'Stalker' ain't Stalkin' My Head. That Sucks.

Martin Kemp, that dude from EastEnders seemed to make a fine effort in his directorial debut: 'Stalker' but beginner's luck seemed to cluster out off of him.

Sometimes looking like an episode of 'Ghost Whisperer' or 'Ammerican Horror Story' but rest of the times looking like an aridly eerie sight, 'Stalker' follows the life of a struggling novelist by name: Paula (Anna Brecon) who was barricaded by her writer's block while trying to pen her second bestseller.

Her agent Sarah (Jennifer Matter) decides to give her a break; Paula then roads back to her country home hoping to gain back her novelist mind. There appears Linda (Jane March) her new assistant that will ultimately twist the story of this chiller.

Silly and uneven, 'Stalker' at least suggests a worth watching thriller. Jump scares and acting may be out of place, but a handful of scenes can be safely tagged: 'genuinely creepy'. Crispy and all over the place, the acting decides to stay that way, Jane March and Anna Brecon comes confusing at times veering abruptly from gloomy and eerie to 'almost laughably cloying five-year old crying for ice cream' type.

If we need to give credits, we could spare the duo some: culturing a fright and grows it patiently. It comes as a shame when the constant over-heightened emotional surge of their characters comes in evidence. If it is meant to develop a psychotic element within the film, which happened, then it is certainly tolerable.

If real credits are what we are generously giving, then give it to Billy Murray, playing a cameo as an insistent journo for a magazine that reviews paperbacks. The other actors fared a good performance too: Colin Salmon and Linda Hayden.

I remember that TV show based off of a Stephen King novel, 'Bag of Bones', starring Pierce Brosnan playing an author too, who also goes back to his home. Not that this has anything to do with the review, I just wanted to pen it out, Einstein.

'Stalker' seemed to be a very fine chiller, but thoughts about the vagueness of the film ponder my mind: like up to now, I don't know if it's just me, that I don't get the real connection of the title: 'Stalker' to the actual flick.

While 'Stalker' generates a decent amount of shock though only handful, but few are tastefully terrifying, iy doesn't offer a remarkable that unlike its title, it ain't stalkin' my head. Mean, I forget about it easily.