Single White Female 2: The Psycho (2005 Video) User Reviews (22)

If it isn't broke, don't fix it.

[deathcube-1 · 4/10 · 27 October 2005]

When I saw the original SWF, way back when, I was upset when it was over because I wanted more. This is it.

Single White Female 2: The Psycho cleverly apply's new twists on an old formula. It strays just enough from the original to make itself its own, while borrowing the proper elements from the first film to remind you of the first film.

I love these direct-to-DVD sequels, smaller budget, unknown actors and actresses, bottom line no ego. Everybody just trying to make the best flick they can.

I also really liked Wild Things 2 and 3.

And Ladies, These films are guilty pleasures made for men. It's like soft core with less core and more story. The sooner you understand that the sooner you can pass over them in the store, and stop whining about how misogynistic and degrading these films are. Or if your not a crazy SWF yourself you can pick it up at the video store and watch it with your man.

Bottomline, if you like the first one, see this.

Single White Female 2: The Embarrassment

[Dee-man · 4/10 · 23 December 2005]

I'm not exactly sure of the reasoning behind the subtitle "The Psycho"...a tad unnecessary if you ask me. Then again, so is the whole movie.

This "sequel" takes place in the big busy city where two roommates/business partners eventually clash, forcing one to move out and (if you didn't see this coming like a freight train) into the apartment of a lonely quiet girl who turns out to be an obsessive nut case (with an appreciation for S&M...hmm). This movie is pretty much the same as the original, save for some different plot twists and turns here and there that lead up to what might be the most boring climax in movie history, taking place in an apartment building hallway. What fun.

I agree with what one person said about the "psycho's" wig in the first part of the movie being terrible, but what was worse was the wretched black bob wig worn by the main character's ex-roommate in an attempt to make her look sexy and exotic...needless to say, if Drew Barrymoore's character in SCREAM had an evil twin, she would look like this...

functional B-movie weak actors

[SnoopyStyle · 5/10 · 14 August 2013]

Holly Parker (Kristen Miller) and Jan Lambert (Brooke Burns) are roommates battling over job and boyfriend. Holly moves out to a new place and takes on Tess Kositch (Allison Lange) as her new roommate.

There is nothing surprising going on in this script. Like the original, a woman is being harassed by her roommate. Whereas the original hits on some new paranoia, this is simply a repeat without much effort. The two actresses are both relative unknown and it shows here. They don't have much screen presence. I don't find either that compelling. The budget and style is limited. The only worthwhile performance is Brooke Burns who plays a pretty good bitch. Overall, this is a functional watch but forgettable. It adds nothing new to its predecessor.

SWF2: The waste of time&money

[a_humble_movie_lover · 1/10 · 10 May 2006]

what was this?why was this made? and more importantly, why did I waste my precious 2hours and £1.50 on this? the movie is about 2 girls sharing a flat, having a fight (over a man+job) one moving out and right into the "Psycho" girl's life. the psycho girl falls in love, gets obsessed with her new roomie/best friend and tries to eliminate everyone, including the love of her life. yaaawn.

this movie has NOTHING. the "thrilling" scenes don't thrill; the sexy scenes don't make you hot and you're not scared by anything. the acting is lame, to put it very mildly. the plot thin and direction weak.

do not even go anywhere NEAR SWF2. I liked SWF because I did encounter a person like that in life, and thought the sequel won't be THAT bad. but it was. and worse.

Kev's thoughts on the film Part 2: The Review

[movieman_kev · 1/10 · 1 November 2005]

What the hell is up with that title? Was Hedy in the first film the epitome of sanity?? Getting past the redundant title and the title sequence which look like they were written using post-it notes, you find a movie exactly like the first one. Wait no strike that, that one has Skinamax caliber acting, a surprising total lack of nudity (save for one body double and a few extras in a S&M club), and a disjointed and uninvolving plot (hey it IS like the original in that way). This movie (and I use that term loosely) was so bad that I half expected Mark Blankfield to show up in a role. OK, maybe not THAT bad, but very awful none the less.

My Grade: D-

Single White Female 2: The Fiasco

[LydiaBianca · 1/10 · 22 April 2011]

Single White Female 2: The Psycho, should be renamed : The Fiasco.

It began with some promise, and it was nice to see the sequel wasn't a carbon copy of the original.

