Review Love at First Kill (2012)
Review by by Char Hardin
Writer: John Daly
Director: Guy Lee Thys
Stars: Margot Kidder, Lyne Renee and Noah Segan
Original Title: The Box Collector
A pretty divorcee moves in next door to Harry (Noah Segan) and his overly protective mother Beth (Margot Kidder). The woman is gorgeous and right away is pegged by Beth as trouble and she orders Harry to stay away from Marie Dupont (Lyne Renee) and her little girl KiKi. However, Harry has no chance withstanding the charms of the enchanting Marie. It is not long before he becomes a fixture in her life and she in his, so much so that he has taken to babysitting KiKi while her mother works at the local plant.
Beth consults the cards with friend Luz (Adriana O'Neil) visits and the women receive a warning that trouble is in their mist and they should be leery of the "Queen" in their midst. Beth is convinced the card refers to Marie. Later Marie is spied in a compromising situation and Beth informs her best friend Luz. Luz's husband has a wandering eye...but it isn't his eyes that have a tendency to stray. The way this woman took care of her man could only be described as KARMA. Karma is something Luz should have thought about in regards to herself.
As the story continues the viewer learns Marie has a past she is running from and after some time wants to include Harry in her future and feels he needs to go away with her and her daughter. He needs to leave his whacked out mother who is keeping him chained to his life in small town and chained to his mother.
Slight Spoiler Alert...If you want to know where the shift in the story is...keep reading. IF not skip this paragraph!
Well his mother has her own secrets and as secrets always have a way of coming out...hers do too and they are not the not too subtle shift in this thriller...actually something said earlier on was the shift, but you have to pay attention the medication in order to catch it.
I thought this movie was good. It's streaming on Netflix and well worth the sometime hassle of having to wait for it to load a few times before it finally gets going. Margot Kidder was excellent as the over protective mother with secrets. She has a scene where she arrives seconds after someone has thrown a garden Gnome through a downstairs window of Marie's house, while upstairs Marie and Harry were having a post sex talk. Harry gets dressed in shirt, jeans and flies down the stairs to find his mother with her walking stick outside look at the window. Seconds later the police arrive. Margot gave her statement that she heard the crash and "came running". Her statement is hilarious to me, because leading up to that early scene and then all throughout the movie, she is seen hobbling around with her walking stick. She is not able to "run" or rush quickly anywhere!
Another intense scene with Margot is when her character Beth is in the kitchen after a funeral. Harry approaches her and learns of the burial, while he had been talking to the police about the incident with the garden gnome. He informs her of his decision to leave the town and her to go off with Marie and her daughter to start a new life. Beth has a meltdown and all her anger and pain is pulled from and just lets Harry have it. This particular scene was one of my favorite intense moments with Beth and Harry.
Noah Segan plays Harry. I have been a fan of Noah since seeing him back in 2007 on my favorite soap opera Days of Our Lives as Conner Lockhart. Most recently he was seen in the science fiction-crime action film 'Looper'. He was Kid Blue. In that role he was looking to impress the boss man and well...that's another story. I didn't care for the 'Looper' movie, but liked some of its actors.
In 'Love at First Kill' his role as Harry was tender and questioning. He grew up without a father (part of his mother's secret) all he knew of his father was that he was his son and he was gone. Harry felt like his mother had erased any and every trace of his father. As his own story starts cooking, clues and hints from his mother's past and what happened to his father start to bubble up and the viewer see subtle changes in Harry. The ending was a "WOW!" moment for me. I didn't think Harry had it in him. He seemed to be a whipped "Mama's boy" coming to terms with a beautiful woman in his life and wanting to break away from his controlling mother.
The break that happens is not one the viewer expects are sees coming. I would recommend this thriller to fans of Margot Kidder and even those of Noah Segan. It is something I could watch again and think, "Dammit, I just didn't see that coming...AGAIN!"
