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"FATAL ATTRACTION" (1987) (Michael Douglas, Glenn Close) (R) Alcohol/ Drugs Blood/Gore Disrespectful/ Bad Attitude Frightening/ Tense Scenes Guns/ Weapons Extreme Heavy Extreme Heavy Heavy Imitative Behavior Jump Scenes Music (Scary/Tense) Music (Inappropriate) Profanity Heavy Mild Extreme None Extreme Sex/ Nudity Smoking Tense Family Scenes Topics To Talk About Violence Extreme Heavy Heavy Moderate Heavy QUICK TAKE: Dramatic Thriller: A successful married New York lawyer has a weekend fling with a book editor while his wife is away, and when he decides it's time to end it, the woman does not take it well at all. PLOT: New York, New York is a wonderful town for Dan Gallagher (MICHAEL DOUGLAS), a lawyer, a husband, a father, with a nice, spacious apartment to boot, and of course, a dog. He's respected at his law firm, helps out a publishing company when needed, and there's a chance for a promotion, perhaps with his last name added to the law firm's letterhead. However, at a book release party, he meets Alex Forrest (GLENN CLOSE), an associate book editor for the company throwing the party, and there is an attraction that grows even stronger when Dan is caught in the rain without a workable umbrella and decides that he and Alex should have a drink. They get to know each other, and they like each other enough to have a weekend fling while Dan's wife (ANNE ARCHER) and daughter (ELLEN HAMILTON LATZEN) are in the country, looking over a potential new house. At the end of the weekend, Dan wants to end the affair and get back to his normal life, his normal routine, and his normal money. But Alex believes that something is still there and refuses to let go, even to the extent of visiting him at his office, calling on the phone, and making Dan's life a hell that he never imagined possible by just one tryst. And even then, she hasn't yet gone nuclear. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Older teens may want to, if they haven't tired yet of psychos in the movies, and fans of Michael Douglas and Glenn Close will definitely want to. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R No official reason is available, but we'd guess it's for language, sexually related material, nudity and violence. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: MICHAEL DOUGLAS plays Dan Gallagher, a New York City lawyer living a New York City life with his wife, daughter, dog, and friends, and with the chance of moving up the law firm ladder. That is, if not for Alex Forrest, whom he meets at a book release party and then at a restaurant, and decides that a weekend tryst would be a nice way to pass the time while his wife and daughter are away. He ends the affair, after some trouble beforehand, but doesn't realize the extent of the damage that'll be done to his life when Alex won't let go. He uses strong profanity. GLENN CLOSE plays Alex Forrest, an associate editor for a publishing company, who meets Dan at a book release party and then spends some time with him out of the rain at a restaurant, which leads to a sexual tryst with him over a weekend. When Dan decides to break it off, something snaps and she goes after him for trying to leave, even resorting to slashing her wrists to prevent him from leaving. After he takes care of her and finally leaves, she tries to get to him, by visiting his office, by calling him, and then other great, dangerous lengths, believing that he belongs to her and not his wife. She smokes and uses strong profanity. ANNE ARCHER plays Beth Gallagher, oblivious to her husband's affair, since she's out in the country with their daughter looking at what could be a new home for all of them, only finding out when the situation becomes worse for Dan. ELLEN HAMILTON LATZEN plays Ellen Gallagher, the couple's young daughter, who becomes a victim of Alex's crazed attempts to get Dan for herself. STUART PANKIN plays Jimmy, Dan's friend and fellow lawyer, who cheers Dan's possible promotion in the law firm, and spends time, along with his wife, with Dan and his wife at a book release party and a bowling alley. He uses strong language, uttered only when champagne is spilled on him. ELLEN FOLEY plays Hildy, Jimmy's wife, who seems as close to Jimmy as Beth is to Dan. MIKE NUSSBAUM plays Bob Drimmer, who consults Dan on a matter of political portrayal in a novel his company intends to publish. He wears a neck brace which becomes a source of humor, when it's wondered if Bob got the neck brace because of sex with his wife. FRED GWYNNE plays Arthur, Dan's boss, who's impressed by his work and wants to meet with him further. He smokes a pipe a few times. MEG MUNDY plays Joan Rogerson, Beth's mother. TOM BRENNAN plays Howard Rogerson, Beth's father, who's at Beth's hospital bedside when Dan arrives to see her and knows the whole story. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Then read OUR TAKE of this film. