Grace Winston kills her husband.

The Perfect Stalker released in 2016, the directorial work of Curtis Crawford who is also known for directing Trust No One starring Nicole de Boer. Now Trust No One is not to be confused with Trust Nobody. It wasn’t a trilogy and I’m pretty sure in Trust No One there might be at least one person you could trust. Although I could be wrong, I haven’t seen that movie.

It was written by Suzanne Dolan and Bryan Dick. Danielle Savre plays Grace Winston, the titular perfect stalker and suburban crazy woman. Grace starts off the movie diagnosed with HPD, which I learned stands for Histrionic Personality Disorder. She makes rash decisions, has a lot of mood swings, acts like an asshole, has a tendency toward stalking, and puts ranch on her pizza. In other words, she’s the kind of woman who turns a man gayer. Maybe it’s because I’m on the outside looking in, or because Danielle is a very skilled actress, but she is very clearly a psychopath.

The only person who doesn’t quite know to get away is her husband Harvey (Scott Gibson). Harvey wants a divorce because he’s pretty sure Grace is going to inevitably flip her shit and he’s going to end up getting stabbed repeatedly and left bleeding on the kitchen floor. And that’s if he’s lucky, he’ll probably end up with something large and metal shoved up his ass. Thankfully Grace is kind and just kills him via an electrical “accident.”

Grace moves to a new town and meets Robert Harris (Jefferson Brown) and his girlfriend Erin (Krista Morin). Within minutes Grace has decided that she’s going to make Robert her own, because Robert is a pretty handsome suburban dad. The kind of guy who writes books, has fancy dinner parties, and would likely be keen to bang his neighbor the moment his wife dies tragically. You know, assuming his wife dies tragically. He’s also probably the type to not notice the obvious psychopath.

The Perfect Stalker is an impending tragedy movie. All of this is eventually going to go sideways, and the only question is how much damage will Grace do by the time it all comes to an end. John Koensgen plays Wayne, a guy who investigates things for a living and who you just know is going to end up a thorn in Grace’s side. How far will she take the victim complex? And when she does inevitably get caught will she go down in a blaze of glory?

Grace wants to picture herself as the perfect stalker, hence the title of the movie, but like many criminals there are plenty of smarter cops. And that comes in the form of Detective Charles (Richard Chevolleau) who starts looking into the past of our Grace, realizing that a string of murders suddenly spiking up following a recent new neighbor whose husband died under…shall we say, mysterious circumstances. There might be a connection there.

The Perfect Stalker is not the perfect movie. Its story is completely serviceable and made better by a cast of actors who are completely competent at their jobs. Runtime is an hour and a half, and being a human drama there’s no crappy CG to ruin the film. You know how it’s going to end, for the most part.

Rating: B