(There are Spoilers) Casing out the Michaels' residence Dan Summer, using the name Brain Heartwell, plans to move in but there's only one problem. The spare room for rent is already occupied. Being a guy who doesn't take no for an answer Dan fixes that pressing problem by murdering not only the occupant of the room Carrie but her boyfriend Daryl as well!
Having just been released from the Greely Mental Institution Dan, taking the name of his psychiatrist, wants only one thing in life: Get even with the person who drove his dad, a former Teacher of the Year, to kill himself! That person just happens to be Jessica Michaels! The person whom he's about to rent a room from in her house!
Jessica as a young girl was inappropriately touched by her drama teacher Mr.Summer who tried to get into her pants or dress. Mr. Summer being indited for sexual molestation and fired from his job hanged himself on Christmas Eve with his nine-year-old son Dan discovering his body! Dan having it in for Jessica all these years is now in the position to finally get even. **SPOILER ALERT***What Dan will later find out is that his "innocent" dad was a serial rapist with one of his victims being his daughter, and Dan's sister, Andrea. Dan in his deteriorating mental state loses focus on what he's supposed to do by murdering some half dozen persons before he finally get around to his original intended victim Jessica Michaels.
A I was watching the movie I kept wondering just how this very obvious off-the-wall and dangerous psycho was released, if in fact he escaped, from the Greely Mental Institution in the first place! Dan was anything but smart in what he did where you can spot his weirdo-like insanity as soon as you laid eyes on him. So why didn't the psychiatrist see that at the institution that he was committed to! In fact it seemed like nobody in the movie except Jessica's adopted daughter Laura had even an inkling to how crazy Dan was. And Laura was just your normal high-school teenager not a certified or licensed doctor or psychiatrist!
The film tries, with very little success, to follow the usual pattern of the psycho pretending to be normal storyline except that Dan is anything but normal in the movie. Murdering persons like Jessica's dad Mr. Michaels who actually liked the crazy nut as well as his girlfriend, like him a former mental patient, Rachael who, despite treating her like dirt, worshiped the ground he walked on didn't help Dan either. All that did was just throw suspicion on Dan to what a loose nut and potential psycho killer he really was.
Having just been released from the Greely Mental Institution Dan, taking the name of his psychiatrist, wants only one thing in life: Get even with the person who drove his dad, a former Teacher of the Year, to kill himself! That person just happens to be Jessica Michaels! The person whom he's about to rent a room from in her house!
Jessica as a young girl was inappropriately touched by her drama teacher Mr.Summer who tried to get into her pants or dress. Mr. Summer being indited for sexual molestation and fired from his job hanged himself on Christmas Eve with his nine-year-old son Dan discovering his body! Dan having it in for Jessica all these years is now in the position to finally get even. **SPOILER ALERT***What Dan will later find out is that his "innocent" dad was a serial rapist with one of his victims being his daughter, and Dan's sister, Andrea. Dan in his deteriorating mental state loses focus on what he's supposed to do by murdering some half dozen persons before he finally get around to his original intended victim Jessica Michaels.
A I was watching the movie I kept wondering just how this very obvious off-the-wall and dangerous psycho was released, if in fact he escaped, from the Greely Mental Institution in the first place! Dan was anything but smart in what he did where you can spot his weirdo-like insanity as soon as you laid eyes on him. So why didn't the psychiatrist see that at the institution that he was committed to! In fact it seemed like nobody in the movie except Jessica's adopted daughter Laura had even an inkling to how crazy Dan was. And Laura was just your normal high-school teenager not a certified or licensed doctor or psychiatrist!
The film tries, with very little success, to follow the usual pattern of the psycho pretending to be normal storyline except that Dan is anything but normal in the movie. Murdering persons like Jessica's dad Mr. Michaels who actually liked the crazy nut as well as his girlfriend, like him a former mental patient, Rachael who, despite treating her like dirt, worshiped the ground he walked on didn't help Dan either. All that did was just throw suspicion on Dan to what a loose nut and potential psycho killer he really was.