Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) proves again what an inconsistent director he can be with this wildly contrived and hugely disappointing chiller. The visuals are impressively stylised, as Jordan summons up the nightmare world in which New England resident Annette Bening becomes trapped while she finds her mind invaded by the thoughts of a serial killer. Yet his handling of the various flashbacks and reveries is haphazard in the extreme, creating tension by sleight of hand (and an obsession with apples) rather than plot progression or sustained atmosphere. Buffeted about by the most implausible events, Bening captures something of a life gone haywire, but Robert Downey Jr is out of control as the maniac haunting her thoughts.

A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.