Fatal Bond

Even without the ending you can see a mile away, the boyfriend is an AWFUL person, and his girlfriend Lee (played by Linda Blair) is an utterly moronic, codependent doormat. Lee sees blaring red warning signs in literally the first minute she meets him, but she's apparently so desperate for a man that nothing matters even as he gets worse and worse and it gets to the point where she questions his guilt and she acts in an unlawful way to help him. There's NO explanation for her stupidity or her willingness to stay, as there is no character development whatsoever. Even the final choice in the movie is utterly selfish and possibly unlawful, hinting that the lack of character development is absolute. I don't know if this was Linda Blair trying to distance herself from being a child actor, but that's what the film came across as given the utter lack of depth to her character and the fact she just wants to keep having sex (he's a "minute man," btw, so what's all the fuss?) with her selfish, cheating, criminal boyfriend she suspects of being a serial killer. AND there is NO justification for her to give up her life and her business (!!!) and claim to love him--she even claims it right after saying that she doesn't know anything about him and his family! Good grief!

This movie irritated me. Everything about it was unpleasant and dumb. If you want to watch a film about how stupid women met obvious red flags before the existence of dating apps (I imagine she met him through the MadTV tape dating service, Lowered Expectations), then this is the film for you!

S/N: He keeps littering with gusto throughout the film, usually alcohol-based containers like bottles and cans, even off of her apartment balcony. That's annoying enough to be a red flag that he's an inconsiderate slob.

This Australian movie is up there with Red Rock West as one of the best thrillers I've seen. It has a great anti hero (Jerome Elhers) who like Nick Cage has a great edgy screen presence. This is the best film Linda Blair has been in since The Exorcist. She captures the character of the girl enraptured in this man on the run from something he won't reveal. A great film, highly recommended.

I love this movie. I saw it a few years ago on cable. What could be better than Linda Blair in Australia trying to learn Italian while she is dating a hot dark-haired guy? There is something for everyone here: hot scenes of both Linda Blair and Jerome Ehlers (the male lead), nice scenery of Australia, and a sense of mystery. I think overall what helps the movie is the cinematography. Try catching it on cable.

I wanted to see what became of Linda Blair. Everybody of my age (born in 1963) knows her for we know what. In here she is at the height of her beauty around age 30. But only her cute face and body worth the watch.

This is a VERY cheap production. The filming, the sound is annoying with always either some back ground noises or the cheap music score in almost every scene. Unwatchable!

And the plot. At the very beginning she sees a violent man, protect him from the bouncers, hop in his car right away, make love with him withing five minutes, moves in with him the very same day, stayed with him even if he is violent and maybe a killer... Wow!

Won't tell you what happens after. But be prepared for a cheap production and it's hard to stay all the way until the end.

For die-hard Linda Blair's fan only to see what she can do 15 years after the only movie she will be remembered for...

Well okay, "Fatal Bond" was an awful film and an incredible waste of time, but at least I got to laugh really hard once, because afterwards when I browsed through the reviews here, I read someone's comment that this is – and I quote – "the best film Linda Blair has been in since The Exorcist". He or she seriously must be joking?!? I'll admit that lovely Linda hasn't appeared in many Oscar-worthy films since "The Exorcist", but this one has got to be one of her absolute worst accomplishments, on par with the dreadful "The Chilling" and "Moving Target". In case anyone is looking for real Linda Blair highlights, check out the awesomely entertaining "Chained Heat", "Savage Streets" and maybe even the crazy "Witchcraft" in which she stars alongside the one and only David Hasselhoff. This thing, on the contrary, is a horribly derivative, predictable and textbook thriller (it feels like a TV-movie although it isn't one) that shouldn't even be available anymore. Produced in Australia, but certainly not representative for the quality cult/exploitation cinema they usually make over there, "Fatal Bond" is full of clichés and dull sequences. Blair stars as the bored 30- something hairdresser Leonie who falls head over heels in love with a mysterious guy she spots in a night club. I can understand why she falls for him, because the bloke (Jerome Ehlers) looks a lot like Robert Mitchum, but it quickly becomes obvious that he isn't a perfect match. The police follow him around everywhere, supposedly for unpaid parking tickets, and he openly flirts with other girls in Leonie's presence. When the young girl he cheated Leonie with turns up murdered, she suspects that he is a dangerous psychopath and yet still remains on his side. Probably the main reason why I hated "Fatal Bond" so much is because Linda Blair appears in such an atypical role for her. I'm used to seeing her as a very strong and independent leading lady (see the aforementioned titles), whereas here she depicts a weak and emotionally unstable housewife! That's not the Linda we know and worship! Aside from that, the film is mostly boring and the director doesn't succeed in generating anything that even remotely resembles to suspense or mystery. The denouement is as imbecilic as it is predictable, and I've seen better plot-twists in my grandmother's favorite soap operas on TV. Linda Blair's heavenly and world-famous breasts are unleashed – or at least one of them – during a brief sex sequences and in the obligatory shower scene. Still, not worth it