In the creation of 'Alex Linden', director Nicolas Roeg and his screenwriter Yale Udoff have come up with a psychopath to set alongside Norman Bates in Psycho. At the start, the story runs like a suicide attempt by a girl after a tiff with her boyfriend. But gradually, horrifyingly, Roeg prises the relationship apart until you realise the truth. One can't go further into the plot without touching on the final, nasty twists to a very unpalatable if well-made story. Theresa Russell, here coming over as a kind of young Gloria Grahame, is very good as the girl. But actor-singer Art Garfunkel is only barely equal to the demands of her analyst lover.

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