Never Talk to Strangers

1995

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

32
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 19% · 21 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 49% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 7928 7.9K

police telephone love police psychologist erotic thriller

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Plot summary

Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.

Director

Peter Hall Photo
Peter Hall

Top cast

Antonio Banderas Photo
Antonio Banderas as Tony Ramirez
Dennis Miller Photo
Dennis Miller as Cliff Raddison
John Bourgeois Photo
John Bourgeois as Cop
Martha Burns Photo
Martha Burns as Maura
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
701.02 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
TV-14
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 2
1.24 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
TV-14
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by John Chard 5 / 10

Erotic thriller dulls the senses... Brian De Palma

Erotic thriller dulls the senses... Brian De Palma has often come in for some flak over the years, his penchant for sticking tight to Alfred Hitchcock thriller formula has been the source of much consternation in certain quarters. Yet when you view something like Peter Hall's Never Talk to Strangers it rams home just how welcome it is to have Hitch like thrillers at least done well! Rebecca De Mornay is a troubled shrink who whilst dealing with the mind games of a serial killing loony (Harry Dean Stanton), meets sexually charged Latino guy (Antonio Banderas) and indulges in passions unbound. Then she starts to get very unwelcome presents in the post... The erotic thriller has been well trodden, and will continue to be so for sure, so it feels a little churlish to decry Hall's movie for coming off as a weak willed imitator of previous purveyors of the sub-genre, but this blend of Silence of the Lambs meets Sea of Love - cum - Dressed to Kill - cum Fatal Attraction etc etc just comes across as a cheat. And that's because it is! The makers know this and try to hide their ridiculous folly behind eroticism as the two lovely looking headlining stars get sweaty and wet, indulging in sexual play that's as powerful as the surroundings (Banderas lives in a loft apartment resplendent with metal cage and wrought iron doors). But, or should that be butt? The mystery element is weak, the suspense equally so, while the back story of De Mornay's father (a key character) is hopelessly under developed. Then there is H.D. Stanton, stealing every scene is he is in, quid pro quo indeed, yet he's hardly in the film, which ultimately proves to be a tragedy as the plot hurtles towards its implausible and risible revelations. Red herrings come and go as quickly as Becca and Tony's underwear (the continuity editor should have been sacked along with the writers because of one scene BTW), and even though Pino Donaggio scores the music with customary swirling qualities, this just comes off as a piggyback tactic... This is a poor thriller in spite of two very committed and visually attractive perfs from the leads - and of course Stanton's knowingly sleazy turn. Seek this out only if you think Body of Evidence is in the upper echelons of erotic thrillers. 5/10
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Reviewed by dhlk 6 / 10

Not that bad, surely

Yes, the plot devices were, at times, obvious. Yes, there were clear hints to the outcome in the early stages of the film. Yes, some of the acting wasn't great.

But, I didn't think it was that bad, and (forgive my ignorance in psychiatric matters if this is wrong) that implausible either.

I think, in acting terms, it was a general disappointment in the two main star actors who have done much better work than this. But don't be too harsh.

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