Stalker/obessive films I have watched

Over the last few weeks I have tried to watch some films to do with stalking and obsessive people to help with our film when we are editing.

First I watched "Obessed" With Beyonce Knowles and Idris Elba.

This was about a woman who got a tempory placement at a job. She ended up becoming obsessed with her boss at that placement and tried everything she could to stay at the job and got a permenant place there. She was convinced in her head that she had a relationship with this boss and always tried to be with him and would do anything for him. As the film goes on her obsession becomes worse and she becomes jealous of her boss's wife (Beyonce).
There are interesting camera shots in this film such as when the woman is watching the boss's house which we included into our filming when Sarah's dad was watching Charlotte leave her house. I thought it was quite a good film and think it has helped me to think of some ideas to put into our editing now.


The next film I watched was "The Watcher" with Keanu Reeves.

This film is about a serial killer who watches or stalks girls for weeks until he knows everything about their routine such as when they wake up when they leave the house when they eat when they sleep and most importantly when they are alone. Then he finds them and kills them by slitting their throat with a piano wire. He starts to play a game with a certain police officer by sending a photo of his next victim to him in the morning and says if the police officer does not find the victim by 9pm the same day, he will kill them.
I thought it was a really good film, even though it had quite a disapointing poor ending and think it will really help with our ideas.
There was a part in the film where you saw him developing photos of his victims in a dark room. In our film we are still not sure whether to put a red tint over our dark room scene or not. In The Watcher they have a red tint and I think it looks really effective so I will show my group and see if they agree.
Here is the trailer for The Watcher and you can see the effective dark room scenes in it breifly



Finally, the last film I watched on this subject was "Single White Female"

This film is about a woman, Ellie, who breaks up with her fiance and is so left to live alone. She puts an ad in the local newspaper asking for a female room mate. The woman, Headra, who she eventually chooses to move in with her starts to act strange around Ellie and becomes obsessed with her and her life. She wants Ellie for herself and does not want her to get back with her fiance or to ever leave her. She cuts and dyes her hair so it is identical to Ellies and starts wearing her clothes. She sleeps with her boyfriend and pretty much steals her identity. When Ellie finally realises that she needs to get away from Headra, she does not let her leave and tries to kill her.
I thought it was a really good film and would recommend it and I also think it had interesting camera angles when she was watching Ellie and when Ellie was trying to hide from her in their apartment which we could try and use in our film when we edit.