A WOMAN OBSESSED
A viewer obsszzzzzzzz......
Also known as Bad Blood, this one's one of those movies that features Linda Blair when she's neither topless nor spewing green goo - in other words, wasting her talents.
A man is stopped on the street by an art dealer who swears he's seen the man's portrait. So this man (Ted) is taken to the gallery where, sure enough, that's him up on the canvas. He meets the artist - an eccentric old bat who knows her work is shit. Then she drops the bomb on him - he's her son! The scene where he confronts his adoptive mom about this is just excruciating. Four minutes long without a cut as this lady explains how she stole this baby away from Joe, the natural father, while the poor guy just sits there and nods his head. (and the viewer just sits there and nods off) Anyway, Ted and his wife are invited to his new mom's place for the weekend, and then mom starts calling him Joe...
I don't know who that chick is on the cover.
This one is pretty deriviative of Misery - the book, that is (this movie predates the film). Ted even has his toes broken one by one by his captor. (no points for guessing that "This Little Piggy" works its way into that scene)
There's some nifty use of split-screen at the end, when Ted's adoptive parents circle the perimiter of crazymom's mansion trying to get in, while crazymom just barely beats them to each door on the inside, locking them as they get to them. It's kind of neat to see somebody's arm go in the window in one half, and enter through the window in the other, so that they ALMOST look like one shot.
Still, fairly lame overall. The chick who plays crazymom is credited as "Georgina Spelvin", which is the actress equivalent of "Alan Smithee". At least according to the IMDb, which (as the Doc loves to point out) is hardly infallable.