Alone with Her (2007)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 9
Alone With Her is a tense psychological thriller that overcomes its contrivances with fine performances and a perpetually unsettling mood.
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 7
Alone With Her is a tense psychological thriller that overcomes its contrivances with fine performances and a perpetually unsettling mood.
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A quiet but disturbed young man puts the life of a woman he's obsessed with under a virtual microscope in this independent psychological thriller. Amy (Ana Claudia Talancón) is an attractive young woman who has recently broken up with her boyfriend and is feeling a bit lonely. Amy isn't so sure she's ready to start dating again, but she keeps bumping into Doug (Colin Hanks), a geeky but friendly guy who goes out of his way to be nice to her and seems to have very similar tastes and interests.
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Alone With Her is a pretty engaging tale, and it's refreshing to see a well-acted, suspenseful drama made without a bloated budget or a lot of bloodletting.
Alone With Her plays like an extended voyeur video with nothing new to say about hidden cameras or stalkers or anything.
Even a conventional, albeit cynical, ending can't ruin such effective mood-making.
... this low-budget horror flick builds some claustrophobic tension out of modern anxieties, but it won't scare the bejesus out of you.
Top CriticLeadenly scripted and blandly overliteral and therefore never capitalizes on the provocativeness of its premise.
Alone With Her has the kind of high ick factor that leaves you squirming -- not because Doug is so diabolical a creation, but because what he does to satisfy his pathology is so practical.
What sets the film a notch above standard genre fare is its ability to ask bigger questions about a stalker like Doug.
A neatly insinuating idea, flawlessly executed, Alone With Her marks out its stars and director as ones to watch.
A smart, unsettling drama that finds new uses for tatics devised by movies like The Stepfather and The Blair Witch Project.
A novel spin on an oft-told tale, Alone with Her is a fine little indie indeed. What could have been just another gimmick flick turns out to be a pretty intense ride.
The moral of the story: If you meet someone whose tastes mirror your own to a scary degree, then by all means, be scared.
Despite its cleverness, however, nearly everything is predictable; in a sense, this is a higher-tech version of The Collector, and it doesn't really take us anywhere we haven't been many times before.
This isn't a psychological horror film so much as a slice-of-life twentysomething tale, in which one party happens to be quietly very not-normal.
An unsettling tale of modern espionage horror.
Alone with Her has a dog and a rampant sense of dread, the kind you don't recover from for at least a few days. I'm on the first day.
exudes the overall uncomfortable air of watching a depraved home movie
Alone With Her is a tense, well-shot little thriller in the vein of 'fatal attraction' youth flicks like Fear, The Crush, and Swimfan.
Through Hanks' and Talancon's subtle, naturalistic performance [writer-director Eric Nicholas] cultivates a human dimension often missing from thrillers.
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In Los Angeles, the psychopath Doug stalks the sexy Latin woman Amy is a park and follows her.
REVIEW
Shot entirely using body cams and spy cams, the movie attempts to explore the horror of the increase in stalking due to the advances in and availability of technology. The movie begins with a stalker, played by Colin Hanks, filming women at the beach and at the park, obviously searching for a victim. He chooses a girl, played by Ana Claudia Talancón, and begins following her, planting cameras in her apartment and slowly inserting himself into her life, using the knowledge he gained from the cameras to find common ground. I could see what the writer/director was trying to accomplish, but it was not entertaining enough to hold my interest without taking breaks. The acting was mostly convincing, although there were some spells of poor acting. The ending seemed very film-school and amateur.