However, my view of the film quickly changed. Never in my whole life have I witnessed such a terrible performance and production of a film. I'm aware it was a low budget film, but that is no excuse. Paranormal activity was a strong testament of how a low budget film can do well.

There was no sense of direction, every scene felt like it could've been removed - (because it didn't help develop the storyline) and there were enough plot holes to keep you buried in confusion.

None of the characters were explored in depth, and I didn't feel that the 'pyscho' showed any indication of being mental. The flashbacks were as puzzling as a pink zebra; they didn't relate to the film at all.

This is anything but a thriller, and I'm so disappointed because the 1992 film was great! This film is not worthy to have the title it has.

How Pathetic! :(

[kutestarz91 · 24 February 2007]

First off, I just want to say, the directing of this movie was absolutely agitating! I literally wanted to scream my head off! I did not understand how they made Tess obsess over this one woman who she hadn't even known very long. In the 1992 film, the story had scenes in which you could see their friendship progressing in a timely manner that made sense. But in this 2005 film, everything was rushed along awfully. The beginning, the middle, and the end were terrible! Certain scenes made no sense whatsoever. All of their acting was pathetic. The movie was much too obvious on what they were leading into. This movie was lacking everything! I couldn't really feel the characters that the actors and actresses were portraying as, they just didn't bring there all, and if they did, then they need better acting lessons! And Todd Babcock, oh don't get me started on him! He seems really quite conceded! He tried to look too "good" or "handsome". He did not act out his role well, as did not the other actors and actresses. Whoever wrote and directed Single White Female 2: the psycho, should get banned from making another movie! Sorry to say, but it was CRAPPY and a waste of time to make! I give 2 thumbs up to Part 1 of Single White Female. Both thumbs down to this junk!

An example of one of the two types of Fraudulent Sequels

[MBunge · 3/10 · 13 October 2010]

Single White Female 2: The Psycho is yet another entry into one of the more unfortunate genres of modern filmmaking - The Fraudulent Sequel. When you're in the video store and you find a movie on the shelf that proclaims itself as the sequel to a movie you have heard of but you say to yourself "I never knew they made another one of these"…odds are you're looking at a Fraudulent Sequel. These sort of movies are almost invariably horrible and this one is NOT an exception to that rule.

If you've seen the original Single White Female then you know what this story is about because it's exactly the same, just a very crappy version of it. Two women move in together and one of them turns out to be violently insane. I'm not going to bother going into the plot any more than that because I'm not joking, this is virtually a carbon copy of the first film, so if you've already seen it there's no need for me to repeat what you already know. If you haven't seen Single White Female, I don't want to ruin it for you by putting any of this movie's stink on it. Single White Female is a decent flick that's worth seeing. Single White Female 2: The Psycho is not.

I suppose I could heap abuse on the pitiful acting, writing and direction that went into this cinematic sinkhole, but I think there is something good that can come out of film this bad. Let's take this as an opportunity to examine the two distinct varieties of the fraudulent sequel.

One variety is the "bait-and-switch" sequel. That's where a studio finds an original script, makes a few very minor changes to it and then slaps a another movie's title on it. American Psycho 2 and White Noise 2 are examples of the "bait-and-switch" sequel. When watching those films it is nakedly apparent that they were not created to be sequels, but someone thought they could make a little more money by pretending otherwise. The "bait-and-switch" sequel usually makes a few references to the first film at the start, then goes on to tell a tale that has essentially nothing in common with the original. While these movies will be disappointing to viewers expecting an actual sequel, beyond that it's a crap shoot. Sometimes the "bait-and-switch" movie is actually okay and would have been better standing on its own. White Noise 2 is like that. But sometimes the "bait-and-switch" flick is awful and desperately needs to exploit the name of another movie or no one would ever watch it. American Psycho 2 is like that.

Single White Female 2: The Psycho is the other variety of fraudulent sequel. You could call it a "forced remake". That's when a studio takes an original screenplay, or at least the essential structure of an original screenplay, cuts out 90% of it and then splices whatever is left into a nearly point-by-point duplicate of another story. It's the same characters doing the same things in the same situations as the first film, they just have different names and there are one or two new wrinkles left over from the initial script. "Forced remakes" uniformly suck because people with talent and skill won't make them. Just like in school, only gigantic losers blatantly copy other people's work. That means you end up watching the same story you've seen before, just told poorly.

