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Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While working on a slasher film being shot in Moscow, she is locked in the studio after hours. When Billy witnesses a murder, she must struggle to evade the Russian Mafia and stay alive.
It feels like Waller poured all the inspiration he ever had into one movie. But for a film forged through a favor and trial-by-fire moviemaking, it earns its place in the panoply of '90s psychological thrillers that throw you for a loop or six.
Gets off to a great, scary start, but then turns silly and comical, breaking the film's tone of dread.
January 16, 2003
USA Today
Though this slight but agreeable nail-biter loses a couple steps before its wrap-up, it's not before offering one of the funniest variations yet on the furious neighbor who wonders what's going on in the upstairs apartment.
January 01, 2000
New Times
A Sam Raimi wannabe that doesn't always strike the right balance of humor to thrills, but comes close
January 22, 2003
ColeSmithey.com
Great suspense thriller.
October 27, 2005
eFilmCritic.com
Once you see it, you'll have an enthusiastic new response when people ask you "Hmm, what's a good horror movie I've never seen?"
Waller's witty, well-crafted yet unpretentious thriller--about American youths who make a movie in Moscow and get involved with the underworld--is a seductive piece of filmmaking that should keep viewers hyperventilating to the last reel.