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Information
- Year
- 1981
- Runtime
- 95 min.
- Director
- Ed Bianchi
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, Horror
- Rating *
- 5.7
- Votes *
- 1,226
- Checks
- 194
- Favs
- 4
- Dislikes
- 4
- Favs/checks
- 2.1% (1:49)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
A lot of actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood seem fated to do a horror/thriller movie when they get older. For Lauren Bacall, it's The Fan, in which she plays an echo of herself (i.e. an aging movie actress) who discovers the nightmarish side of celebrity when an obsessive fan (Michael Biehn, always the man when you need an unhinged character) takes his stalking to the next level - the slasher level! He's good and Bacall is of course very good, and there are a lot of fun surprises in the cast even way down on the call sheet (Dana Delany! Dwight Shultz!), but The Fan is VERY PG for this type of film. Ed Bianchi has some nice directorial ideas - weird close-up photography, odd top shots - but very few of these have anything to do with body horror, so it almost feels like a TV movie (albeit one with material that would never have made it to television back then). What's more memorable to me is the musical Bacall's character is in - "Never Say Never" - and I can't decide if this thing would have been good or quite terrible. There's almost more tension in that question than there is in Biehn's wounding spree. 1 year 6 months ago