Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Sanjeev Waters A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

betty dalton Wow. I think a comparison with "Fatal Atraction" is justified. You could call this thriller a female (lesbian) remake of that other stalker classic "Fatal Attraction" with Michael Douglas and Glen Close. Seen "Single White Female" several times over the years and this stalker thriller has stood the test of time. Even though I know exactly what is gonna happen, I am still thrilled and excited by this suspenseful stalker story.The story is about the lovely Bridget Fonda whose boyfriend had an affair. She breaks up with him, but cant pay the rent anymore. Places an add for a female roommate and there you have it: she unknowingly invited a mentally disturbed female roommate into her appartment. How disturbed this roommate is you will find out yourself... Acting is superb in this picture. Bridget Fonda is as lovely and innocent as ever. And Jennifer Jason Leigh depicts the mentally disturbed roommate perfectly. If you wanna get spooked and creeped out, then "Single White Female" is the perfect choice.

Predrag This is a tense thriller about an obsessive woman who becomes too enthralled in someone else's life, and even gets herself mixed up in lies, deceit and other bad activities, and the cycle of problems just gets more momentum. The basic plot is that Allison (Bridget Fonda) gets a roommate for her Manhattan apartment (has anyone ever seen an apartment this large in NYC??) after her skirt-crazy live-in lover Sam (played by "Wings" star Steven Weber) runs around on her. It's Headra "Hedy" (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to the rescue! This is one of my favorite suspense films. The setting is amazing, an old spooky apartment building but a gorgeous sparsely furnished apartment within. There really isn't a lot of violence in this movie, mainly just at the end. It's a good suspense movie, though, which builds and builds. The film is stylish, thanks to Luciano Tovoli (Suspiria) cinematography. Fonda and Leigh give strong performances in this movie. This is an underrated thriller, which is surprisingly clever movie.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

mattiasflgrtll6 There was nothing special on TV and my mom remembered this movie from her youth. For some reason she said "I'm not sure you will like this one..." but I called bulls'hit on that and gave the movie a shot. Wow. Much better than I could have imagined. The look of the movie is pretty cheap. It was made in the early nineties, but looks more like it's from the seventies. But that's not an issue. The story is your typical "first-friends-but-then-one-of-them-goes- nuts" plot, but the execution is marvelous. The suspense is built up very nicely. You feel like something is wrong, but they really don't rush with making it too clear to you why that is. You just feel like... something is odd... about Hedra Carlson. She seems to be fond of Allison in a way that borders on pretty goddamn obsessive. You can't get mad at her since he is nice, but at the same time, you don't really know whether she can be trusted or not. And the more she lives in Allison's apartment, the more suspicious she acts... What really made the movie what it is, is the acting. Bridget Fonda is great and Jennifer Jason Leigh is FANTASTIC. Must be one of her all-time best roles. God, did her character creep me out! She actually fits that role so well you forget it's only acting and not a real person. If that crazy bitch tried to be my inmate, I'd kick her out immediately! The movie's full of darkly grotesque scenes, both subtle and more evident ones. You know the typical scene where someone holds a knife against someone else's throat. Well, this was unlike every other of those scenes I've seen! Gross!!! Of course, it's not a masterpiece. There are some awkwardly out-of-place moments like Allison for no reason whatever watching Hedra masturbating (if it had been Hedra watching Allison instead, the scene would make more sense) and the ending, while pretty awesome, is still very predictable. But if you just want to watch a movie which chills you to the bone and you like a classic thriller, you will love this movie!

FlashCallahan So Bridget Fonda realises that her boyfriend with eighties hair is cheating on her, so she chucks him out, finds solace with her atypical camp eighties friend, and decides to get a 'roomie'.After lots of normal people fail her vetting for prefect room mate, she opts for Jennifer Jason Leigh, who is quiet, but listens, and listens, and walks around the apartment with her top off a lot of the time.But hey ho, the boyfriend comes back, so Leigh decides to watch Fatal Attraction, Unlawful Entry, Pacific Heights, and A Kiss Before Dying, in order to get ideas of getting a new apartment in a nice middle class area.Unfortunately she seems more interested in the bad guys, so opts for the psycho route.She starts to copy Fonda, dressing like her and becoming obsessed with her, and although Fonda knows something isn't right with her,she just goes with it.After all,chucking her out wouldn't make a good thriller would it?.In the late eighties and early nineties, these psycho films were everywhere. Some of them were groundbreaking (Fatal Attraction), some of them were a little bit exploitative (Basic Instinct), and some were just a load of old cobblers (Consenting Adults), but they had the same narrative structure, and they made there most, until the sub genre was bled dry.This is probably one of the last high profile psycho films we had, and despite the cast being perfectly perfunctory, you knew what was going to happen, the minute Leigh came into the scene.And this is the films problem, when you watch it, you'll have an awful sense of déjà Vu, because it was done so many times in such a short space of time.But it suffices, the ending is suitably creepy, and like all Hollywood thrillers from the early nineties, it's all about the big earrings and flashy jobs.I just wish she got threw into that washing machine come the end, the door was open for crying out loud!!...