I'd just watched the spoof horror Grabbers, which has an excellent comic performance by a gorgeous actress named ... Ruth Bradley.
So I checked out her other stuff, found this, and the result was ... the polar opposite. Except this performance is excellent too. I wonder why she hasn't appeared in more movies.
Not as distressing a story as I expected, but there were powerful scenes. The father's panic attack feels real. And of course the murder scene is brutal, but rounded off with the touching sight of the lights going down on the dancer.
There are some weaknesses. I would have preferred if we got more of the killer's thoughts - although the disconnect in her character is clear from the performance, she clearly had the sensitivity to give some deeper reflections on death.
So I checked out her other stuff, found this, and the result was ... the polar opposite. Except this performance is excellent too. I wonder why she hasn't appeared in more movies.
Not as distressing a story as I expected, but there were powerful scenes. The father's panic attack feels real. And of course the murder scene is brutal, but rounded off with the touching sight of the lights going down on the dancer.
There are some weaknesses. I would have preferred if we got more of the killer's thoughts - although the disconnect in her character is clear from the performance, she clearly had the sensitivity to give some deeper reflections on death.