The only marginally entertaining thing about "forced remakes" is that, because there's usually multiple writers involved, you can try and pick out where one writer's work ends and another begins. For example, the first half of this film starts out by obviously trying to keep us guessing as to which of the female roommates is the crazy one. The second half of the film totally abandons that approach for no particular reason at all. It's clear that the person who wrote the first half was trying to be clever and the person who wrote the second half wasn't. Then there's a moment when the crazy woman is suddenly revealed to be one of those "angel of mercy" serial killers that murder sick old people. It's a revelation straight out of the blue that doesn't fit in with anything else in the story. That's clearly a remnant of the original script that survived when it was gutted and turned into a "forced remake".

Single White Female 2: The Psycho is lamely written, acted and directed. It's level of violence is corny and the only women who get naked in it are generic extras. Don't be defrauded by this movie.

Belated sequel to a cult thriller.

[DigitalRevenantX7 · 3/10 · 11 June 2015]

CAUTION: Plot spoilers present.

PR executive Holly Parker breaks up with her boyfriend & moves out of her shared apartment when she catches her best friend & co-worker Jan Lambert sleeping with him. She moves into the apartment of Tess Kositch, a painfully shy nurse who desperately needs a friend. But as soon as she settles in, Holly notices a strange number of behaviours with Tess, who has a history of convincing her friends to kill themselves in suicide pacts that she keeps getting out of. Tess also kills some of the patients in her care & frequents an underground S&M club. As Holly tries to come to terms with her new friend's lifestyle, Tess plans to drive Holly to suicide, first by killing off her friends.

SINGLE WHITE FEMALE was a thriller that became a hit during the early 1990s – one of a number of psycho-thrillers that made their name at that time. Along with Basic Instinct & the bunny-boiler Fatal Attraction, Single White Female was part of a new era of thriller, which concerned itself less with traditional boogeymen & more with dangerously unstable female characters who latch onto their prey like a lion hunting a gazelle & wreak havoc in their target's families. Despite not exactly leaving the door open for a sequel, SWF somehow managed to spawn a direct-to-video sequel with Single White Female 2: The Psycho in 2005, a good thirteen years after the original came out.

I had a sinking feeling when I hired the DVD & saw the names of Andy Hurst & Ross Helford on the sleeve as the writers – these two had made their name writing various sequels to the classic John McNaughton thriller WILD THINGS, which was actually a parody of the same kind of film that SWF belonged to. What works for a thriller parody doesn't quite work for a serious film like SWF 2. Needless to say, the film doesn't get very far.

The main problem with a direct-to-video sequel such as SWF 2: The Psycho (yeah, I know, the title needed a lot more work) is that you're trying to hit a niche market – fans of early 1990s' psycho-thrillers, mainly – but by hiring a pair of writers who had made themselves known for their parodies of the very genre your film is in, the hope of a serious film goes right outside the window. Indeed most fans of the original film had trashed this sequel badly due to this very reason. But on the other side of the coin, the film emerges remarkably better than I had initially hoped would happen. Helford & Hurst actually manage to do something serious for a change, although they drop the numerous threesomes that come in their bread-&-butter scripts (the Wild Things sequels) & replace it with a much more restrained thriller. It is quite strange to see that with the original, Jennifer Jason Leigh & Bridget Fonda were already big stars when they started work on SWF, yet went ahead with baring their bodies – yet here, Kristen Miller & Allison Lange are complete unknowns but must have had 'no-nudity' clauses put into their contracts, judging by the fact that they both don't appear naked. I suspect that had they allowed themselves to appear starkers, they would have gotten more fans than what ultimately transpired here. Other than that, I had no problem with the acting.

The story is another issue – I didn't buy the heroine's plight due to her character being a complete floozy – Kristen Miller's PR executive deliberately has sex with her client for a promotion yet dumps him when her friend & co-worker does it with him (something that would have worked better were this a Wild Things sequel) & goes through her new friend's personal belongings & spies on her. This I didn't like. Still, the film is not a total loss – the thriller mechanics, once they kick in, do the job reasonably. But as far as sequels go, Single White Female 2: The Psycho is far from what the original film deserved.

