Stalker Movies

INNOCENT THING – Joon-ki was once a former rugby athlete and is currently a popular Physical Education teacher at an all-girls’ high school. His pregnant wife Seo-Yeon is due to give birth to their first child imminently. Although he’s used to playful advances from pubescent students, things take a dangerous turn when Young-eun falls hard for her teacher and daringly confesses her feelings for him. Amid growing rumors, he is soon consumed with guilt and attempts to end the relationship. However Young-eun’s pure crush slowly turns to obsession. She starts to regard everyone related with Joon-ki as obstacles and the farther he keeps her away, the bolder her obsession and madness grows. A high school student develops a crush on her gym teacher. Former physical athlete and father-to-be Joon-Ki works as a PE teacher at an all-girls high school, where many of the students find him to be an attractive man. Young-Eun is a particular outgoing and brash young girl whom is very straight forward and is creative in finding ways to interact with Joon-Ki, whom is the center of her crush. During one fateful rainy day, Joon-Ki is alone in the classroom with Young-Eun and things go too far. Joon-Ki tries very heard to correct the errors of his ways and wants to put it behind him, but the smitten Young-Eun’s obsession with him seems to know no limit. And soon Joon-Ki finds himself with a shattered marriage.

L’ASSASSINO E ANCORA TRA NOI – A couple drives to a secluded lovers’ lane on the outskirts of Florence to have sex and is gunned down by a gloved prowler, who uses a knife and a tree branch to sexually mutilate the body of the female victim. The double homicide is the latest in a series of them, the work of a serial killer dubbed “II Mostro” who Christiana Marelli, a Criminology student, is researching for her thesis, to the dismay of her professor, the local police and her doctor boyfriend, Alex. As Christiana investigates II Mostro, she begins receiving strange telephone calls and finds herself being shadowed by a stalker, who at one point attempts to break into her apartment whiles she is home alone. A bartender who had offered to meet with Christiana to provide to provide her with information is later found hanged and Christiana begins to suspect that her boyfriend is II Mostro due to a combination of mounting circumstantial evidence, Alex’s conspicuous absences during all of the murders, and the fact that she had told him about her planned rendezvous with the barkeep shortly before the man was found dead. After a couple whom she knew personally is murdered by II Mostro, Christiana attends a séance in the hope that it can summon the victims’ spirit and shed light on the identity of II Mostro. During the ceremony, the medium has a vision of II Mostro butchering a pair of camping lovers and spontaneously develops a wound similar to one that II Mostro had inflicted upon one of the new victims. Christiana leaves the séance and races to the theater that she had last seen Alex at, she finds him there, which seemingly puts to rest her suspicions of him being II Mostro. The film ends with Christiana making her way to the seat next to Alex (at one point muttering “excuse me” to the viewer) before settling in to watch L’assassino e ancora tra noi.

