The Crush
The Crush

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The Crush

1993
Movie
89 min
English

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.

Insights

IMDb5.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes57%
Google Users69%
Director: Adam ShankmanGenres: Horror, Thriller, Romance

Plot Summary

A teenage girl becomes dangerously obsessed with an older man who moves in as her family's renter. When he rejects her advances, her fixation turns into a vengeful campaign of psychological torment and destruction. The situation escalates with escalating threats and dangerous confrontations, leaving the man desperate to escape her obsession.

Critical Reception

The Crush received mixed reviews from critics, with many criticizing its predictable plot and over-the-top execution. However, Alicia Silverstone's performance as the obsessive teen was often highlighted as a standout, even if the film itself was deemed a B-movie thriller.

What Reviewers Say

  • Praised for Alicia Silverstone's unsettling performance in her debut.

  • Criticized for a predictable, formulaic plot that borrows heavily from other thrillers.

  • Seen as a guilty pleasure B-movie with some tense moments.

Google audience: Audience reviews generally find the film to be an entertaining, albeit cheesy, thriller. Many enjoyed Alicia Silverstone's early performance and found the escalating obsession and revenge plot to be gripping for a low-budget film.

Awards & Accolades

None notable.

Fun Fact

This was Alicia Silverstone's feature film debut, and her performance earned her a MTV Movie Award nomination for Breakthrough Performance.

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GenerationofSwine

GenerationofSwin...

It came out in '93 when I was 13 and seriously got addicted to the moody mystery thrillers. I mean, I grew up in a house that fostered a love for pulp fiction novels, Sabitini, Leonard, Howard, Hammett, and these movies kind of fall right i...