(Some Spoilers) Since she was a little girl Donielle Driscoll had a gift that terrified her and caused her not to have any lasting relationships all through her adult life; the gift of psychic perception. Now grown up with a teenage daughter, Racheal, Donielle move to the quite and sleepy fishing village of Stevston B.C to start a new life.
Not having any skills Donielle or Donnie gets a job as a cocktail waitress at the local watering hole bar The Wild Duck and it's there on her first night on the job that she meets Doug Brister. The movie "Vision of Murder" doesn't keep it's audience in suspense to who the serial murderer on the loose is. Were shown right away that this guy Doug is a little short circuited upstairs.
Although Doug at first comes across to Donnie as a Knight in Shining Armor we quickly see that there's something very disturbing going on inside of his mind and Donnie quickly picks up his vibrations as soon as she picks up a shot glass of booze that he was drinking out of.
Going with her gut feelings about Doug, that he's a murderer, Donnie still can't bring herself to fear him. With that little boy smile and puppy dog eyes it's hard for her, as well as those of us watching, to believe that sweet kind and chivalrous Doug can do the things that Donnie feels that he's not only capable of doing but did already.
Even though the movie has a very capable cast with Melissa Gilbert in the lead role as Donnie Driscoll with her fellow waitress Gloria sensitively as well as tragically, played by Maria Conchita Alonso and Rip Torn in a small but important role as the policemen on the case of the Steveston serial killings Det. Manny Garett it's Thomas Ian Griffith as the killer Doug Brister who not only steals the acting honors in the movie but steals every scene that he's in.
Griffih plays the murderous Doug Brister so cool and chillingly that he makes you understand why serial killers, of mostly women, are so effective in real life like he is in the movie. There are, to be fair, a number of plot lines in the film that don't quite come across that convincingly.
After Donnie goes to the police pleading for them to help stop Doug from murdering a local teenage girl, that she saw him murder in a vision of her's, Donnie later refused to cooperate with the local authorities when her vision of the murder was confirmed. With the girl's body found floating in Steveston Bay? There's also the scene where Doug comes home one night on his motorcycle and finds his live in girlfriend, and accomplice in his murders,Claire with another man. The man is later found murdered by Doug but we never see or hear from Claire again in the movie! did Doug murder her as well?
Like in the movie "The Wolfman" with Lon Chaney Jr we see Doug morph from a Dr.Jekyll to a Mr. Hyde-like character right before our eyes but unlike with Lon Chaney Jr's. Wolfman where it took pounds of makeup and reels of film to make it work for Thomas Griffith it only took his chillingly and effective acting to do the same thing.
Not having any skills Donielle or Donnie gets a job as a cocktail waitress at the local watering hole bar The Wild Duck and it's there on her first night on the job that she meets Doug Brister. The movie "Vision of Murder" doesn't keep it's audience in suspense to who the serial murderer on the loose is. Were shown right away that this guy Doug is a little short circuited upstairs.
Although Doug at first comes across to Donnie as a Knight in Shining Armor we quickly see that there's something very disturbing going on inside of his mind and Donnie quickly picks up his vibrations as soon as she picks up a shot glass of booze that he was drinking out of.
Going with her gut feelings about Doug, that he's a murderer, Donnie still can't bring herself to fear him. With that little boy smile and puppy dog eyes it's hard for her, as well as those of us watching, to believe that sweet kind and chivalrous Doug can do the things that Donnie feels that he's not only capable of doing but did already.
Even though the movie has a very capable cast with Melissa Gilbert in the lead role as Donnie Driscoll with her fellow waitress Gloria sensitively as well as tragically, played by Maria Conchita Alonso and Rip Torn in a small but important role as the policemen on the case of the Steveston serial killings Det. Manny Garett it's Thomas Ian Griffith as the killer Doug Brister who not only steals the acting honors in the movie but steals every scene that he's in.
Griffih plays the murderous Doug Brister so cool and chillingly that he makes you understand why serial killers, of mostly women, are so effective in real life like he is in the movie. There are, to be fair, a number of plot lines in the film that don't quite come across that convincingly.
After Donnie goes to the police pleading for them to help stop Doug from murdering a local teenage girl, that she saw him murder in a vision of her's, Donnie later refused to cooperate with the local authorities when her vision of the murder was confirmed. With the girl's body found floating in Steveston Bay? There's also the scene where Doug comes home one night on his motorcycle and finds his live in girlfriend, and accomplice in his murders,Claire with another man. The man is later found murdered by Doug but we never see or hear from Claire again in the movie! did Doug murder her as well?
Like in the movie "The Wolfman" with Lon Chaney Jr we see Doug morph from a Dr.Jekyll to a Mr. Hyde-like character right before our eyes but unlike with Lon Chaney Jr's. Wolfman where it took pounds of makeup and reels of film to make it work for Thomas Griffith it only took his chillingly and effective acting to do the same thing.