Critic Reviews
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Lael Loewenstein, Los Angeles Times
Alone With Her is a pretty engaging tale, and it's refreshing to see a well-acted, suspenseful drama made without a bloated budget or a lot of bloodletting.
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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Alone With Her plays like an extended voyeur video with nothing new to say about hidden cameras or stalkers or anything.
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Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Even a conventional, albeit cynical, ending can't ruin such effective mood-making.
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, New York Magazine
... this low-budget horror flick builds some claustrophobic tension out of modern anxieties, but it won't scare the bejesus out of you.
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Ronnie Scheib, Variety
Leadenly scripted and blandly overliteral and therefore never capitalizes on the provocativeness of its premise.
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Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Alone With Her has the kind of high ick factor that leaves you squirming -- not because Doug is so diabolical a creation, but because what he does to satisfy his pathology is so practical.
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Ryan Stewart, Cinematical
What sets the film a notch above standard genre fare is its ability to ask bigger questions about a stalker like Doug.
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Matt Glasby, Film4
A neatly insinuating idea, flawlessly executed, Alone With Her marks out its stars and director as ones to watch.
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Felix Vasquez Jr., Film Threat
An utterly morbid display of stalking on a completely different level...
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M. Faust, ArtVoice
A smart, unsettling drama that finds new uses for tatics devised by movies like The Stepfather and The Blair Witch Project.
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Scott Weinberg, DVD Clinic
A novel spin on an oft-told tale, Alone with Her is a fine little indie indeed. What could have been just another gimmick flick turns out to be a pretty intense ride.
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Marc Mohan, Oregonian
The moral of the story: If you meet someone whose tastes mirror your own to a scary degree, then by all means, be scared.
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Andy Klein, Los Angeles CityBeat
Despite its cleverness, however, nearly everything is predictable; in a sense, this is a higher-tech version of The Collector, and it doesn't really take us anywhere we haven't been many times before.
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Frank Lovece, Film Journal International
This isn't a psychological horror film so much as a slice-of-life twentysomething tale, in which one party happens to be quietly very not-normal.
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Jovanka Vuckovic, Rue Morgue Magazine
An unsettling tale of modern espionage horror.
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Rory L. Aronsky, Film Threat
Alone with Her has a dog and a rampant sense of dread, the kind you don't recover from for at least a few days. I'm on the first day.
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Chris Barsanti, Filmcritic.com
exudes the overall uncomfortable air of watching a depraved home movie
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Gary Goldstein, Reel.com
Alone With Her is a tense, well-shot little thriller in the vein of 'fatal attraction' youth flicks like Fear, The Crush, and Swimfan.
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Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide
Through Hanks' and Talancon's subtle, naturalistic performance [writer-director Eric Nicholas] cultivates a human dimension often missing from thrillers.
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Featured Audience Ratings
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<i>"Anytime. Anywhere. He's watching."</i>
In Los Angeles, the psychopath Doug stalks the sexy Latin woman Amy is a park and follows her.
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<i>"Anytime. Anywhere. He's watching."</i>
In Los Angeles, the psychopath Doug stalks the sexy Latin woman Amy is a park and follows her.
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Shot entirely using body cams and spy cams, the movie attempts to explore the horror of the increase in stalking due to the advances in and availability of technology. The movie begins with a stalker, played by Colin Hanks, filming women at the beach and at the park, obviously searching for a victim. He chooses a girl, played by Ana Claudia Talancón, and begins following her, planting cameras in her apartment and slowly inserting himself into her life, using the knowledge he gained from the cameras to find common ground. I could see what the writer/director was trying to accomplish, but it was not entertaining enough to hold my interest without taking breaks. The acting was mostly convincing, although there were some spells of poor acting. The ending seemed very film-school and amateur.
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Stalker thriller where we are shoved right into the stalker's perspective. Shot entirely through secret cameras this is similar to other "real" films such as Blair Witch and Cloverfield. Hanks does well in the lead, but is also too recognisable to have the desired… More
Stalker thriller where we are shoved right into the stalker's perspective. Shot entirely through secret cameras this is similar to other "real" films such as Blair Witch and Cloverfield. Hanks does well in the lead, but is also too recognisable to have the desired affect. He's pleasant, creepy and sympathetic. Many of his plans work surprisingly well, which sometimes destroys the illusion. Though Amy is supposedly a naive and vulnerable soul, so it does make sense most of the time. The film checks all the boxes for any thriller and the only real difference is how it's filmed. Well made and engrossing for it's 78 minutes.
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Creepy little movie that will make you think twice about that nice guy you just met at the coffee shop. Especially if he seems a little "off". Doug (Colin Hanks) secretly installs cameras all over the house so he can watch Amy (Ana Claudia Talancon) as she goes about her day… More
Creepy little movie that will make you think twice about that nice guy you just met at the coffee shop. Especially if he seems a little "off". Doug (Colin Hanks) secretly installs cameras all over the house so he can watch Amy (Ana Claudia Talancon) as she goes about her day (and night). I thought the exclusive use of surveillance cameras brilliant as it added to the sleaze quotient. Not a lot of surprises as one can easily guess what's coming, but still well enough done that it manages to keep the tension level high throughout. May cause single women living alone to rethink their living arrangements. Watch the alternate ending (in the extras) so you can sleep easier.
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Rote voyeur thriller rarely feels like more than an exercise.
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Awesome filming concept, but I felt that the movie was lacking.
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Intriguing but over the top little independent flick.I was stunned with the sole candid camera preference of showing the events but afterward it's tiring and..suddenly..where you expect the utter climax,it's just monotonous in the set-up of things.Remarkable acting by… More
Intriguing but over the top little independent flick.I was stunned with the sole candid camera preference of showing the events but afterward it's tiring and..suddenly..where you expect the utter climax,it's just monotonous in the set-up of things.Remarkable acting by Talancon and some great ideas though in this chilling (thanks to the obsessive psycho) tale of physical/mental abuse.
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Decent, slow burn, creepy stalker flick. Probably scarier for females than males, the way it tells the story through hidden cameras (planted by the stalker) is reminiscent of My Little Eye. Plus, there's a couple shots where Colin Hanks looks the spittin' image of his… More
Decent, slow burn, creepy stalker flick. Probably scarier for females than males, the way it tells the story through hidden cameras (planted by the stalker) is reminiscent of My Little Eye. Plus, there's a couple shots where Colin Hanks looks the spittin' image of his daddy.
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