Lynda Carter doesn’t seem to have any of her alter-ego’s powers to hand as
she does battle with psycho stalker ‘The Barber’ in this made for TV movie
that shares a striking number of similarities with ‘When a Stranger
Calls’.
Carter plays tough art student and part-time bar tender Brianne who gets
into a spot of bother one night with a drunken customer. She seems to
have succesfully difused the situation until he follows her home and
breaks in with the intentions of raping her.
Luckily a Psychiatrist named Justin, who had also been at the bar and had
seen the man following Brianne, turns up and saves the day. As payment
for saving her from the man, Brianne agrees to work for Justin at his
hotline crisis centre helping those in need of a sympathetic ear.
One night Brianne receives a call from ‘The Barber’ who asks her to stop
him by solving riddles. At first Brianne is reluctant, but she soon
becomes intrigued and so the game of cat and mouse begins as Brianne vows
to catch the killer before he strikes again, and in a living nightmare
where anyone could be the killer, Brianne may just have bitten off more
than she can chew.
This film is a strange one, not all that exciting but quite gripping as
you do want to know who ‘The Barber’ is, and whilst it is quite shocking,
you wonder why the person does what they do. Is it because they are just
psycho? Did I miss the point?
In the end there’s nothing new to be found here but it does have quite a
creepy atmosphere thanks to the location of Brianne’s house and the
lighting effects.
OVERALL SUMMARY
Not bad, you do root for Brianne because it’s Lynda Carter and she is
nice, but it wasn’t as unsettling as ‘When a Stranger Calls’.
