Actor turned director Randy Spears looks very smug in the BTS short subject for "Two" after wrapping principal photography: he thought he did a fine job. But from arm's length his approach to the thriller genre is pedestrian, not up to the level of Wicked Pictures contract star Stormy Daniels in the central role.
SPOILERS:
There's little suspense as Randy tips his hand at the outset, having Stormy arguing with an off-screen voice, automatically an obvious ploy indicating she's a schizo es with a split personality. In case study main genre mainstream movies like "Two Faces of Eve" or TV's "Sybil" this isn't a problem, but here the show could have been developed in a far more interesting manner, and in fact the screenplay receives no screen credit at all.
So Stormy turns out to be a murderous femme fatale named Linda (also calling herself Erica but not mentioned in the end credits), warring with her mousy, bespectacled & sympathetic alter ego named Tess. Spears casts himself as a polic detective trying to identify the serial killer at work in his small town, but the film does an exceedingly poor job of portraying a police procedural, en route to a very disappointing open ending.
Saving grace here is Stormy's fine performance in the dual personality roles, very convincing in both personae. Near the end Spears stages a clumsy and again way too obvious scene before a mirror where the two faces of Stormy clash and she is permitted to overact. Even that scene is clutzy, ending with a trite distorted face in a broken mirror image, total cliche.
Best scenes in the film involve empathetic Tess romanced by low-key and persuasive good guy Marcus London, a lonely divorcee who befriends her while shopping in her second hand thrift shop. The great Veronica Hart has a brief and somewhat irrelevant role as Tess's boss at the shop.
Cinematographer Francois Clousot uses his annoying soft-focus photography for this one, hardly appropriate. It is interesting that four cameraman worked on the 3-day shoot, all of them bonafide movie directors: Clousot, Michael Raven and Jake Jacobs. Sex scenes in support of stormy are executed by a very young looking India Summer as Randy's wife and buxom Carly Parker as an uninhibited stripper, whose on-stage act would surely get her arrested (just as set-up Stormy was in Ohio recently in real life).
Extras, including Wicked Pictures producer Mark Nicholson, get screen credit for their on-screen performances, except for a blonde beauty playing the cop who interrogates Linda -her exception just to annoy me as I thrive on having complete credits where credit is due.
SPOILERS:
There's little suspense as Randy tips his hand at the outset, having Stormy arguing with an off-screen voice, automatically an obvious ploy indicating she's a schizo es with a split personality. In case study main genre mainstream movies like "Two Faces of Eve" or TV's "Sybil" this isn't a problem, but here the show could have been developed in a far more interesting manner, and in fact the screenplay receives no screen credit at all.
So Stormy turns out to be a murderous femme fatale named Linda (also calling herself Erica but not mentioned in the end credits), warring with her mousy, bespectacled & sympathetic alter ego named Tess. Spears casts himself as a polic detective trying to identify the serial killer at work in his small town, but the film does an exceedingly poor job of portraying a police procedural, en route to a very disappointing open ending.
Saving grace here is Stormy's fine performance in the dual personality roles, very convincing in both personae. Near the end Spears stages a clumsy and again way too obvious scene before a mirror where the two faces of Stormy clash and she is permitted to overact. Even that scene is clutzy, ending with a trite distorted face in a broken mirror image, total cliche.
Best scenes in the film involve empathetic Tess romanced by low-key and persuasive good guy Marcus London, a lonely divorcee who befriends her while shopping in her second hand thrift shop. The great Veronica Hart has a brief and somewhat irrelevant role as Tess's boss at the shop.
Cinematographer Francois Clousot uses his annoying soft-focus photography for this one, hardly appropriate. It is interesting that four cameraman worked on the 3-day shoot, all of them bonafide movie directors: Clousot, Michael Raven and Jake Jacobs. Sex scenes in support of stormy are executed by a very young looking India Summer as Randy's wife and buxom Carly Parker as an uninhibited stripper, whose on-stage act would surely get her arrested (just as set-up Stormy was in Ohio recently in real life).
Extras, including Wicked Pictures producer Mark Nicholson, get screen credit for their on-screen performances, except for a blonde beauty playing the cop who interrogates Linda -her exception just to annoy me as I thrive on having complete credits where credit is due.