Predictable, But Entertaining

[claudio_carvalho · 6/10 · 20 December 2006]

In New York, the PRs colleagues and roommates Holly Parker (Kristen Miller) and Jan Lambert (Brooke Burns) are disputing a promotion in their agency. The unethical Jan deceives Holly and sends her to Chicago; meanwhile, she seduces Holly's boyfriend David Kray (Todd Babcock), in the opening of the fancy restaurant of his own, and they have one night stand. When Holly arrives back home, she finds that David cheated her with Jan, and she decides to move to a new apartment. She schedules a visit with the needy Tess Kositch (Allison Lange), and they become roommates and friends. When Tess cuts and dyes her hair identical to Holly's style, she sees that her new roommate is obsessed on her. When Holly follows Tess to the underground night-club "Sin", she realizes that the girl is deranged. But Tess wants to be her friend and put Holly out misery, eliminating her former bad friends.

"Single White Female 2: The Psycho" is practically a remake of the original movie. Since the beginning, the viewer knows who the killer is; inclusive it is written in the synopsis of the DVD. But the unknown cast has good performances, I found Kristen Miller very beautiful and elegant and in spite of being predictable, this film also entertains. The shameful DVD does not have any Extra, subtitles or closed caption. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Mulher Solteira Procura 2" ("Single Woman Seeks 2")

2 out of 10 stars is a gift to this film...

[moviedude1 · 2/10 · 4 November 2007]

How does that line in "Henry VIII I Am" go? Oh, yeah: "Second verse...same as the first!" When the movie first started, I thought Burns' character was going to be the bad girl in here, as she's done before, but that she wasn't was the only mild surprise in this film. If you've seen the original with Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, you're not missing much by skipping this film. I noticed it was so bad, it was never even released theatrically in the US! The girls are all pretty, but the film is pretty predicable.

Save yourself the trouble and rent the first one on DVD! Like I stated in the summary, 2 out of 10 stars is a gift to this film. I'm actually surprised that I couldn't wait for this movie to end so I could end up trashing it like I've done..and if you've ever read any of my other reviews, you'd see that it would take a lot for me to trash something like this. Unfortunately, I can't find one thing to save this movie.

Don't listen to the negative comments

[crimson_satin · 10/10 · 16 January 2009]

Don't listen to the negative comments posted about this movie. Forget about all the stupid expectations of the cliché generation, whose criteria for what makes a good movie are never based on the essence, atmosphere or intrinsic quality of a movie. This movie is well made and well acted all round, and has a distinct, uniquely mysterious atmosphere, mainly because the actress who plays the villain is so mysterious, beautiful and sexy that it borders on the supernatural! The music is great too, after the first two or three songs in the beginning. As for the movie not being a "theatrical release" or "box office smash", who cares? The Core wasn't a "box office hit" either, and it's still a great movie, as are many other movies that didn't appeal to idiots, like Memento. Lastly, who cares about Henry VIII? All those soulless, CGI-generated knights-on-horseback oneupmanship movies. Now THAT is what I consider worthless junk! (With the exception of Troy)

"There's a moment, just before the end... a moment of clarity, where all it finally seems to make sense".

[mario_c · 6/10 · 11 January 2009]

SINGLE WHITE FEMALE 2: THE PSYCHO is in the same line of the first movie. The plot is similar, the characters are a bit different, settings too, but what really changes is the end and the way the plot gets its final disclosures.

In a certain way I think the first movie is better well done, because the plot flows more naturally and nothing seems to be forced, unlike this sequel, where some scenes seemed to be jumped just to be similar to the first movie (The scene where TESS paints her hair to red. It came out of nowhere - because they didn't almost even relate – just to be close to the first movie. The bar scene either, but here I must say the scene in the sequel was better done). But on the other hand I enjoyed more the answers given to this plot and the open ending this story has.

I must say I appreciated this kind of philosophical speech about the act of dying told by TESS:

"There's a moment, just before the end... a moment of clarity, where all it finally seems to make sense. I saw it in the ELIZABETH's eyes. I want it for me."

It seems a bit disturbing, but I found some deepness in these words!

This sequel might be a low cost production (it is for sure) but in my perspective it's not worse than the first movie. Also, it's probably more suspenseful, but here also contributes the soundtrack, which is more effective providing suspense to the film.

