As a lonely, single guy in 1990's, I watched WAY too many "erotic thrillers" on late-night cable. The "erotic" part was always pretty debatable, but very few of these movies were at all "thrilling", especially as time went on and they became increasingly lousy with slumming porn actors, interminably long softcore sex scenes, and horrid music (that all seemed to be composed by a guy name "Herman Beeftink"). This movie, even though it was a half-assed vehicle for then-star of TV's "Melrose Place" Brooke Langton, is actually a lot more entertaining than most.
Langton places a sexy young thing who has just moved into her boyfriend's apartment, but she has a jealous lesbian girlfriend (Sara Buxton) who won't let go. Through a crossed wire or something, she starts listening in on the phone sex conversations of someone in the building, and she realizes that this person's phone sex partners keep turning up dead. But is it the handsome but creepy upstairs neighbor, the landlady's disturbed brother, or is it perhaps someone closer to home?
OK, in real-life there are probably half a dozen ridiculously sexy women anywhere in the world who were actually into phone sex in the 90's(if they weren't getting paid for it that is) and five of the sex get murdered in THIS movie. So, obviously the plot is less than believable. Still, this does keep you guessing to the end. It has some elements of superior thrillers of the era like "Single White Female", but while it's not as good as that one, it actually does have a much better ending. The erotic content is kind of brief as these films go, but that also makes this more entertaining than most as an actual MOVIE. Being the seething cauldrons of acting talent that they were, Langton and Buxton could not be called on to actually express their lesbian passion by stripping off for some hot girl-on-girl action, but that is not nearly as big of liability as it would be in a lesser movie. I would actually, tentatively recommend this. It's not much of a compliment perhaps, but there are only two direct-to-cable 90's "erotic thrillers" I actually think are better than this, "Sensation" with former MTV "VJ" Kari Wuhrer and Eric Roberts and "The Fourth Floor" with Juliette Lewis and William Hurt.
