***SPOILERS*** Worth watching just to see actor Patrick Muldoon's performance as the crazed murderous and possessive children's book writer Clab Theroux who does an excellent revival of the movie "Psycho" psycho killer Norman Bates. It's Clab who's obsession of breaking up the Alden's Kathy & Richard, Holly Marie Combs & Roak Critchlow, and thus keeping Kathy and her eight year old son Sam, Max Burkholder, all to himself that leads to the climatic bloodbath at the Hidden Glade Estates. It's Caleb's murderous rampage that shocked that peaceful and quite gated community down to it's socks and elevator and platform shoes.
We already get a clue what's to happen in the movie in a triple murder committed in Arizona who one of its victims included Phoenix detective Miles Porter ,Richard Roundtree's, goddaughter Cindy. Retiring from the Phoenix Police Deartment and going on his own to find Cindy and her parents murderer the road leads Porter straight to the Hidden Glades Estate Condominiums in far off California. It's there that children's book writer Calab Theroux resides who's using the pen name of Edward Parlman. It was Parlman aka Caleb Tharoux who wrote a children's book who's storyline or characters in it was eerily similar to the triple murder back in Phoenix that included Det, Porter's goddaughter Cindy! In fact Porter found a copy of the book at the Phoenix murder site and the person that wrote it was the wild eyed and a bit unstable Calab Theroux who now has his eye on Kathy Alden!
It through a number of staged,by Calab, incidents that Calab get's close to Kathy and her son Sam leaving her husband who's almost always away on business out in the cold. Caleb goes so far in splitting up the Alden's that he tips Kathy off to the fact that on Richard's latest business trip he had blond and sexy former girlfriend, before he met Kathy, Susan O'Quinn, Jennifer Gareis, come along to help him out with his very heavy and back breaking workload!
***SPOILERS*** Feeling that he now has Kathy in his back pocket Caleb really goes bananas in dropping his guard and going all out to get her to become his personal squeeze or woman. Caleb even goes so far as murdering Miles Porter, who came to visit or arrest him at the Hidden Glades Estates, as well as drug Molly's estranged husband, who by then she was on the outs with, in an attempt to get Molly & Sam to accept him as the man and father, to Sam, in the Alden household! It's really Patrick Muldoons incredible performance as the crazed Calab Theroux that brings the film up a couple of notches above the usual run of the mill Lifetime Network made for TV movie. The man is completely cracked up in the head yet at first he seems harmless and even a bit likable. It's as he becomes more and more obsessed with Kathy, like he did back in Phoenix Arizona with Cindy, that his bad crazy and murderous side came to the surface.
We already get a clue what's to happen in the movie in a triple murder committed in Arizona who one of its victims included Phoenix detective Miles Porter ,Richard Roundtree's, goddaughter Cindy. Retiring from the Phoenix Police Deartment and going on his own to find Cindy and her parents murderer the road leads Porter straight to the Hidden Glades Estate Condominiums in far off California. It's there that children's book writer Calab Theroux resides who's using the pen name of Edward Parlman. It was Parlman aka Caleb Tharoux who wrote a children's book who's storyline or characters in it was eerily similar to the triple murder back in Phoenix that included Det, Porter's goddaughter Cindy! In fact Porter found a copy of the book at the Phoenix murder site and the person that wrote it was the wild eyed and a bit unstable Calab Theroux who now has his eye on Kathy Alden!
It through a number of staged,by Calab, incidents that Calab get's close to Kathy and her son Sam leaving her husband who's almost always away on business out in the cold. Caleb goes so far in splitting up the Alden's that he tips Kathy off to the fact that on Richard's latest business trip he had blond and sexy former girlfriend, before he met Kathy, Susan O'Quinn, Jennifer Gareis, come along to help him out with his very heavy and back breaking workload!
***SPOILERS*** Feeling that he now has Kathy in his back pocket Caleb really goes bananas in dropping his guard and going all out to get her to become his personal squeeze or woman. Caleb even goes so far as murdering Miles Porter, who came to visit or arrest him at the Hidden Glades Estates, as well as drug Molly's estranged husband, who by then she was on the outs with, in an attempt to get Molly & Sam to accept him as the man and father, to Sam, in the Alden household! It's really Patrick Muldoons incredible performance as the crazed Calab Theroux that brings the film up a couple of notches above the usual run of the mill Lifetime Network made for TV movie. The man is completely cracked up in the head yet at first he seems harmless and even a bit likable. It's as he becomes more and more obsessed with Kathy, like he did back in Phoenix Arizona with Cindy, that his bad crazy and murderous side came to the surface.