It was a good surprise, since I was expecting something worse...

amusing trash

[disdressed12 · 5/10 · 4 January 2009]

i don't know what to think of this movie.i mean,it's definitely trashy,and more soft core porn than thriller.there's some pretty bad hairdo's in this one.and there the pretty people,and i mean that in a sarcastic way.the two friends/co workers were supposed to be hot,i guess,but they really just seemed plastic.the only woman in the movie i found attractive was Alison Lange because she wasn't all prettied up.she has natural beauty to her.anyway,that's beside the point.back to the movie.there aren't really any sympathetic characters.they all get what they deserve,especially for being as stupid as they all are.having said that,i actually thought this was a fun movie,watching the bad acting,and the main characters continually trying to screw each other over.if you ask me,they're all nuts.and then there's Todd Babcock doing his best Julian McMahon impersonation.all in all it was trash,but it was amusing trash,i'll give it that.my vote for single White female 2:The Psycho is a 5/10

Straight to DVD sequel proves an improvement over the original

[Leofwine_draca · 5/10 · 3 July 2013]

As a straight-to-DVD sequel made some 13 years after everyone had long forgotten about the original movie, SINGLE WHITE FEMALE 2: THE PSYCHO (what a useless sub-title!) doesn't disappoint. By that, I mean it's as defunct as you imagine it's going to be, a slightly cheesy follow-up to the first film featuring none of the same actors and an all-too-familiar script.

As DVD bargain bin fodder goes, SINGLE WHITE FEMALE 2 is far from the worst I've seen. The most interesting thing about it is the story, which avoids cliché for the first half and sets up an interesting situation in a love triangle that centres around a PR agency in New York. You're left guessing as to who the titular psycho is. Things gradually become more predictable towards the ending, and the climax is just as you'd expect, but for the most part it's not too bad and it held my interest.

One interesting thing about the production is TV director Keith Samples, who directs this film like it's a softcore erotic thriller, such as the ones Shannon Tweed starred in (endlessly) during the 1990s. Every actress is required to do at least one underwear or semi-nude scene, all the women wear low-cut, loose fitting clothing, and Samples spends an inordinate amount of time ogling female flesh.

While the cast is nothing to write home about, I quite enjoyed the performance from the unfamiliar actors. Kristen Miller headlines and makes Holly a tough, sympathetic lead for the most part, while Allison Lange does well to play it understated for much of the running time. Todd Babcock and Brooke Burns are less effective, but certainly passable enough for this genre.

So, in summation, SINGLE WHITE FEMALE 2 is just about par for the course for this sort of film. It's certainly fast-paced and held my attention for the running time. Given that I didn't like the original movie at all, I found this a step up despite the obvious flaws.

unknown director and actors - sub-mediocre film

[dromasca · 4/10 · 22 December 2005]

TV director Keith Samples at his first long format film, directs a team of of unknown actors in this mediocre flick. The story is set in a PR firm in Manhattan, where female rivalry seems to be leading sooner or later not only to bad flat partnership, and boyfriends swapping, but soon to crime. The criminal element may however show up from the direction of the third female, the apparently innocent good girl, too innocent for the viewer not to suspect that she is going to draw aggressively the kitchen knife, sooner or later. I am hinting to the main problem of this film. Although the story is not that bad the lack of experience and inspiration of the director and actors lead to a much too predictable film, which is not much more that an opportunity to show some flesh and some blood, but is neither sexy enough or scary enough for the viewers to care.

A poorly made copy of the original 1992 film.

[filipemanuelneto · 2/10 · 3 December 2020]

Set in New York, the story of this film centers on Holly Parker, a young woman who works as a publicist and lives in an apartment with Jan Lambert, her co-worker and best friend. Holly decides to move soon after discovering that, in addition to the apartment, she was also sharing her boyfriend with Jan, who proves to be a cynical and unscrupulous woman, who uses all weapons to get what she wants. Holly goes to live with Tess, a lonely girl, very sweet and apparently trustworthy... but she hides a painful past and a dark side that will endanger her life.

So? Does the script summary look familiar? For those who have seen the first film it will surely look like a poorly made copy... and it is! Directed by Keith Samples, it is a film that, in addition to plagiarizing the original, made more than ten years ago, has no cinematic sense: sent directly from the studio to the DVD boxes, it was designed for small screens, for TV and home video. In addition, it was sold as a sequel when it works more like a remake, as it tells the same story as the original film, only with an additional dose of generous breasts and lacy lingerie, something that the first film had, but not in so much. That is, we are watching the same film, but worse and with less quality.

