I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

I actually saw this movie a couple years ago on cable late one night. I found this to actually be a somewhat suspenseful who-done-it mystery. Not a bad movie at all. Much better than the late night garbage cable channels usually play. A half way decent murder mystery. Just when you think you know who did it someonebody else pops up. A very decent low-budget movie.

Standard serial killer plot, and Shelley Hack gives her usual anemic performance, but if you like menacingly sexy bad guys, Arnold Vosloo is reason enough to rent this one. :) Plus, the plot does a decent job of keeping you wondering "Is he, or isn't he, the killer?"