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). OUR WORD TO PARENTS: The following is a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated drama. Profanity consists of at least 10 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are also uttered. Sexually related dialogue is present, as are several sexual encounters (with movement, nudity and sounds). Violence consists of two major sequences of conflict, both involving knives and lots of shoving and choking, while a person is shot and killed. Much of that has varying degrees of bloody results, while other less severe violence is also present. That and various moments of potential peril may be unsettling and/or suspenseful to viewers. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes (affairs, stalking, etc.), and some of the behavior may be enticing for kids to imitate. Additionally, various characters smoke and/or drink, while tense family material is also present. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. For those prone to visually induced motion sickness, there's some shaky camera movement in the film. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE At a business function, various people hold flutes of champagne. Dan asks his group, made up of his wife, Jimmy and Jimmy's wife, "Who wants champagne. Champagne? Let's go." Jimmy jokingly points at his wife and says, "Hemlock, with a twist." Dan calls to someone offscreen, "Four champagnes over here." Dan and Jimmy take glasses of champagne from a waitress, and a guy bumps into Jimmy, causing the champagne to spill on him. Dan and Jimmy drink from their glasses. The author of "Samurai Self-Help" drinks from his glass of champagne. The bartender at the gathering brings a drink over to a woman at the counter. Dan asks the bartender for champagne, and after it's brought over, drinks some while standing next to Alex. Dan drinks again from his champagne glass after he tells Alex that he has to leave. Dan asks Alex if she wants to "go get a drink" until the rain stops. Dan drinks three times from his glass of red wine in the restaurant. Alex grabs a bottle of wine from her kitchen counter and takes it over to Dan, who puts the corkscrew in and removes the cork. He then pours wine into a glass. Alex sips red wine twice at the table. Two glasses of wine and a bottle of wine sit on a small table between Dan and Alex. Dan sips some red wine after Alex asks him what he's doing there with her. Alex drinks some wine after Dan decides he can't see her again. Dan drinks some wine after that. A quarter of a glass of wine is seen as Ellen attempts to shuffle cards. Ellen tells Dan to pick a card, and a half-filled glass of red wine is seen. Dan picks up the quarter-filled glass of wine, there's a cut to Beth, and then back to Dan, who is seen lowering the glass. At a bowling alley where Dan, Jimmy and their wives are playing, there are two beer bottles on the scoring table at their lane, and Beth and Hildy both hold beers. After Dan's victorious strike, we see three beer bottles sitting on the scoring table, and Hildy is still holding hers. Jimmy holds a bottle of champagne and the cork and jokingly points it at Beth. Jimmy pops the cork and the champagne overflows, and Jimmy comments, "Oh, it's excited." He puts his mouth over the top of the bottle to prevent more from coming out. Jimmy pours some champagne for Beth, then Hildy, then Dan. Beth drinks a bit of champagne. Dan drinks some champagne. Jimmy drinks some champagne. Jimmy pours more champagne for Hildy and says, "Here, you drink. I want you with a lampshade on your head by 10 o'clock." Hildy replies good-naturedly, "Why should today be different from any other?" As Alex dials a number on her phone, a glass of white wine is seen on her bed. Alex asks Dan what he wants and offers Scotch, Vodka, and Chablis. Beth tells Dan that she'll gives him "brandy, a back rub. You won't know what hit you." Dan asks Beth how her arm feels and she says it hurts. He then tells her that he'll get her "some more painkillers." BLOOD/GORE As Alex's hands slide down Dan's face, he realizes they're wet and red streaks are seen on the right side of his face. Dan looks down and finds that she has slit her wrists. Dan puts Alex's hands under the faucet head, the blood still very much visible, turns on the water, and Alex yells out a bit. As Dan holds Alex close to him, leading her away from the sink, a handprint of blood can be seen on his face. Dan runs, his hand landing on a pillar in the apartment as he rounds a corner, and he leaves some blood behind. After seeing Dan through the window with his family in his home in the country, Alex covers her mouth and runs to the bushes, coughing into them, but no vomiting is heard or seen. Beth finds a bunny boiling in a pot on the stove, and screams. The bunny is seen for a second and its red guts can be seen protruding from its body. A person slices a knife against their clothed leg, drawing blood. They keep doing it, and the blood keeps coming. Blood drips onto the person's bare foot, and mixes into the pooling water, turning it red. The person slashes at Dan's shirt with the knife, and wounds his chest. They do it a second time and as he falls into an overfilled bathtub, a pool of blood can be seen on his shirt. As a character struggles in the bathtub, a blood wound is seen on the left leg. Underwater, blood rises from a character's mouth. After a