The cast is mostly composed of young actresses with generous boobs and probably eager to succeed in their careers. I don't mean to say that they did a bad job, but the fact is that none of them shone, and they seem to have been chosen for their bra size and not for their talent. Kristen Miller and Allison Lange bring the main roles to life and were minimally effective, albeit monotonous and unable to surprise. Of course, the film makes the most of their physical beauty and there are some very erotic scenes. In turn, the charismatic Brooke Burns left us an effective villain, worthy of our despise, but who also does not have the proper development and is a victim of the bad material received.

Technically uninteresting, it has a monotonous, televised cinematography, washed colors and a boring look, like a TV movie that didn't have a good budget. The sets and costumes fulfill their role, but without shine or merit. The soundtrack is virtually nonexistent or, at the very least, forgettable. The fast pace makes the film more digestible, but does not cover its problems.

Shallow on every level

[Enchorde · 3/10 · 14 November 2009]

Recap: Two career-minded young and successful women, Holly and Jan, live together but compete for everything. The promotion at the job and even more importantly perhaps, boyfriends. No rules apply and Holly flees the apartment after Jan tricked her out of town during a important business meeting and then seduced Holly's new boyfriend. Holly moves in with Tess, a vulnerable young woman that soon take a liking to Holly. Too much perhaps, because soon Tess copies Holly clothes, hair color and starts appearing at her job. All the while Tess tries to force Holly to break with her former friend Tess seem more and more manipulative.

Comments: A rather poor attempt to make a psychological thriller. Unfortunately it seems they forgot to bring the psychological element and seem content that the audience will keep watching just because all the leads are young and beautiful actresses. It doesn't work.

To add a psychological level to any movie you need suspense to go with some really well written and developed characters. Relationships need to be given time to be established and to evolve slowly, to seem really plausible. This movie gives the opposite. There is no depth to the characters. Each and every one of the three leads are shallow, manipulative egoistic and it is hard to sympathize even with the heroine. Neither of them is very friendly, even to their good friends. Also the relationships develop without cause or explanation, it looks more like temporary alliances and feuds that start and end with a single word.

The story is also predictable on a level that even the heroine should see what is happening. It annoys me that she suddenly trusts her new roommate (Tess), whom she has known all of a few days, more than old friends when Tess accuses them of having tried to take advantage of her. Why would she do that if she had any real connection with any other person? No, this movie doesn't work, at all. Sure, I can see that the women are beautiful, but that doesn't make a movie. And it is far too little when you try to build something deep and intriguing out of thin air.

3/10

An utter failure on every count *SPOILERS*

[anxietyresister · 2/10 · 29 August 2008]

Does the director of Single White Female 2 have an underwear fetish? Every five minutes there seemed to be a scene with a sexy woman walking around in her lingerie. I counted about six different colours too! Victoria's Secrets must have bankrolled the film for product placement. Not just that, but he takes every opportunity to show these nubile young things bending down or standing at an angle to get the highest ratio of cleavage. Yet, when it comes to delivering the goods, by delivering the whole boob experience, he chickens out and instead gives us a selection of body doubles or back shots. The only nude scenes in the entire movie are in a club for perverts, as tied-up extra get whipped, violated or abused in other ways. Nice.

What? You wonder why a spent a whole paragraph discussing the finer points of on-screen nakedness? Because it's a distraction from having to write about the rest of the film. If you've seen the original, you'd think this has a similar plot: A nice, normal girl is going to move in with a deranged lady (The clue's in the title) who slowly takes over her flatmate's life, while simultaneously slaughtering her new flatmate's friends one by one. Correct, but with just one exception. The nice girl in part II is not a very nice person. In fact, she's downright despicable. She lies to her friends, she breaks personal belongings then denies it, she unlocks boxes containing cherished possessions to have a look inside, and yes, she is a total bitch. Any right minded person would love to see her get a comeuppance. Bridget Fonda she ain't.

So, besides her and the mad, pensioner-murdering, nurse roomie, is there anybody else in this cocktail of bad acting and materialistic values to root for? Well, there's the main protagonist's slutty best friend who seems to be an exact copy of her dreadful mate.. only difference is one's a redhead, the other's locks are black. They work at a PR firm together, and their competitiveness in being the first to get a promotion is completely boring to everyone at home. Then there's the dopey hunk of a boyfriend who comes between these two bimbos.. he leaves so little impression in the picture he might as well stand there in his striped boxer shorts scratching his butt while the gals fight it out. If anyone looks like they just wondered in from a GAP ad, it's him. I DID enjoy the performance of the girl's boss at the company, sadly his acerbic wit only livens up a handful of scenes.. then it's back to the bitchiness and general air of tedium that set the tone for the rest of the movie.

