don't breed with a sequel lol.