There are horror movies, which can be scary but hardly lasting. They might give you a few jolts or even make you check
twice in your closet for a night, but stories of serial killers and monsters and psychotic families of murderers hardly hit home for most people. Then there are thrillers. They may not have much action, but there is something about them that is just creepy, especially the thrillers that are realistic enough that you can believe this could happen to you. Alone with Her is such a film.
Alone with Her stars Ana Claudia Talancón (recently seen in Fast Food Nation ) as Amy, a young and beautiful Mexican-American woman who lives alone with her dog. Visited by her friend Jennifer (Jordana Spior) and a coworker-turned-potential-lover Matt (Jonathon Trent), she goes about her life just like any other woman would, doing her dishes, walking her dog, going to the bathroom, sleeping and talking on the phone. As with anyone in the confines of her own home, she spills her deepest secrets and interests to her friends. She plays her favorite music. She watches her favorite movies. Enter Doug (Colin Hanks), a socially reserved but otherwise nice guy who seems to have all of the same interests as Amy. They strike up a friendship, and while she isn''t interested in him romantically, he is into her, and despite her belief that he is nothing more than friends, he continues to save her or pull her out of jams or do things for her that make him hard to resist. Of course, what she doesn''t know is that he has been watching her on camera for months and has loaded her apartment with video and audio devices so that he can watch her day and night.
Alone with Her is startling on many levels, the first being that this could really happen. While hopefully this isn''t a common occurrence, with today''s technology it wouldn''t be hard for even an amateur to break into someone''s house, add a bunch of cameras and keep an eye on you day in and day out. The plot is so simple but so exacting - it is about a man who spies on a woman to wiggle his way into her life. Despite all the warning signs, he seems nice enough, and who would suspect that the reason he is always on cue is because he has been watching you?