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Monday, March 6, 2023

Stalked by My Doctor: Just What the Doctor Ordered

At this point Beck is a downright supervillain because no cage can hold him.  He escapes the mental hospital during a fire he possibly started and finally gets the hell out of the southwest opting to flee to the Atlanta area.  While holed up in a gigantic Victorian style mansion a new family moves in so he’s gotta figure something else out.  But before he leaves he sees that it’s a mother and teenage daughter who’ve taken up residence and he does his usual creepy ogling and fantasizing.  The daughter, Alex (Grace Patterson), has an undiagnosed heart condition so when she passes out one night alone Beck anonymously calls an ambulance saving her life.  Later at the hospital he sneaks in to hear Alex needs a nurse at home to take care of her while she waits for a heart transplant donor.  Miraculously once again, Beck stumbles across an in.  While posing as the new nurse he searches for his own unwitting donor so he can give Alex a new heart.

What’s really interesting about this one is the core story involving Alex and her heart is strong enough that it could be a separate movie all by itself.  You see Alex has a rare blood type so the chances of her finding a donor in time are reduced greatly giving the situation a dire kick in the pants.  There’s tons of drama and tension between Alex and her mother trying to navigate this shit plus Alex’s father died from the same condition so it’s like they’re living that nightmare all over again.  I don’t know if this exact scenario has been done before but someone should get on it.  There’s a real good film idea in here.  But then the silly part is they throw a monkey wrench into the works with Beck and his insane bullshit.

And of course so much shit simply falls into Beck’s lap like that a teenage girl moves into the house he happens to be hiding in, she has a heart condition so he knows how to take care of her, the nurse that the hospital hooks the mom up with is a single woman living alone with a gender neutral name (Chris McCoy) so Beck can easily steal her identity, there’s an abandoned hospital at the edge of town that Beck can use for his lair and jeez Louise.  This fuckin’ guy’s luck is off the goddamn charts!

Overall this sequel is one of the better ones not only due to the respectable surrounding plot but also because it’s a scary notion when you find out the person you hired to take care of your loved one in your own home turns out to be a murdering pedophile.  It’s like a twist on The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.  So it’s a more believable story than say the last sequel while giving the right amount of goofiness we’ve come to expect.  For example Beck kidnaps a dude to remove his heart to give to Alex but he escapes and immediately gets run over by a semi.  Perfect.

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