gun is fired at a character, blood splatters on the wall behind, and it drips from a chest wound. As the character slides down the wall and back into the tub, the blood splatter from behind is seen more prominently and streaks across the wall as the character slides into the tub. The face sinks into the bloody water and stops at the eyes. DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE Dan Gallagher, a lawyer at a law firm that has a New York City publishing company as a client, is successful at his job, knows the laws exactly, and lives a good life with his wife Beth, his daughter Ellen, and in an apartment that may be cramped to them now and may be the reason for a pending move into the country, but looks wide to us. When Beth and Ellen leave for the weekend to look at that potential house in the country, he meets Alex Forrest for a second time, after first talking at a book release party. Sitting in a well-furnished restaurant, talking about their lives, he becomes attracted to her and she to him, and they spent a sex-filled, passionate weekend together, with Dan giving no thought to Beth or Ellen or the consequences that may come from this affair. And they do, mostly with Alex not willing to let him go after he decides to end it. Later, when Alex tells Dan that she's pregnant and the child is his, he right away offers to pay for an abortion, and she asks him what makes him think she wants an abortion. Dan doesn't mind spending that time with Alex, having all that fun, but when certain aspects of it start to affect him, he wants to make it all disappear so his life isn't damaged by his reckless act. Alex Forrest is an associate book editor at a publishing company holding a release party for a book called "Samurai Self-Help." She meets Dan there and there is a spark, which becomes bigger when they meet again after Dan is called in to figure out if a book can be published with no problem, even though its author has apparently based one of the characters on an Ohio senator she had an affair with. Dan and Alex spend time together in a restaurant, learning about each other, and decide to make a weekend out of being with each other in every way possible. However, when Dan decides that it's time to end it because he's married and has a kid, she doesn't like that at all. She slits her wrists to prevent him from leaving, and then gradually stalks him, first meeting him at his office and then calling him constantly. She's attached to him and doesn't want anyone else to have him, and she becomes more psychotic as the film wears on, though it's left to viewers to figure out what makes her the way she is. After getting back to their table at the restaurant, Alex tells Dan that she stood up her Saturday night date with a phone call. After dressing for work, Dan pulls back the quilt of his and his wife's bed, then the sheet, gets in, and rolls from side to side for a second so his wife thinks he slept in it while she was away. Dan exclaims angrily to Alex, "You need a shrink!" Dan goes into Alex's apartment while she's out, looking for something. A person uses the phrase "You flaming, f*cking faggot." FRIGHTENING SCENES Scenes listed under "Violence," "Blood/Gore" and "Jump Scenes" may be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to younger viewers and/or those with low tolerance levels for such material. As Alex's hands slide down Dan's face, he realizes they're wet and red streaks are seen on the right side of his face. Dan looks down and finds that she has slit her wrists, and the music punctuates this. Beth accidentally plows into a station wagon in front of her in a frantic search for Ellen, and the collision is a jumble of images. Beth wipes steam condensation from the bathroom mirror and a person appears in it. Beth screams after discovering them, drops a glass and it shatters. A character brandishes a bloody knife against Beth, who screams. The person stabs at Beth, but it's not certain if she's actually been stabbed, and the music contributes to the frightening nature of the scene as well. GUNS/WEAPONS A knife is used in a threatening manner and to wound, and a gun is used for self-defense. See "Violence" for more details. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR Phrases: "If you told me to f*ck off, I'd have more respect for you," "Well f*ck you!" "Jesus f*cking Christ," "F*cking bitch," "You flaming, f*cking faggot," "You gutless, heartless, spineless f*cking son of a bitch," "Oh, sh*t," "Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t," "That was a sh*tty thing to do," "Sh*t," "Cut the sh*t, will you?" "You're a c*ck-sucking son of a bitch," "Son of a bitch!" "Damn," "Silly girl," "Jesus, if looks could kill...," "She was undressing me with her eyes," "Oh, thank God," "You bastard," "Phooey," "Oh mama, oh mama," "You need a shrink!" "This is crazy," "This is totally insane," "Don't you ever pity me, you smug bastard," "You haven't got the balls" and "You're a stupid, selfish bitch." Ellen is seen wearing her mother's lipstick on her face. After hearing her mother say, "Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t," Ellen imitates her more times than that while walking