THE CABLE GUY – After a failed marriage proposal to his girlfriend Robin Harris, Steven M. Kovacs moves into his own apartment. Taking advice from his friend Rick, Steven bribes cable guy, Ernie “Chip” Douglas, to give him free movie channels. Chip gets Steven to hang out with him the next day and makes him one of his “preferred customers.” Chip takes Steven to the satellite dish responsible for sending out television signals. Steven tells his problems with Robin to Chip, who advises him to admit his faults to Robin and invite her over to watch Sleepless in Seattle. Chip begins acting more suspiciously, running into Steven and his friends at the gym and leaving several messages on Steven’s answering machine. When Robin comes over to watch the movie, the cable is out, due to Chip, who intentionally sabotaged Steven’s cable. Chip fixes the cable under the condition that they hang out again, to which Steven reluctantly agrees. Chip takes Steven to Medieval Times, where Chip arranges for them to battle in the arena, referencing the Star Trek episode “Amok Time”. Chip behaves aggressively, nearly killing Steven, who eventually beats him in combat. When they arrive at Steven’s home, Chip reveals that he’s installed an expensive home theater system in the living room, which includes a television and a karaoke machine. Chip later hosts a party attended by Chip’s “preferred customers”. Steven decides to enjoy the party and with Chip’s help, Steven sleeps with a young party guest named Heather, who later Chip reveals is a prostitute, to which Steven responds by throwing him out. Chip tracks down Robin, who is on a date with another man. When the man goes to the bathroom, Chip severely beats him and tells him to stay away from Robin. He later upgrades Robin’s cable, saying that it is on Steven. Robin decides to get back together with Steven as a result. However, Steven tells Chip that they cannot be friends, which sets a hurt Chip on a series of vengeful acts. He gets Steven arrested for possession of stolen property at the moment that Steven makes a big business deal. During his time in jail, he is visited by his parents and Chip, who mocks him through a prison visitation window. Steven tries to alert a guard about Chip, but the guard is one of Chip’s “preferred customers” and thus does not react. After a weekend of humiliation, Steven is released on bail. During a dinner with his family and Robin, Steven is horrified to see Chip in attendance. Steven privately tells him to leave, but Chip tells him to play along or he will show everyone a picture of Steven with the prostitute. The evening goes from bad to worse when Chip manipulates the family, tells several bad jokes and eventually pushes Steven too far by playing a sexualized version of the game show Password with the rest of the family. Steven files into a rant about Chip’s true intentions but nobody believes him. Chip whispers something disturbing about Robin into Steven’s ear, which results in Steven punching Chip in the face, shocking everyone else. Chip complies and leaves, feigning depression. Steven is fired from his job the next day when Chip sends out a video of Steven insulting his boss that was recorded on a hidden camera in his apartment. Steven has a nightmare about Chip breaking down and chasing him out of the window in the middle of the night with eerie green eyes. After doing some investigating, Rick tells Steven that Chip has been fired from the cable company for stalking customers and uses the names of television characters as aliases such as Chip Douglas from My Three Sons and Larry Tate from Bewitched. Chip calls Steven that night, telling him he is paying Robin a visit. After visiting Robin’s empty apartment, Steven tracks them down to the satellite dish, where Chip holds Robin hostage in a rainstorm. After a physical altercation and a chase, Steven is able to save Robin. As the police arrive, Chip goes into a speech on how he was raised by television and apologizes to Steven for being a bad friend. Chip dives backwards from the top of a ladder above the satellite dish, falling onto it and knocking out the television signal to the entire town. Chip survives the fall and avoids the satellite’s middle spike, much to his dismay and injures his back. As Steven and Robin reunite, Steven forgives Chip and asks for his real name. Chip jokingly replies “Ricky Ricardo”. Chip is taken to the hospital in a helicopter. When one of the paramedics addresses him as “buddy”, Chip asks the paramedic if he is truly his buddy, to which the paramedic replies, “Yeah, sure you are,” causing Chip to smile deviously.'
CAPE FEAR (1962) – Now he had only one weapon left – Murder! To prevent an even more shocking game! After spending eight years in prison for rape, Max Cady is released. He promptly tracks down Sam Bowden a lawyer whom he holds personally responsible for his conviction because Sam interrupted his attack and testified against him. Cady begins to stalk and subtly threaten Bowden’s family. He kills the Bowden family dog, though Sam cannot prove Cady did it. A friend of Bowden’s, Police Chief Mark Dutton attempts to intervene on Bowden’s behalf, but he cannot prove Cady guilty of any crime. Bowden hires Private Detective Charlie Slevers. Cady brutally rapes a promiscuous young woman named Diane Taylor when he brings her home, but neither the private eye nor Bowden cam persuade her to testify. Bowden hires three men to beat up Cady and persuade him to leave town, but the plan backfires when Cady gets the better of all three. Cady’s lawyer vows to have Bowden disbarred. Afraid for his wife Peggy and 14-year-old daughter Nancy, Bowden takes them to their houseboat in Cape Fear. In an attempt to trick Cady, Bowden makes it seem as though he gone to a completely different location. He fully expects Cady to follow his wife and daughter and he plans on killing Cady to end the battle. Bowden and local Deputy Kersek hide nearby, but Cady realizes Kersek is there and kills him. Eluding Bowden, Cady first attacks Mrs. Bowden on the boat, causing Bowden to go to her rescue. Meanwhile, Cady swims back to shore to attack Nancy. Bowden realizes what has happened and also swims ashore. The two men engage in a final violent fight on the riverbank. Bowden overpowers Cady, but decides not to kill him, preferring to let him spend the rest of his life in jail. The film concludes with the Bowden family sitting together on a boat the nest morning. A lawyer’s family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail. A man enters a courthouse and asks for Sam Bowden. He watches Sam in a trial, then follows him to his car, reintroducing himself as Max Cady. Max makes vaguely threatening comments as Sam drives off. Later, Max watches Sam and his family bowling and makes a pass at the waitress. Sam calls Police Chief Dutton and tells him that Max is being creepy. He explains that Max is an ex-convict who may have a grudge against Sam and that Sam’s family may be at risk. Dutton calls his Deputies and tells them t pick up Max for vagrancy. Max cooperates and obviously knows the law, so they release him. The next day, Sam finds their dog poisoned. Sam suspects Max but cannot prove it. His wife Peggy and daughter Nancy are distraught and Sam explains about Max. Max hires a fiery lawyer, Dave Grafton who accuses the police of harassing Max. Dutton tells Sam he cannot do anything until Max commits a crime, but advises Sam to hire private detective Charles Sievers. Sievers starts following Max. He calls the police to have Max picked up for lewd vagrancy, but by the time they arrive Max is gone and the woman he was with is beaten up. She refuses to help them and leaves town fearful of Max’s revenge. Sievers suggests Sam hire a dock thug, but he refuses. The next day, Sam catches Max leering at his daughter and takes a swing at him. Max doesn’t punch back. Coming out from school, Nancy sees Max and flees, eventually running in front of a car. She’s ok, but anger builds in Sam and he gets a gun. Peggy convinces him not to go after Max. Sam meets Max in a bar and tries to pay him off. Max says he prefers “death by a thousand cuts” and turns him down. Sam hires the thugs to beat up Max, but he fights them off. Max calls Sam and tells him that he has the law on his side. Sam and Peggy discuss a plan to use Nancy as bait. Sam tells Dutton that he will “hide” his family in a boat on the Cape Fear River, then asks for a Deputy to help him catch Max. Sam and Deputy Kersek stake out the boat. Max arrives and sneaks up on Kersek, killing him. He sets the boat with Peggy on it adrift and Sam chases after. Nancy calls the Sheriff from the dock. Max attacks Peggy, but leaves for Nancy when Sam arrives. Sam and Max fight; Sam shoots Max and Max begs Sam to finish him off. Sam declines, saying Max will rot in jail. The family leaves together.