For more from Char visit her website www.CharHardin.com
Writer: John DalyDirector: Guy Lee Thys
Stars: Margot Kidder, Lyne Renee and Noah Segan
Original Title: The Box Collector
A pretty divorcee moves in next door to Harry (Noah Segan) and his overly protective mother Beth (Margot Kidder). The woman is gorgeous and right away is pegged by Beth as trouble and she orders Harry to stay away from Marie Dupont (Lyne Renee) and her little girl KiKi. However, Harry has no chance withstanding the charms of the enchanting Marie. It is not long before he becomes a fixture in her life and she in his, so much so that he has taken to babysitting KiKi while her mother works at the local plant.
Beth consults the cards with friend Luz (Adriana O'Neil) visits and the women receive a warning that trouble is in their mist and they should be leery of the "Queen" in their midst. Beth is convinced the card refers to Marie. Later Marie is spied in a compromising situation and Beth informs her best friend Luz. Luz's husband has a wandering eye...but it isn't his eyes that have a tendency to stray. The way this woman took care of her man could only be described as KARMA. Karma is something Luz should have thought about in regards to herself.
As the story continues the viewer learns Marie has a past she is running from and after some time wants to include Harry in her future and feels he needs to go away with her and her daughter. He needs to leave his whacked out mother who is keeping him chained to his life in small town and chained to his mother.
Slight Spoiler Alert...If you want to know where the shift in the story is...keep reading. IF not skip this paragraph!
Well his mother has her own secrets and as secrets always have a way of coming out...hers do too and they are not the not too subtle shift in this thriller...actually something said earlier on was the shift, but you have to pay attention the medication in order to catch it.
I thought this movie was good. It's streaming on Netflix and well worth the sometime hassle of having to wait for it to load a few times before it finally gets going. Margot Kidder was excellent as the over protective mother with secrets. She has a scene where she arrives seconds after someone has thrown a garden Gnome through a downstairs window of Marie's house, while upstairs Marie and Harry were having a post sex talk. Harry gets dressed in shirt, jeans and flies down the stairs to find his mother with her walking stick outside look at the window. Seconds later the police arrive. Margot gave her statement that she heard the crash and "came running". Her statement is hilarious to me, because leading up to that early scene and then all throughout the movie, she is seen hobbling around with her walking stick. She is not able to "run" or rush quickly anywhere!
Another intense scene with Margot is when her character Beth is in the kitchen after a funeral. Harry approaches her and learns of the burial, while he had been talking to the police about the incident with the garden gnome. He informs her of his decision to leave the town and her to go off with Marie and her daughter to start a new life. Beth has a meltdown and all her anger and pain is pulled from and just lets Harry have it. This particular scene was one of my favorite intense moments with Beth and Harry.
Noah Segan plays Harry. I have been a fan of Noah since seeing him back in 2007 on my favorite soap opera Days of Our Lives as Conner Lockhart. Most recently he was seen in the science fiction-crime action film 'Looper'. He was Kid Blue. In that role he was looking to impress the boss man and well...that's another story. I didn't care for the 'Looper' movie, but liked some of its actors.
In 'Love at First Kill' his role as Harry was tender and questioning. He grew up without a father (part of his mother's secret) all he knew of his father was that he was his son and he was gone. Harry felt like his mother had erased any and every trace of his father. As his own story starts cooking, clues and hints from his mother's past and what happened to his father start to bubble up and the viewer see subtle changes in Harry. The ending was a "WOW!" moment for me. I didn't think Harry had it in him. He seemed to be a whipped "Mama's boy" coming to terms with a beautiful woman in his life and wanting to break away from his controlling mother.
The break that happens is not one the viewer expects are sees coming. I would recommend this thriller to fans of Margot Kidder and even those of Noah Segan. It is something I could watch again and think, "Dammit, I just didn't see that coming...AGAIN!"
For more from Char visit her website www.CharHardin.com