to the door to greet the babysitter. Jimmy asks if the Samurai author's bowing to the guests is part of the ritual, and imitates it. Dan playfully collapses in the park, not responding when Alex calls to him, and she runs over in a panic, and then Dan gets up, grinning. As Alex's hands slide down Dan's face, he realizes they're wet and red streaks are seen on the right side of his face. Dan looks down and finds that she has slit her wrists. After dressing for work, Dan pulls back the quilt of his and his wife's bed, then the sheet, gets in, and rolls from side to side for a second so his wife thinks he slept there while she was away. Dan feeds spaghetti and meat sauce to the family dog Quincy in a rush to get to work. Ellen flicks the back of her hand at Dan, as she's certain of which row she picked in the card trick they're doing, and he thinks she isn't. Dan adopts a squeaky voice when expressing mock dismay that Ellen mentioned rabbits again. Beth punches Dan in the chest playfully after he seems less than enthusiastic about the house, and he makes a mock sound of pain. Alex sits on the floor of her apartment in a daze, continually turning a lamp on and off. At a bowling alley, Jimmy pumps his arms, flaps them once, and then jumps up, energized, and claps. Jimmy pumps his arms in the air and then his fists near his midsection at Dan after knocking down seven pins. Dan jumps up on Jimmy in victory after bowling a strike and Jimmy spins around with him. As some wine pours out of a bottle after being opened, Jimmy puts his mouth over the top to prevent more from spilling out. Dan and Jimmy rise from the table and imitate samurais, head-bowing to each other. Jimmy fake-cries after Dan jokingly bids him and Hildy goodbye. Beth makes various sounds while reading a story to Ellen. After a phone operator won't give Dan's new phone number to Alex, she curses at him, slams the phone down and throws it across the room. Dan discovers acid eating through the hood of his car, courtesy of Alex. Beth finds a bunny boiling in a pot on the stove, and screams. The bunny is seen for a second and its red guts can be seen protruding from its body. JUMP SCENES Dan screams out of fright when Beth comes up to him from behind and puts her hands on his shoulders while he's listening to Alex's tape. Beth wipes steam condensation from the bathroom mirror and a person appears in it. Beth screams after discovering them, drops a glass and it shatters. As the camera sits at the overfilled tub, now also filled with blood, the person presumably dead in it, rises out of it quickly, screaming. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) An extreme amount of scary and tense music occurs in the film. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) None. PROFANITY At least 10 "f" words, 16 "s" words, 1 ass (used with "hole"), 1 slang term for sex ("screwing"), 3 S.O.B.s, 2 damns, 1 hell, 3 uses of "Jesus Christ," 2 uses each of "G-damn," "Jesus" and "Thank God," and 1 use each of "God forbid." "Oh Christ," "Oh Jesus," and "Oh Lord." SEX/NUDITY Beth looks over some slips and bras hanging on a line in the bathroom. The bottom half of Dan crosses the camera with only underwear on. Beth wears a t-shirt that stops at her midriff. Beth's white panties are seen as she bends over to spit in the sink after brushing her teeth. Beth meets Bob Drimmer, who has a brace around his neck and asks Dan what happened. Dan replies, "He was screwing his wife." When Beth asks if he's serious, Dan asks Jimmy, "Am I serious?" and Jimmy responds, "Oh, absolutely. You should see his wife. They had to take her out on a stretcher." This is a running joke through the first 20 minutes of the film. Commenting on Alex's icy look toward him, Jimmy tells Dan, "She was undressing me with her eyes. She had trouble with the buttons." As Beth ascends some stairs, her black dress shows some cleavage. As Beth walks into the apartment, she has one arm of her coat off and shows some cleavage. Beth sits in a chair to take off her shoes, still wearing her black dress, and showing cleavage. Dan unbuttons part of his shirt as he walks into the bedroom, but is disappointed to see Ellen in bed with Beth. While waiting for Alex to arrive to start the meeting on the legality of a book to be published, Dan says, "Well, since we got a little time, maybe you can tell us exactly what happened to your neck, Bob." Bob responds, "That's cute. Very cute." The stenographer looks up at Bob and then back down, though it's uncertain whether or not she looks uncomfortable. Dan begins the meeting with, "Ok, here's the story. You want to publish a novel in which one of the characters is a senator from New Jersey who's fooling around." He wants to know if the author had an affair with "Mr. Ohio," the actual senator who is presumably the basis for the character, and Alex replies, "Yeah, she did. But she also had a lot of affairs with other politicians." Alex asks Dan if he's discreet, referring to sex, and Dan says, "Yes I'm discreet." Dan tells Alex that he doesn't think having dinner with anyone is a crime, after she refers to herself as a "strange girl" and him as a "naughty boy" for being