I'm on an unintentional mini spree of made for TV movies, and this one keeps that going.
Fatal Charm stars Christopher Atkins, Amanda Peterson, James Remar, and the great Andrew Robinson. It premiered on Showtime on February 22, 1992, which is the year I guessed instead of 1990. Sometimes, my friends, you just nail it?
Christopher Atkins plays Adam, a man who is arrested in suspicion of a string of deaths that have been happening recently. He is profusely proclaiming his innocence, and he finds support in young woman Valerie. She is living in a bizarre situation as her stepdad James Remar is trying to fuck her, and she is having bizarre sexual dreams where she gets fucked doggy style by different men. Anyways, she reaches out to Adam and starts a correspondence as he goes through his trial.
This movie is disJOINTED! I mean, the sexual dreams have nothing to do with the plot and are never explained number one. It's just an excuse to have sexuality and nudity, since this is Showtime after all. Valerie is never given motivation beyond that she's just a dumb kid, and when the twist happens, we never learn anything about the killer or about that motivation either.
People often make the overused joke that some movies "feel like softcore porn". Well, this might be the actual movie that is that joke. This is not even very "porny" for softcore and could have used more. It is fun though in that hazy gauzy late night grimy lowest common denominator factor, and I did enjoy it despite myself. It is just by no means high brow entertainment. 3.5 stars.
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