Every lying cheating scumbag's worst frizzy haired blonde nightmare.

Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) has a moment of extra marital pash with blonde Alex 'bunny boiler' Forrest (Glenn Close). She then claims him as hers, even though his wife doesn't know... yet...

"As a serial philanderer I have to admit that this is one of my favorite movies. It gives Mr Penis quite a thrill to think that the bitch I am pashing is about to go nuclear on my ass, and that of my family and pets."

"I have a 1980's frizzy perm fetish and can completely understand how Michael Douglas's character got so caught up in the moment. And, you know, even knowing what I know after watching this movie, I would still go for it!"

"I never liked bunny rabbits in the first place."

"This movie brought back fond memories of sending taped messages to my loved ones in happier, 1980's, times. Today's kids, with their internet and instant messaging, are missing out on all of the fun of the cassette tape. You know, I always found it so difficult to fit what I had to say onto one side of a C60. (That's 30 minutes of talking, kids.) Today you'd get a voice on the end of the cell phone telling you to get to the f&*king point... Oh! Happy rambling times."

"I walked out of this movie. It is horribly vicious - I have not been able to have a bath filled to the top since, without horrible flashbacks and watery shouts from the woman living in the apartment underneath."

"A bathroom joy! Is this what Leonardo DiCaprio based his be-blued face drowny-sinkage at the end of Titanic on? A modern classic, as well as a warning to men with cocks to stop sticking them into people they meet at parties - no good will come of it, other than a furry rabbit stew!"

"The moment of bunny boiling is now a classic, it probably has its own internet site for all they tell me."

Alex pursues Dan, she finds out where he lives after he changes the phone number to stop her phoning. Alex befriends his wife on the pretext she is to buy the house. An awkward meeting occurs at the house...

Dan continues to spurn Alex's declarations of love, she tells him she is pregnant with his child, she goes to his house and boils his bunny rabbit. She temporarily kidnaps their daughter from school. She then breaks in to the house in an attempt to kill his wife with a knife. Alex is eventually overpowered in the bath. Then she comes to life again and is shot by Dan's wife, Beth.

One of those Halloween type, murderous 'what will it take to finish her off' movies, but this one set in suburbia with nice frizzy perms, suits, expensive cars, and not a baseball mask or chain saw anywhere in sight.

A well produced 'nightmare' movie with the end never really in any doubt, although the number of false endings in this movie is quite disturbing. Not recommended for people with pacemakers, unless the battery is running low.

A tale of modern morality, although I would expect the number of unscrupulous, horny, men who were put off from pashing because of this is marginal, indeed how many found the whole thing a massive rogering turn on?

Certainly not one for bunny rabbit lovers, but, for the rest of us, one of those movies to witness, not enjoy exactly, but one to say you have seen - and, of course, to see first hand what a bunny boiler is.

In a bath filled to the very top when you sit in it.

The movie nods its head to Psycho, but this time the splicing happens in the bath, not shower. The movie is filled with consummate moments of slicing horror and very realistic violence.

The tension is nicely played throughout, until it climaxes in a horror fest at the end.

Nobody goes for her hair though, are they trying to duff her in or not? Had someone pulled her fringe forwards she might not have gotten out alive...

Clearly this movie is a thinly disguised morality tale, showing men the consequences of their evil willy poking ways.

Dogs will particularly enjoy the bunny boiling scene and could take you to their collection of buried shoes after this movie ends.

Cats will enjoy Glenn Close's hair, dreaming of the endless opportunities for violence were a mouse to get lost in there.

Domesticated rabbits, perhaps surprisingly, will particularly enjoy this movie, and the bunny boiling scene in particular is a favorite as, to them, it looks like a really comfortable, albeit extremely hot, bath.

The scenes of violence are very realistic and, at a guess, some real bruises were earned, especially in the Douglas-Close duff up as he throws her on the ground quite hard (or was this a stunt double - that hair could hide anyone).

A rabbits leg/nose good luck charm.

If you have messed with a psycho the only real solution is to nuke the bitch, or have you tried hypnosis?

Thank you, dear Lord, for giving us this wonderful movie. In this movie you have given us enough evidence to prove how full of wrath your handy self can be when dealing with our many shortcomings. Help us learn the lesson that being unfaithful will always lead to us being punished by a frizzy haired woman with a psycho knife. Amen.

A vicious movie which offers little warmth. Not one you will want to watch over and over, but a movie you may be forced to watch just to find out all you will ever need to know about bunny boiling.

Claustrophobic, cold, a movie which shocked when it came out, and the wave after wave of tension at the end is still effective. Compulsive viewing.

June 27, 2003.