with her when his wife is out of town. Alex responds, "Not yet." Dan asks if it will be a crime and Alex asks, "I don't know, what do you think?" Dan says, "Well, I definitely think it's gonna be up to you." Alex replies, "Can't say yet. I haven't made up my mind." Alex points out the obvious things: They were attracted to each other at the party and Dan's alone for the night. "We're two adults," Alex says. Dan quietly replies, "Let's get the check." In a shaky-camera style, Dan and Alex kiss passionately while Alex removes her panties and Dan pulls down his pants and takes down his underwear. Penetration is sensed when Alex gasps in pleasure and then chuckles. Dan kisses her neck and they go back to kissing. We see movement and the two moan, at which time Alex turns the sink on behind her, wets her hand, and brings it to Dan's face as they kiss. She takes more water and puts it on her bare breast, which Dan kisses. Alex puts more water over Dan's mouth and they kiss again. They move away from the sink, as Dan carries Alex while trying to duck-walk with his pants and underwear around his ankles. He shakes the fashion off one foot and nearly runs to the bed, landing on top of Alex, whose bare legs are also seen. We hear moaning sounds as the camera pans across the stove to a bubbling percolator. In the next shot, Dan is kissing Alex's neck after they've finished what looks like another round, as it's dark outside. They catch their breath and Alex says, "Oh, that was great." Dan replies, "Oh, thank God. Thank God." Alex asks Dan if he's feeling energetic, and Dan asks Alex what she has in mind, most likely thinking there'll be more sex. At a dance club, a woman's bare leg in a green dress gyrates wildly. Cleavage is seen in a green dress. After Dan and Alex get into her apartment building's cargo elevator, Alex asks Dan, "Have you ever done it in an elevator?" After Dan responds, "Not recently," she says, "I'll bet you haven't," and goes right for him. As the elevator goes up, so do they, as they kiss and go from side to side in the elevator. Dan takes off her dress and kisses her bare breast. Alex stops the elevator and performs oral sex on him (not seen), and he groans, but gets quiet as footsteps pass by. As Dan and Alex arrive at Alex's apartment, and before she reaches up for the key, Alex shows some cleavage. Dan takes a shower and part of his bare behind is seen briefly. As Dan waits on the phone to speak to Beth, part of his blue button down shirt is left open, showing his chest. The camera pans from the wall, down to Alex and Dan in bed together, him bare-chested and her with the sheet barely covering her breasts, which are unseen. Dan gets out of bed, showing more of his clothesless figure, including his bare behind. The curve of Alex's right breast can be seen after Dan says that he has to go home. One of Alex's breasts can be seen as she tells Dan that he's not going to leave at that moment. After Alex falls back onto the bed from clawing at Dan's shirt, her left breast is seen. Dan's shirt is open after this, showing his bare chest and one of his nipples. Both of Alex's breasts can be seen after Dan asks, "What's the problem?" Both of Alex's breasts are seen in full view for about five seconds before Dan sits down on the bed, and then 31 seconds afterward, after which time she's suddenly covered up. Alex's bare leg is seen briefly when she kicks Dan from the bed. As Alex sits on the edge of the bathtub, her shirt is above her legs. Beth rubs lotion on her hands, and through the mirror, her bra is seen as well as some cleavage. She rubs the lotion across her chest, on her shoulders, and down one arm, and then up and down her neck. All the while, her bra is present as well as a bra strap. Dan kisses Beth on the back of her neck. Beth moves Dan's hands over her legs and in between, parting them slightly. After Jimmy pops open a bottle of champagne, some of it spills out and Jimmy says, "Oh, it's excited." Beth sleeps without upper clothing, with a sheet covering those parts, and so does Dan. Alex walks around her apartment in a slip, showing some cleavage, and a nipple is seen through the slip. When Dan asks Alex how she knows that the kid she's carrying is his, she replies, "Because I don't sleep around." After a phone operator refuses to give Dan's new unlisted phone number to Alex, she screams, "Well, f*ck you!" to which the operator replies, "My place or yours?" As Alex spins around in the stairwell, trying to block Dan from leaving, her bare legs are seen. On an audiotape to Dan, Alex tells him, "I feel you. I taste you. Think you. I touch you." SMOKING Alex smokes three times, and Arthur, Dan's boss, smokes a pipe 10 times, while Dan is seen with a cigar, and Alex taps cigarette ash into an ashtray. TENSE FAMILY SCENES After Dan tells Beth of his affair with Alex, he tries to grab her as she runs and Beth screams that she wants him out of the house, and hits him and shakes him. Ellen witnesses this scene, and they stop when they see her crying. As Dan enters Beth's hospital room, her father sits at her bedside and is not pleased to see him, having learned about the affair. