Nicole Grace (Traci Lords) and Susan Warfield (Crystal Bernard) become friends at a club and when they learn that they look enough alike that Nicole can get away with using Susan's ID and insurance to get care for her ulcer at an ER. They both have a dark past - Nicole did time for shoplifting and Susan's dad left when she was two and her mother has just died. A few weeks later, Susan tries to check in with Nicole, but she's disappeared and the hospital says that the patient they had - named Susan Warfield - has died. An Aaron Warfield has authorized her to be cremated and a lawyer is suing the hospital for $10 million dollars, as they had the wrong blood type, due to them thinking she was someone else. The real Susan is running low on cash, so she hides out at the vacant apartment and starts wearing Nicole's clothes.
This death ends up introducing her to her real father Edgar Warfield (George Dickerson) and the idea of her half-brother Aaron, who her father tells her to never meet as he's not kind to women. She's also driving Nicole's car, which almost ends up with the cops arresting her. She tries to make it home but a man is stalking outside and she's saved by Ron Holden (Judge Reinhold), who seems to be a good person. Well, seems to be, because spoiler warning, he's Aaron and as they investigate the case together, he's killing people that can tell that he's the one who murdered Nicole.
The last movie directed, written and produced by Larry Cohen, this has some good ideas. And yes, maybe it's the least of his efforts, but it's a sort of American giallo about both the hero and villain not being who they say they are. My only issue is that Crystal Bernard is attractive, but no one would ever confused her with Traci Lords.
This death ends up introducing her to her real father Edgar Warfield (George Dickerson) and the idea of her half-brother Aaron, who her father tells her to never meet as he's not kind to women. She's also driving Nicole's car, which almost ends up with the cops arresting her. She tries to make it home but a man is stalking outside and she's saved by Ron Holden (Judge Reinhold), who seems to be a good person. Well, seems to be, because spoiler warning, he's Aaron and as they investigate the case together, he's killing people that can tell that he's the one who murdered Nicole.
The last movie directed, written and produced by Larry Cohen, this has some good ideas. And yes, maybe it's the least of his efforts, but it's a sort of American giallo about both the hero and villain not being who they say they are. My only issue is that Crystal Bernard is attractive, but no one would ever confused her with Traci Lords.