Ellen Carter's career is on the rocks. She hasn't written a worthy novel since her husband went missing and she was suspected by the police of murdering him. To top it all off, she has reason to believe that her new tenant Leslie Steckler is the serial killer responsible for a number of deaths in the region. But what she doesn't know is that, in the meantime, Steckler has discovered a little secret about her...
Acting
Peter Firth's unnervingly polite menace carries the whole thing.
Production
Gritty UK locations that feel authentically grim, not stylized.
Director
Chris Jones
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Firth was hot off 'Spooks' fame; this was a deliberate heel turn into villainy.
Part of a wave of post-'Fatal Attraction' UK thrillers obsessed with dangerous domestic spaces and female professional anxiety.
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