Exploitation Retrospect | The Journal of Junk Culture and Fringe Media
Whispers in the Dark (1992)
Paramount Home Video | Review by Dan Taylor

Alan Alda in Whispers in the DarkHere's a film in desperate need of a director like Rodman (IN THE HEAT OF PASSION, THE UNBORN) Flender or Dan (NAKED OBSESSION) Golden.

When the mentally vacant, but sexy, client of a repressed Manhattan shrink is found murdered, the doctor must figure out who the killer is. Is it the hunky charter pilot both she and the patient were boinking? Is it the ethnic & talented, but confused & dangerous, young artist with a penchant for S&M (John Leguizamo)?

Unfortunately, I didn't care who the hell did it, yet I figured it out before the first 20 minutes had passed. Anabella Sciorra and Jamey Sheridan are wasted in obscenely dumb roles, while only Anthony LaPaglia gives the film any snap, crackle and pop as the obnoxious Jewish cop who just happens to have attended college as a psychiatry major.

Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

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