DIRECTED BY Charles Correll
YEAR 1992
ALSO STARRING
Rosanna Arquette

BEST QUOTE
Not really a very meaningful quote, but interesting because it is the last line that Tony would ever deliver in his career - After the serial killer is shot by Arquette, he whispers something to her and then dies. Tony then asks her, "What did he say?" and she replies, "He asked me to kiss him goodnight."

BEST MOMENT
At the end of Tony and Arquette's talk in his house, he offends her by again implying that the killer is her brother Tommy. She gets up and says, "You know what? Whoever the killer is, you're as crazy as he is!" It only lasts for about one second, but his reaction to that line is priceless- the way he tilts his head at the same time is like, "Would you stop with the f***ing Psycho jokes already?! 32 years, dammit!"

WORST MOMENT
I couldn't find any real fault in his performance here, I just wanted to enjoy it and watched with total respect, knowing it was the last film he would ever make. But there is a very bad piece of filmmaking when Arquette confronts her brother, then Tony walks in and points the gun at him and is about to shoot, but she knocks him to the wall and her brother rushes over and gives him a right punch in the face. STUNTMAN!! Watch it and you'll see- it's sooooo obvious, you can see his face and everything!

MY REVIEW
I was SO worried about this one. Because it was Tony's last film, I really wanted it to be good, you know? I didn't want him to do the whole psycho thing, and I was also concerned that as it was filmed only a matter of months before his death, he would look ill. And although for the first time, he does actually look old, it was pretty good! Thankyou for making him a good guy in it!! After watching this, I didn't go away feeling depressed, it just re-confirmed that yes, Anthony Perkins rocks.

He plays the part of a private investigator, who is bent on tracking down the "Deep Woods killer"- a maniac who preys on successful career women, tortures them, and leaves their bodies in the deep woods. Well, he gets the idea that Rosanna Arquette's brother is the killer and so begins to follow her, believing that she's the only one who can get him to stop. It annoyed me however that when he was following her around, they kept doing that suspicious camera work around him to make him look like a weirdo. Although, I suppose it was pretty clever, because it distracts attention away from who it could actually be! Yeah, get Anthony Perkins, the audience will be going, "It's gotta be him!" so that at the end he can go, "Haaa!! No it's not! I told you so!"

It's an extremely well written film, it reminds me so much of The Silence Of The Lambs (excellent movie...) because the killer pretends to be handicapped and lures his young victims into helping him before WHAM! they're dead. There are plenty of twists the whole way through, as little pieces of information are revealed. I think my guess at who the killer was changed about three or four times... and all of them were wrong! Rosanna Arquette is great at just being hysterical (see bit when she finds a bloody scarf in her boyfriend's car trunk), I'd never seen her in a movie before but I loved her in this. This is an odd comment to make, but I think she has a really nice shaped face and an almost mouse-like profile.

One BIG surprise in this movie that you should look out for is the woman who plays Tommy's lawyer. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Zelda from TV's Sabrina The Teenage Witch! I used to watch that show ALL the time as a teenager, I nearly had a fit when she came up! I was like, it's ZELDA, it's ZELDA!! And another thing, if Perkins' character never married after his fiance was killed, then how come he is wearing a wedding ring?? By the way, a key message I got from this film is "Cigarettes kill!" Literally! HA! Yes, ok, ok, I have a strange sense of humour... leave me alone.

SEE THIS IF YOU LIKE:
The Silence of the Lambs, True Crime, Seven