Genre: Thriller
Director: Mark L. Lester
Script: John Lutz and Larry Cohen
Producers: Dana Dubovsky and Mark L. Lester. 
Cinematography: Richard Leiterman
Editor: David Berlatsky 
Cast: Yancy Butler as Diedre Kenyon
Nick Mancuso as David Kenyon
Suzy Amis as Molly Kenyon
Babs Chula as Dr. Lillian Jonas 

Location: Toronto & Vancouver, Canada 

© American World Pictures & Lions Gate Films Inc.

David Kenyon is a successful architect who has rebuilt an aspiring life with his new wife, Molly, and son, Michael. But David has a problem that just won't go away, his first wife, Diedre.

It seems that years ago, Diedre and David (Nick Mancuso) had a tempestuous marriage marked by very rough sex and drug use. But he saw the light and cleaned himself up. She had to be institutionalized.

Diedre has gone off her medication and wants her old life back. She re-enters David's life using her seemingly radiant yet deadly charm to befriend both Molly and Michael, and only David is knowing of her sinister underlying motive...revenge. Terrorized and vulnerable, David gradually loses the love and trust of his family, the support of his lawyer and the life of a friend.

Be witness to a daring class of "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" meets "Fatal Attraction" as unbearable tension builds to an explosive ending that sees the Kenyons completely in Diedre's clutches, helpless, isolated and trapped...

Yancy delivers a riveting performance as a psychotic basket-case. Something she has apparently always wanted to do. In an interview she also said that this was a role that gave her nightmares and affected her in such a way that she couldn't leave it at work all the time. But she also said she had a lot of fun doing it though. I can imagine that it must be fun to play a character with no limits or inhibitions. 

I rather enjoyed this movie, despite the cheese. This was also one of the few pieces where she played an all out 'bad girl'. Her character in Perversions of Science was also a little unstable. In most of her other work however, she's either a cop or at least on the 'good side'. Even in Fast Money she was essentially 'good', even though her character did some questionable things from time to time. :)