The quiet suburb of New Salem is being terrorized by a brutal serial killer who abducts and tortures young women, holding them captive for weeks before murdering them. Aubrey Fleming, a talented pianist and aspiring writer, appears to be his latest victim when she disappears without a trace during a night out with friends. As the days tick by, the special FBI Task Force convened to track the killer begins to lose hope of finding her before it’s too late. Then, late one night, a driver discovers the young woman by the side of a deserted road, disheveled and critically injured, pleading for help. The girl is rushed to the hospital, where Aubrey’s distraught parents, Susan and Daniel, wait by her side as she slips in and out of consciousness. When she is finally able to speak, she shocks everyone by claiming to be a down-on-her luck stripper named Dakota Moss who has never heard of Aubrey Fleming. Convinced Aubrey is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, her doctors, parents and law enforcement officials can only wait for rest and therapy to restore her memory. But after returning to her parents’ suburban home, she continues to insist that she is not who they think she is, despite bearing bizarre wounds identical to those of the serial killer’s previous victims. The FBI agents are further mystified when they search Aubrey’s computer and discover a short story about a girl with an alter ego named Dakota. When Dakota begins to suspect she may be Aubrey’s identical twin sister, Susan shows her a video of her pregnancy ultrasound clearly revealing there was only one fetus in her womb. Confused and terrified, Dakota starts seeing visions of a menacing figure slowly butchering his captive. Convinced that time is running out both for Aubrey and herself, Dakota confronts Daniel with a shocking truth that leads them on a frantic hunt for the killer. –Inbaseline
Not the delirious mess I hoped but still an adorable little failure, like a group of vapid yet sincere high school kids remaking Mulholland Drive. Its actually far more ambitious and interesting visually than most films released in multiplexes these days (Sivertson obviously adores his giallos) but too juvenile to become a true "bad movie" masterpiece.
They should show this movie at film school as an example of how NOT to make a movie. Everything about this film is bad. It doesn't even have the good sense to be bad in a campy-fun sort of way. It's actually just bad in a please-god-make-it-end sort of way. Forcing people to watch this film could be used as a form of punishment.
This may shock everyone, but I think this movie is very misunderstood. It's directed very stylishly, just like a giallo, Lindsay Lohan gives a solid performance, and let me tell you, I saw horror movies get critical acclaim with worse screenplays. I know many people consider it one of the worst movie ever, but I think it's actually a very interesting - flawed - mess of a movie.