Single White Female 2: The Psycho

2005 "A roommate with killer instincts."
4.1| 1h33m| R| en
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A warped woman takes deadly measures to help a new roommate get rid of her problems.

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Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Enchorde Recap: Two career-minded young and successful women, Holly and Jan, live together but compete for everything. The promotion at the job and even more importantly perhaps, boyfriends. No rules apply and Holly flees the apartment after Jan tricked her out of town during a important business meeting and then seduced Holly's new boyfriend. Holly moves in with Tess, a vulnerable young woman that soon take a liking to Holly. Too much perhaps, because soon Tess copies Holly clothes, hair color and starts appearing at her job. All the while Tess tries to force Holly to break with her former friend Tess seem more and more manipulative.Comments: A rather poor attempt to make a psychological thriller. Unfortunately it seems they forgot to bring the psychological element and seem content that the audience will keep watching just because all the leads are young and beautiful actresses. It doesn't work.To add a psychological level to any movie you need suspense to go with some really well written and developed characters. Relationships need to be given time to be established and to evolve slowly, to seem really plausible. This movie gives the opposite. There is no depth to the characters. Each and every one of the three leads are shallow, manipulative egoistic and it is hard to sympathize even with the heroine. Neither of them is very friendly, even to their good friends. Also the relationships develop without cause or explanation, it looks more like temporary alliances and feuds that start and end with a single word.The story is also predictable on a level that even the heroine should see what is happening. It annoys me that she suddenly trusts her new roommate (Tess), whom she has known all of a few days, more than old friends when Tess accuses them of having tried to take advantage of her. Why would she do that if she had any real connection with any other person? No, this movie doesn't work, at all. Sure, I can see that the women are beautiful, but that doesn't make a movie. And it is far too little when you try to build something deep and intriguing out of thin air.3/10
moviedude1 How does that line in "Henry VIII I Am" go? Oh, yeah: "Second verse...same as the first!" When the movie first started, I thought Burns' character was going to be the bad girl in here, as she's done before, but that she wasn't was the only mild surprise in this film. If you've seen the original with Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, you're not missing much by skipping this film. I noticed it was so bad, it was never even released theatrically in the US! The girls are all pretty, but the film is pretty predicable.Save yourself the trouble and rent the first one on DVD! Like I stated in the summary, 2 out of 10 stars is a gift to this film. I'm actually surprised that I couldn't wait for this movie to end so I could end up trashing it like I've done..and if you've ever read any of my other reviews, you'd see that it would take a lot for me to trash something like this. Unfortunately, I can't find one thing to save this movie.
dromasca TV director Keith Samples at his first long format film, directs a team of of unknown actors in this mediocre flick. The story is set in a PR firm in Manhattan, where female rivalry seems to be leading sooner or later not only to bad flat partnership, and boyfriends swapping, but soon to crime. The criminal element may however show up from the direction of the third female, the apparently innocent good girl, too innocent for the viewer not to suspect that she is going to draw aggressively the kitchen knife, sooner or later. I am hinting to the main problem of this film. Although the story is not that bad the lack of experience and inspiration of the director and actors lead to a much too predictable film, which is not much more that an opportunity to show some flesh and some blood, but is neither sexy enough or scary enough for the viewers to care.
deathcube-1 When I saw the original SWF, way back when, I was upset when it was over because I wanted more. This is it.Single White Female 2: The Psycho cleverly apply's new twists on an old formula. It strays just enough from the original to make itself its own, while borrowing the proper elements from the first film to remind you of the first film.I love these direct-to-DVD sequels, smaller budget, unknown actors and actresses, bottom line no ego. Everybody just trying to make the best flick they can.I also really liked Wild Things 2 and 3.And Ladies, These films are guilty pleasures made for men. It's like soft core with less core and more story. The sooner you understand that the sooner you can pass over them in the store, and stop whining about how misogynistic and degrading these films are. Or if your not a crazy SWF yourself you can pick it up at the video store and watch it with your man.Bottomline, if you like the first one, see this.