You Killed Margo!

sol-kay

**SPOILERS** Uneven thriller that has to do with a Ted Bundy-like serial killer who seems to get his victims off guard before he murders them. The killer does that with his both charming personality and disarming, usually wearing a cast on his arm or leg or in crutches, demeanor.

Were kept in the dark to who this serial killer is but as soon as Anthony Perkins shows up as a reputed private investigator named Paul Miller it becomes obvious, to those of us watching, that he has to be the guy just by how he acts and carries himself; like a beady eyed and uncontrollable psycho.

Miller goes right after Joanne Warren, Rosanna Arquette, in his investigation of the what becomes known as the "Deep in the Woods" killing. Miller suspects that her brother Tommy, Christopher Rydell, is the one who's committing the murders. Miller is so weird and off-the-wall that you just can't help feeling, like Joanne, that he has to be the one who's committing all these killings. But as the movie unfolds it becomes apparent that not just Miller but everyone in it has a very good chance of being the killer.As the bodies start to pile up the person whom you had first suspected in killing them ending up with an air-tight alibi that he, or she, were somewhere else when the murders were committed.

Getting enough evidence to have Tommy take a psychological test by the police to see if he's truly the psycho that he's curtain he is Miller is shocked to find that Tommy passed it, in proving that he isn't, with flying colors! It's later that Miller finds out that Tommy had been secretly prepping for the test where he knew what answers to give! It also turns out that Joanna's boyfriend Frank, D.W Moffet, may very well be the killer when Joanne finds her girlfriend's Margo (Kimberely Beck), who was murdered the night before, blood stained scarf in the trunk of his car!

As all this is going on we finally get to know what's the real reason for the creepy private investigator Paul Millers obsessive interest in the case and are surprised to find out that his fiancée was murdered by this same "Deep in the Woods" killer some five years ago when he was stationed in Germany with the US Army! Miller had been tracking the killer all these years and is determined to capture and have him face the bar of justice. Not just in the eight murders that he committed here in the states or the other 13 victims that he offed back in Europe but for the murder of the woman that he loved that was taken from him before he had the chance to marry her.

Anthony Perkins' last film that was released some six weeks, October 26, 1992, after his death on September 12, 1992 at the age of 60 from AIDS. Anthony Perkins in the film looked extremely, even for him, thin and gaunt from the ravages of that deadly disease. It was good to see Mr. Perkins go out as a good and, well that may be debatable, normal guy for a change after all the psycho films that he made during his very successful movie career.

score 6/10

sol-kay 11 March 2007

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1616300/