Gracie Winston, who suffers from a bad case of HPD (Histrionic Personality Disorder), is starting her life over after murdering her first husband Harvey. The distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Highland had diagnosed Gracie with a severe form of HPD, wherein she is "acting out" her delusions. For the doctor, the situation will only get more serious without therapy. "The Perfect Stalker" depicts just how bad it can get.
After arriving her new location, Gracie bumps into a man outside a grocery store and intentionally drops her shopping bag in order to meet him. He is Professor Robert Harris, who teaches pop culture at Horton College. Gracie is instantly besotted with Robert and proceeds to turn his life into a living hell in stalking him.
A weakness of the screenplay was in the absence of symptoms of Gracie's mood swings after she kills Harvey. For most of the film, her behavior was on a fairly normal curve, as she briefly held a responsible job and seemed uncharacteristically steady in her social manners. It was as if she had transformed into a different character with a far more serious pathology that the HPD.
While the performers all turned in solid work in their character interpretations, the film was extremely unpleasant due to the excessive violence. Gracie's first husband, Harvey Winston, is shocked when his wife flips the breaker on as he is changing a light fixture. He falls off a ladder to his death. Robert's caring fiancée Erin befriends Gracie when she moves into the neighborhood. For her kindness, Erin is murdered by Gracie with a tire iron. For the trifecta, Gracie rounds things off by killing the jovial security expert Wayne, Gracie's neighbor, who is pushed down a stairwell by Gracie, breaking his neck.
All of those deaths added up to a depressing and bleak scenario of heartbreak for Robert Harris, a decent man who wanted to lend a helping hand to his neighbor, and suffered the slings and arrows of a complete psychopath.
After arriving her new location, Gracie bumps into a man outside a grocery store and intentionally drops her shopping bag in order to meet him. He is Professor Robert Harris, who teaches pop culture at Horton College. Gracie is instantly besotted with Robert and proceeds to turn his life into a living hell in stalking him.
A weakness of the screenplay was in the absence of symptoms of Gracie's mood swings after she kills Harvey. For most of the film, her behavior was on a fairly normal curve, as she briefly held a responsible job and seemed uncharacteristically steady in her social manners. It was as if she had transformed into a different character with a far more serious pathology that the HPD.
While the performers all turned in solid work in their character interpretations, the film was extremely unpleasant due to the excessive violence. Gracie's first husband, Harvey Winston, is shocked when his wife flips the breaker on as he is changing a light fixture. He falls off a ladder to his death. Robert's caring fiancée Erin befriends Gracie when she moves into the neighborhood. For her kindness, Erin is murdered by Gracie with a tire iron. For the trifecta, Gracie rounds things off by killing the jovial security expert Wayne, Gracie's neighbor, who is pushed down a stairwell by Gracie, breaking his neck.
All of those deaths added up to a depressing and bleak scenario of heartbreak for Robert Harris, a decent man who wanted to lend a helping hand to his neighbor, and suffered the slings and arrows of a complete psychopath.