Intensity - Alone against the killer
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| German title | Intensity - Alone against the killer |
| Original title | Intensity |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 173 minutes |
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| Director | Yves Simoneau |
| script | Stephen Tolkin |
| production | Preston Fisher |
| music | George S. Clinton |
| camera | David Franco |
| cut | Michael D. Ornstein |
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Intensity - Alone against Killer (Original title: Intensity ) is an American psychological thriller from 1997 with John C. McGinley and Molly Parker in the lead roles. The film is based on a novel by Dean R. Koontz . Directed by Yves Simoneau .
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The young psychology student Chyna wants to spend a relaxing weekend with her friend's family in the country, when she involuntarily becomes an eyewitness to the police officer Vess, a serial killer, killing her friend and family. When she sees the killer carrying her friend's lifeless body into the motorhome, she believes that she is still alive. Believing that she could save her friend's life, she went to the cramped room and hid there.
However, when she wants to take care of the injured woman, she discovers that she is now dead. However, the killer has already started the journey. At a gas station she tries to escape from the vehicle and asks the gas station attendant to call the police.
However, when she leaves the vehicle, she loses a kitchen knife. When Vess returns to the mobile home, he finds the knife and realizes that the handle is still warm. From this point on, Vess knows that he is being followed. However, he does not yet know by whom. He returns to the gas station, where Chyna is now hiding behind a shelf. In front of the gas station attendant and an employee, he brags that he has a young girl named Ariel under his control. Then he shoots them both. Chyna survives unharmed because he has not found her. Chyna, who found out about the girl through the boast, only thinks of saving the innocent life. Since Vess destroyed all communication options at the gas station, Chyna takes one of the parked cars into her power and pursues him. Just before she ran out of fuel, she passed Vess and parked her car across the street. When Vess arrives at the roadblock, Chyna is out of the car and hiding in the woods. She thinks of giving up. There a mysterious white wolf comes up to her and licks her hand. Thereupon she decides to bring her project to an end.
While Vess pushes the car away to clear the roadblock, Chyna goes back to the motorhome. Vess notices this because stains on her shoes can be seen in the motor home. He then plays cat and mouse. When he arrives at his property, he first sends his trained killer dogs away so that Chyna feels safe. She goes into the house and is watched by Vess as she approaches the prison of the girl Ariel who was kidnapped by Vess. Vess overwhelms and captivates her. Since Vess has to go back to work, the now tied Chyna is alone in the house with Ariel. She manages to free herself and Ariel at first. All the while, she is constantly struggling with memories of violence in her own childhood. She succeeds in overpowering the killer dogs with ammonia and in getting to Vess' mobile home. When she opens the door of the mobile home, an alarm is sent to Vess on the pager. He returns home immediately. Chyna can leave the property with Ariel, but is stopped at the next main road from Vess.
She sees no option but to return to Vess's house. There she escapes with Ariel in their prison cell, from which they previously freed. However, unnoticed by Vess, she pours out gasoline. When Vess steps into the gasoline pool, she pours gasoline in his face again and lights the pool and with it Vess. Chyna and Ariel flee while Vess burns. Chyna tries to adopt the traumatized Ariel, who is now housed in a psychiatric hospital. However, this is initially rejected by the authorities, as they are of the opinion that Chyna herself is too traumatized. When Chyna says goodbye to Ariel in the psychiatry, the latter is initially motionless. When Chyna moves away from her, however, she calls out the name "Badger", which is a mythical figure from both of their favorite books The Wind in the Willows . Chyna used this character again and again during the time of the escape to motivate Ariel to collaborate, since she is totally absent and inaccessible. Chyna sees this as a sign that Ariel wants to stay with her, as these are the first words Ariel speaks the whole time. Then she hugs Chyna. Chyna promises her to do everything possible so that she can adopt her after all.
Web links
- Intensity - against the sole killer in the Internet Movie Database (English)