Motion Detected

In 1965 one of the world's top directors cast one of the world's top stars in an oddball B&W horror film called REPULSION. The film was a major international success, and also set the standard for creepy horror films following a lead actor (usually a pretty girl) performing daily tasks in a really creepy house. This genre was especially appealing to first-time film-makers because the ingredients were so basic -- girl, house, camera, film, script. Dozens of these kinds of productions were done in the following decades --- culminating with the bizarre CHRISTINA'S HOUSE (1999), which added a new ingredient to the mix, a serial killer hiding (literally) in the walls of the house. MOTION DETECTED can be considered a throwback to this style of film-making, with "technology" filling in for the serial killer. Everything about this film could have been done so much better -- the script especially. The end result, however, is a herky-jerky production that fails more often that it succeeds. Nostalgia lovers only. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))