The Paramedic Who Stalked Me (2023)

For the umpteenth LMN psycho/stalker flick, it was pretty good. I think they’ve done all professions/occupations at this point. In fact, I thought it would probably be a carbon copy of the Eric Roberts ‘Stalked By My Doctor’ one, since they’re both in the medical field, but it stood out on its own.

Of course it contained the usual tropes of the victim exploring the psycho’s background to find his motivation for stalking her, the attempted murder of the victim’s romantic partner, hypodermic needles, the killing of anyone who catches on to the psycho’s lies, and the worst, most over the top one of all: psycho breaking into victim’s house to lay on her bed, etc., and the victim getting into psycho’s house to find evidence.

My only real complaints: the noticeable mis-matching of not only the psycho and his object of obsession, but of the mother and daughter too. They didn’t look like they were related at all – much less mother and daughter. But even worse were the paramedic and the high school girl he was obsessed with. I cannot understand why they would use an actress that’s two feet shorter than the antagonist and looks around fourteen/fifteen at the oldest. It adds to the lack of credibility. I had to laugh when she put her arms around him in an attempt to hug him out of gratefulness early in the movie – her shoulders were barely above his waist! Surely the producers could’ve found an actress who was only six inches or so shorter than him?

I must admit I had the intended reaction that was manipulated from the audience at the very end, when his laughter turned to crying – I couldn’t help but feel sorry for him.

Grade C / 6 out of 10.