The Stranger Within (2013)

With the look, feel and pace of a daytime soap and populated with actors who appear to think their only job is looking good, this hard-to-watch psychological thriller about a woman dealing with trauma, paranoia, jealousy and fear in a remote mansion is of only momentary interest for featuring William 'How did I end up here?' Baldwin; the rest of the movie reeks of four friends with a camera giving movie-making a go on a 'swingers' weekend away.

☆☆☆☆☆

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Sliver (1993)

A short-lived genre in the 90s was the "erotic thriller starring Sharon Stone" and in this not very erotic nor very thrilling addition, based on the Ira Levin book, Sharon Stone is the new resident in a NY apartment complex that happens to be not just under the thrall of a serial killer but also a shadowy voyeur who has the building under complete video-surveillance, affording viewers a look at what Director Phillip Noyce evidently thinks titillating: highly improbable, choreographed soft porn interactions between Sharon Stone and the likely culprit.

★☆☆☆☆

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