Swimfan - 2002 * *

Sometimes it's murder getting the man you want.

If I had never seen a film with this premise before ( psycho woman goes after man and ruins his life) then I would have been tempted to rate this highly. However as this isn't a new idea and has been done to death (Fatal Attraction, The Crush, Crush) I can't really get too excited about it.

Jesse Bradford is the school jock Ben, ( there always has to be one in any American horror film, it's getting a tad boring...) who's life is taken over by swimming. He has a nice if not terribly exciting girldfriend called Amy and a group of weird friends ( including yet another jock and 2 outcasty women)and things seem great. However when new girl Madeleine Bell turns up and directs her attentions towards Ben, he just cannot resist ( having no brain or morals of his own except in his trousers) and things get heated yadda yadda. (I've decided to start feeling sorry for the crazy woman instead of the unfaithful git who can't control himself in future films like this if I ever dain to watch another one)You'll know the rest without me telling you and probably even guess the ending so there isn't much point watching this really. Watch Fatal Attraction for the primary film that started this whole obsessive craze off, that's the only one that will get you on the edge of your seat.