While walking on the beach, Natalie (Brandy Dawley) finds an old nautical phone from a derelict ship awash on the shoreline. She brings it back to her house, polishes it up, and puts it on display in her home. Pretty soon, the phone begins ringing, and when Natalie answers, the phone is abuzz with ominous, indecipherable gibberish. Before long, Natalie begins having nightmares about a faceless specter stalking and seducing her. Things become complicated when her ex-girlfriend Sasha (Ali Chappell) shows up.
It Knows You’re Alone contains scenes of beautiful women walking around aimlessly, colorful psychedelic sequences, random solarized shots, and a cast of TWO. That can mean only one thing: It’s a Chris Alexander movie.
Fortunately, it’s a huge improvement over the last Alexander flick I watched, Space Vampire. This time out, he imbues the film with a surprising amount of atmosphere and even a touch of dread. While it’s far from perfect, he does a better job here capturing the surreal feeling of a waking nightmare than he did in his previous attempts. There are even moments here where I would be so bold as to say they felt like something out of a no-budget Jean Rollin movie. The sequence where Natalie pursues the faceless specter through the woods is particularly well executed.
I'm not saying It Knows You’re Alone is great or anything. There are stretches that feel padded out (even though the film is only forty-six minutes), and the identity of the ghost is a foregone conclusion. However, I like the fact that Alexander keeps essentially remaking the same movie again and again. He’s got a passion for dreamlike scenes of hot babes wandering around in a trance, and by God, he’s gonna keep making pictures that reflect that obsession. I admire that. I guess if he keeps making them, I’ll keep watching them.
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