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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Day 17: A Demon In My View


   Anthony Perkins once again plays a serial murderer tortured by his childhood memories. This time it was his abusive aunt that fueled his urge to strangle women. He lives on the top floor of an apartment building. A young man with the same last name and first initial is involved in an affair with a married woman. When he moves into the same apartment building, even transpire that may spell death for one of them.

     Perkins once again delivers in his type casted Psycho role. The man could snooze his way through this and it would still be executed to perfection. The issue here isn’t with Perkins. It’s with the content of the script. Which is practically nothing. He stares out windows, acts like an asshole, tampers with peoples mail, plays with mannequins, and occasionally strangles women. This is all fine and good but that’s basically all that happens in the film, heavy emphasis on the staring out windows part.

     The other lead actor is a complete joke. His German accent and total ineptitude makes his delivery laughable at time. He spends most of his time on the phone with his forbidden lover. The entire story of a murdering psychopath is pretty much pointless. Perkins is never discovered by the police, he’s never discovered by the new tenant, his girlfriend, or even her husband. He does after the husband mistakenly assumes he’s the one romancing his wife and then kills him. That’s it! He just so happens to be a strangler. That’s it. It takes an hour and 40 minutes for this to happen. Even if you’re an Anthony Perkins fan like myself I’m gonna have to suggest you skip this one.
Body Count:4

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