Stalked by My Doctor: The Return

Unfortunately the sequel is nowhere near as entertaining as it’s predecessor.  Sure Eric Roberts is still fun as Beck and he even pulls some real bastard moves like making his new teenage target think her boyfriend gave her genital herpes so she’ll break up with him.  Oh and there’s the attempted rape too.  But while the first film could squeak by as a real Hollywood type movie this one has a more low budget made for TV production feel.

Honestly, it's kinda boring.  Albert Beck, now going by Victor Slauson, is still hiding out in Mexico trying to pick up broads by feeding them a pack of lies.  No success so far.  An opportunity presents itself though when he saves an American teenage girl (Claire Blackwelder) from drowning at the beach.  He follows her and her mother back to San Diego and smooches up to them to infiltrate their lives.  Beck has learned from his mistakes so he plays the long game by planning to marry the mother so he can really move in on the daughter.  In other words, we got Lolita.

In real life it’s scarier for a stranger to pretend to be a reserved normal guy when he’s a psychopath underneath but in this case I would’ve preferred Beck go the other way and act crazier and more desperate in attempting to land a victim.  We don’t get great lines like “thank you for that enlightened analysis…you fat ass bitch!” or grossly sensually applying ointment to a surgery scar here.  However, there’s a part where Beck goes to inject someone with a syringe full of cartoonish neon blue liquid and later when he disposes of a body he produces two huge containers out of nowhere labeled “hydrochloric acid” so that’s something.

While this isn’t that terrible really it doesn’t have quite the same eccentricities or, magic is taking it too far, enjoyable silliness (?) of the first.