Not only are 95% of the people featured here incredibly irritating, they are also extremely stupid. Why is there blood on the floor? Why, the workman cut his hand while trying to fix something and he's just gone to the hospital! Of course I believe you! Next, I think I'll drink this wine given to me by someone I suspect is borderline insane. Is it drugged? Certainly not!! Then, we have the big treasure chest which conveniently contains news clippings about every victim the villianess has ever murdered, as well as her life history, discovered by the 'heroine'. So much for covering up the evidence. The class of serial killers just ain't wot it used to be. Still, at least this gives audience members who haven't been watching for the last hour a chance to catch up with the storyline. Oh and yes, I am being sarcastic. DUH!

Finally, we have the predictable HUGE CLIMAX between the two women, though why anybody would bother to cut the main phone line so the other party can't summon help with the surfeit of mobiles in America in 2005 is a mystery to me. It works, though. Strange, that she's had her Nokia with her in every scene other than that one. Much hysterical shrieking, pseudo-lesbianism and gratuitous throat slashing of black police officers ensues, until finally the torture is over and we can all go home. And no, I don't means the torment endured by the local constabulary at knife-point. Straight To DVD should have meant Straight To The Bin in this case. YUCK! 2/10

Another Roommate from Hell

[Wuchakk · 5/10 · 1 July 2020]

In New York City, two PR colleagues (Kristen Miller & Brooke Burns) compete for a promotion in their agency when one of them (Miller) decides to move out of the apartment they share and respond to an ad for a roommate from a woman that's not in their social class (Allison Lange). At least one of these women is a... psycho. Todd Babcock plays the beau.

"Single White Female 2: The Psycho" (2005) is a stand-alone sequel to the 1992 film and is far from a carbon copy. Being direct-to-video, it has a no-name cast and lacks the sense of artistry of the original, but Kristen Miller makes for a quality protagonist while Burns is perfect in the biyatch role and Lange is effective as the misfit.

It helps that the plot mixes up the formula and the setting isn't as one-dimensional as in the original where practically the entire story took place in an aged Gothic apartment building. It also has more pizazz and isn't as tediously monotone. Unfortunately, it's not as memorable. It's effective enough for the genre & direct-to-video, but also kind of forgettable. More coulda and shoulda been done with the resource of Kristen Miller.

The film runs 1 hour, 30 minutes and was shot in Los Angeles, California.

GRADE: C+

Better than the first?

[catfish-er · 9/10 · 16 October 2011]

SINGLE WHITE FEMALE 2: THE PSYCHO is definitely cast out of the same mold as the original. The first movie was very well done, well acted, well directed, and a great plot.

While the plot for the second is similar, I really liked the way everything was neatly tied up at the end. I have a hard time deciding whether the first or second is better.

The first movie was very original; but, I liked the back-story and story line of the second better. I also liked the acting in the second better; albeit it is hard to top Bridget Fonda. I think the sequel had more suspense; and, the soundtrack really propelled things along well.

I am really a fan of old, b-grade horror, so seeing a low-budget, modern sequel that is driven by story and character, without relying on computer-generated effects is really more to my liking!

Highly Suspenseful and Richly Satisfying Film Extraordinaire

[jlthornb51 · 10/10 · 28 May 2015]

This is a worthy sequel to the original nail biter and a superbly frightening film in its own right. With an original script full of scares by Glenn Hobart, Andy Hurst, and Ross Helford, the movie moves along at a very fast pace with hardly a dull moment. The direction is by the visionary Keith Samples and once again he does not disappoint when he is at the helm. He gives the story a disturbing atmosphere and uses his camera like a sculptor a chisel. What is truly outstanding about this small film are the performances of the female leads. Kristen Miller, Allison Lange, Brooke Burns, and Tracey McCall are extraordinary actors. Not only do they give this film sensuality and fire, they are all lovely and the camera loves them. Miller is particularly striking and uniquely gifted. In the role of Holly Parker she is nothing less than superb and gives a very memorable performance indeed. It's virtually impossible to take one's eyes off screen whenever she appears and she has that certain quality that few actresses now days possess. It is an easy prediction that we will see her in the near future accepting a gold statuette. With a fine director, a strongly structured, surprising script, and some of the best actresses to step before a camera in years, this is an underrated gem and one motion picture that demands to be seen.