The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games and gimmicks. Eventually he becomes involved in an escalating vendetta with a couple who make an unusual insurance claim.
Acting
Phil Collins commits to unhinged menace with unsettling dedication.
Direction
Stephan Elliott injects camp and cruelty into every frame.
Production
Sydney locations become a twisted playground of surveillance.

Director
Stephan Elliott
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Phil Collins took the role specifically to play against his wholesome pop star image.
This was Stephan Elliott's follow-up to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert — a dramatic pivot from drag queen road trip to psychological cruelty.