Acechada

Five minutes into "Stalked", a question popped up in my mind: who is this Jay Underwood and why have I never heard of him before? His performance here wouldn't be out of place in a major-studio film...the way he switches from "pleasant kind of guy" mode to "totally deranged psycho" mode, and vice versa, seems effortless. He single-handedly lifts this otherwise predictable thriller slightly above the norm. And his performance seems even better when you compare it to the uncharismatic one given by Maryam D'Abo, whose only career distinction up to now has been that she played the (arguably) least appealing Bond Girl of the entire Bond series. Oh, and another question: did they actually bother to get the rights to Bernard Herrmann's original "Psycho" score? (**)