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT What a marriage entails. Why men stray from a marriage and engage in affairs. How a family is affected by an affair, children especially. Stalking and obsession. Why director Adrian Lyne and screenwriter James Dearden don't provide a straight answer as to why Dan had the affair. Glenn Close's disturbing and complex performance, and other skilled performances in her career. VIOLENCE In bed, Alex reaches up to Dan's shirt and begins to tear at it maliciously. She hits his sides and then falls back onto the bed. After Dan tells Alex to "f*ck off," in response to something she said before, Alex screams and kicks him hard from the bed. As Alex's hands slide down Dan's face, he realizes they're wet and red streaks are seen on the right side of his face. Dan looks down and finds that she has slit her wrists. Beth punches Dan in the chest playfully after he expresses less enthusiasm than she expected about the new house, and he makes a mock sound of pain. Dan raises his voice at Alex and then pushes her off of him. Dan grabs Alex and slams her to the wall after she threatens to tell his wife, and says to her, "If you tell my wife, I'll kill you." After Alex can't work up the nerve to tell Dan's wife over the phone about the affair, she slams the phone down and throws it across the room. Dan discovers acid eating through the hood of his car, courtesy of Alex. Beth finds a bunny boiling in a pot on the stove, and screams. The bunny is seen for a second and its red guts can be seen protruding from its body. Beth accidentally plows into a station wagon in front of her in a frantic search for Ellen, and the collision is a jumble of images. Dan shoves open the door to Alex's apartment and it opens slightly, revealing Alex there. He shoves it harder and it opens fully, knocking Alex to the floor. He grabs her and she tries to crawl away, then gets free and starts running, knocking a lamp and a bicycle to the floor. Dan jumps over both and chases her to another room where she slams the door on his arm and with that arm, he grabs her by the hair and pushes her face against the opaque glass. She pushes his arm away with a free hand and he barges in. He shoves her to the floor and begins to choke her. She spits at him and then kicks him. He grunts and nearly falls into the bathtub, but regains his balance. She gets up and runs, then falls; gets up again, and runs and he tries to catch her, but he runs into window glass, which breaks, and she trips again, barely in front of the glass. She crawls up a step, kicks him, he cries out in pain, and then she crawls to the kitchen. He grabs her, slams her against the edge of a counter and then to the kitchen floor, choking her. She coughs, while he has a violent look on his face and doesn't let go. His look disappears and he lets go. He leans against the stove, trying to recover, and she uses the edge of the sink to get up. She coughs into the sink and turns on the water, then takes a kitchen knife, screams, and runs at him with it. He grabs her by the wrist, pushes her back, takes the knife from her, and she falls to the floor again. He then places the kitchen knife on the counter. A character keeps pulling the tip of the knife away from their dress as they talks, ripping the dress. They then slices the knife against her clothed leg, drawing much blood. The character brandishes the bloody knife against Beth, who screams. They stab at Beth, though it's not certain if she hits anything, though we do hear it hit something. Beth punches the person in the face and they fall to the floor and the knife spins away from their grasp. The person lunges at Beth and grabs her leg, and Beth tries to kick the person away while shouting for Dan. The person relinquishes their grip and grabs at the knife. The person grabs Beth's leg again and tries to stab it, but only stabs the tile floor. Dan shouts and runs into the bathroom at the person and slams them against the mirror, which shatters. The person slashes Dan's shirt, and wounds his chest. The person slashes again and as Dan falls into an overfilled bathtub, a pool of blood can be seen on his shirt. Dan pulls the shower curtain in front of him and the person slashes at it unsuccessfully. Dan kicks the shower curtain and the person is sent reeling to the door, landing on it, and knocking down many pictures next to them. Dan runs at the person, ducks the knife, spins them around, puts one arm around their neck, and as the person stabs the bloody knife into the air, he plunges the person facedown into the tub. The person kicks wildly, trying to get up, but Dan pushes the person back in. The person comes back up, clearly choking from the ordeal, and their eyes are rolled up in their head. The person rises from the tub, screaming, holding the knife towards Dan and then a gun fires, hitting the person in the chest. Blood splatters behind the person on the wall and it drips from a chest wound. As they slide down the wall, back into the tub, the blood spatter behind them is seen more prominently as well as streaks across the wall. The face sinks into the bloody water and stops at their eyes. Reviewed off DVD / Posted April 29, 2008