When Lauren Reynolds, a beautiful girl with a painful home life, breaks it off with her drug-addict ex, Matt, she is ready to give up on dating all together. Between raising her two younger brothers, working a meaningless nine-to-five with her best friend, and trying to talk sense into her physically abused mother, Lauren doesn't have much time or desire for a new man. Things change when Lauren meets a seemingly perfect match, Brandon Phillips. Lauren doesn't know that she is about to learn the hard way that Brandon's charm has a limit and that this new Loverboy has a much darker, sinister side...
Acting
Lead captures exhaustion of caretaking with terrifying authenticity.
Direction
Woman director flips male gaze into surveillance weapon.
Director
Erica Summers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 12 days on a $45,000 budget in suburban Florida using mostly local theater actors.
Part of a micro-wave of early-2010s female-directed stalker films (Hush, The Perfect Guy) reclaiming slasher POV from victim to predator.
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