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Don't Look Down

1998, Movie, R, 86 mins

Don't Look Down: Review

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This psychological thriller danbbles in the damsel-in-distress subgenre and is sometimes surprisingly suspenseful. During an outing to the mountains, photographer Mark Engel (Billy Burke) snaps portfolio shots of his wife, Carla (Megan Ward), and her younger sister, Rachel (Tara Spencer-Nairn). When Rachel switches places with Carla by a cliff, the guardrail gives way. Carla blames herself for Rachel's accident and becomes haunted by guilt; it seems to her like a replay of a childhood incident in which Carla dared Rachel to jump from their roof. With visions of a plummeting Rachel dancing in her head, Carla develops acrophobia and when her TV-news assignment requires her to station herself on a balcony, Carla has a panic attack. Desperate to control her phobia before it destroys her life, Carla contacts miracle worker Dr. Paul Sadowski (Terry Kinney). A former mountain climber, Sadowski agrees to include Carla in his current research study in overcoming fear of heights, which involves three other acrophobics: Ben (William MacDonald), Hallie (Kate Robbins) and Jocelyn (Angela Moore). A fifth patient, Zak (Aaron Smolinski), is irresistibly attracted to high places. The group begins making inroads into its phobias, but just as Carla's nightmares start to subside the Grim Reaper begins stalking her fellow sufferers. Of course, window-washer Zak might have fallen off a skyscraper accidentally and Hallie may have made a suicidal leap to her death. So when Sadowski suggests that Carla exorcise her demons by revisiting the scene of Rachel's accident, she complies. Is a supernatural force motivating Sadowski's patients, or is a flesh-and-blood killer determined to give Carla a push in the wrong direction? Well above average for a made-for-TV chiller, this fright movie feeds off dizzying effects and some literal cliffhangers. If the denouement doesn't live up to the buildup, the production provides enough vertiginous scares to compensate. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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