SYNOPSICS
Peril (2000) is a English movie. David Giancola has directed this movie. Michael Paré,Morgan Fairchild,John James,Steve Eastin are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2000. Peril (2000) is considered one of the best Thriller movie in India and around the world.
In a low-risk mental hospital near Rutland, Vermont, Vincent goes berserk days before he's to be released, kills four staff, and escapes. The next morning, just before the release of waters from the local dam, a couple named Scott and Terry decide to find some money Scott's brother stole and hid years before: the water will soon cover the spot, and Scott needs the money for an operation to correct a bone disease that's crippling him. Complicating things is the fact that Scott's older brother is the local chief detective, searching for Vincent. The two stories cross when Vincent takes Terry hostage as Scott faces drowning from the rising waters.
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Ms. Fairchild and Mr. Pare must be nostalgic for the 1980s...
I found "Peril" in my local video shop back in Sofia, Bulgaria. Sure, straight-to-video-in-Bulgaria films tend to be real stinkers, but after the first 15 minutes of the film, I started to think I had found an exception to the rule. Michael Pare is a mental patient who goes on a violent rampage. Meanwhile, Morgan Fairchild is a harried housewife who accompanies her semi-disabled husband on a not-quite-legal treasure hunt. The husband falls into a storm drain and can't get out, and Ms. Fairchild goes for help because the water will start rising soon. So far, so good. Unfortunately, it's all downhill from here. Ms. Fairchild meets Mr. Pare, who kidnaps her. Pointless mayhem ensues, including crack police sharpshooters (okay, one guy sitting on top of a wobbly van...think he'll miss?), a hostage crisis in a gasoline-soaked grocery store, an old station wagon able to outrun a slew of Vermont police cars, and rising water that threatens the trapped husband (who lies moaning in agony, gripping his broken leg, when the plot requires him to be helpless, but can run with just a slight limp when the plot requires him to be helpful). By the 30-minute mark, I found myself shouting helpful advice to the characters, particularly Ms. Fairchild, who must have read only the first few pages of the script before accepting this role (I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt here). By the 60-minute mark, "Peril" had crossed the line into the painful-to-watch category. Let's go back to the husband trapped in the storm drain for a moment. He's too heavy for the wife to lift him, so she goes for help. Now that the water is rising, shouldn't it help him? He can simply float up with the water and pull himself out, right? Nope, in "Peril," the screenplay confuses his situation with the often-used movie crisis in which a person is held/chained down while the water's rising (like in "Titanic" or "Hard Rain"), and shows us shots of the water rising slowly up and over his body. You're not chained down, pal...use your arms and swim, already!
You Will Be Yelling At Your Television...
I bought this DVD (for $2, mind you), as I am an avid fan of Morgan Fairchild...and although she's not wielding a shotgun and blowing stuff away, as in "The Seduction", she does her best to portray the Despondent Housewife With A Self-Loathing Husband In A Financial Rut-Who Knows Of A Treasure Buried In A Storm Drain. At the other end of the spectrum, there is Michael Pare, playing the Mental Patient On The Loose After Way Too Easily Escaping The Mental Hospital. After a hilariously brief attempt to retrieve the treasure (exacerbated by the husband falling into the storm drain and injuring his leg(s) about twenty seconds after they got there), the paths of Ms. Fairchild and Mr. Pare cross right after she goes for help and finds out...get this...she locked her keys in the car. Imagine that. After checking only 2 of the 4 doors to see if one was unlocked, she flags down the first motorist she sees. Guess who it is? Yep, Mr. Pare, driving an RV, complete with newly-dead-previous-owners. From there, she is abducted, and, though she is seemingly given about 10 different chances to escape, somehow chooses to remain the victim for about two thirds of the movie (complete with a "Morgan Running Through The Woods" montage of sorts). Meanwhile, our pathetic husband, who is making less than a zero attempt to get out of the storm drain, continues to sit there...but he found the treasure...no matter, he's still stuck in the drain...which is slowly filling up with water...which he ridiculously starts drowning in because he's too lazy/stupid to try and stand up. An ensuing gun battle between Mr. Pare and the VT police force (all of whom, of course, miss him with every shot while Pare predictably shoots all of them with his gun that never seems to run out of bullets) later results in Pare's eventual demise, but it's the events tucked within these points (particularly in the pathetic husband, who, once finally rescued, can suddenly use his legs) that will have you yelling at your television. Add to this the super-corny dialog, and you have the makings for an R-rated Lifetime Movie. Campy, clichéd, and ridiculous, yet attempting at something genuine, this is the movie that you watch with your friends once...and alone forever after.