While She Was Out

From the opening sequence to the last frame, the most horrifying aspect of While She Was Out is that it ever managed to see the light of day. There is a whole list of things wrong with this film. Kim Basinger made one of the greatest comebacks of the past 20 years with her performance as a femme fatale in Curtis Hanson's 1997 film LA Confidential, based on the novel by James Ellroy. The role, which saw her star opposite Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe, earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On the basis of this, those glory days are well and truly gone. Here, Basinger plays the role of pathetic and down-trodden housewife, Della, who goes on the run after angering quite possibly the most pathetic psychopaths in history thanks to a dispute over, of all things, parking. Our heroine, boring to an almost offensive degree, finds herself trapped in a housing development armed only with a tool box and the will to survive - something anyone who forces themselves to watch this is likely to misplace. But the main reason this movie fails so badly is thanks to the character of Chucky (Lukas Haas) and his three idiotic cronies, so laughably bad that they will render you almost speechless. Every scene in this schlock horror is about as predictable as you can imagine and not even the supposedly "shocking" last frame amounts to very much. While She Was Out is quite simply dreadful. I suggest you go out and do something less boring instead.

Every scene in this schlock horror is predictable and not even the supposedly "shocking" last frame amounts to very much.