The movie’s premise is said by screenwriter Larry Cohen (himself no slouch in the gripping-movie department, having directed It’s Alive! and God Told Me To) to be a project that Hitchcock had long desired to develop.
It's written by the king of exploitation films Larry Cohen ("God Told Me To"/"Q") and directed by the ham-fisted Joel Schumacher ("Batman Forever"/"Flatliners").
The narrative is acted out in such a superficial and awkward way, that a sober viewer might be driven to drink and a viewer with cinema smarts and common sense might split from the theater to go home and watch instead the superb 1976 missing person horror pic of Larry Cohen’s “God Told Me To.”