He Knows You're Alone (2009 Film)

He Knows You're Alone is the 2009 spoof (and fake) remake of the 1980 slasher movie. The movie was produced by New World Pictures, and is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was directed by Paul Verhoven and written by Abel Ferrara.

Plot
One night, there were two female viewers, Marybeth & Miranda Miller, watching "Urban Legend" (1998) in theaters. One's scared and the other isn't. When all of a sudden, a night stalker named Ray Carlton, who snuck in destroyed Miranda, leaving Marybeth alone. Marybeth feels all alone. The next night, he escaped from New Orleans and went to San Francisco, so he sees new batch of victims, especially the teenagers, such as Kate, Gage, Susan, Ed, Jeremy, George, Brittany and Saffron. A policeman named Frank, who cancels the teens' party, because of the curfew, but instead, the teens decide to party in the house. Kate, Susan, Brittany & Saffron "turn invisible". Unfortunately, Ray Carlton, cuts off the electricity, so the teens decide to escape. But Ray Carlton kidnaps Kate, takes her to the abandoned lighthouse. Hogties her. And will threaten to kill Kate, if she escapes or calls for help. Now, Ray Carlton leaves Kate alone, and decides to kill the teens.

Ray Carlton finds Susan, hiding in a farm...all alone, screaming for help, but Ray Carlton kills Susan. Ed hides in the boys' rest area, locking the door, sitting in the toilet, with lid closed. All of a sudden, Ray Carlton breaks down the bathroom door and lock, killing Ed. Ray Carlton goes to the motel, where Jeremy & Brittany fall in love, being invisible, when suddenly, Ray Carlton breaks down the locked door, and ruined the romantic night, Jeremy was killed by Ray Carlton with a sword, but Brittany escapes while being invisible, and hides into the garbage dumpster. Ray Carlton knows she's alone, hiding in the garbage dumpster, stole the dumpster truck, throw Brittany and all the garbage into the truck, so Ray Carlton presses the button to crush Brittany to death, along with the garbage trashes. George and Gage went to the abandoned lighthouse. Gage went upstairs, looking for Kate, only for George to be killed by Ray Carlton.

Now Gage found Kate, untied her, but Ray Carlton can't let them leave. However, policeman Frank shot and killed Ray Carlton, and rescued Gage and Kate from the lighthouse. And so, Gage and Kate decide to get married.

Cast

 * Elisha Cuthbert as Kate
 * Danny Masterson as Gage
 * Chantal Strand as Susan
 * Courtland Mead as Ed
 * Margot Robbie as Brittany
 * Tom Hanks as Frank (Policeman)
 * Jonathan Breck as Ray Carlton (Night Stalker)
 * Hanna Hall as Saffron
 * Brittany Paige Bouck as Marybeth Miller
 * Caitlin Wachs as Miranda Miller
 * Andrew Garfield as Jeremy
 * Sebastian Stan as George

Post Production
Skywalker Sound

Soundtrack

 * "He Knows You're Alone" Musical Theme by Alexander Peskanov‎ & Mark Peskanov
 * "Mr. Crowley" performed by Ozzy Osbourne
 * "Crazy Train" performed by Ozzy Osbourne
 * "Crawling" performed by Linkin Park
 * "Numb" performed by Linkin Park
 * "In The End" performed by Linkin Park
 * "Without You" performed by Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle

Trivia

 * The fictional night stalker, Ray Carlton, is based on real-life night stalker named Richard Ramirez, who destroyed 14 of his victims from 1984–85, until he eventually caught by the police and will be sentenced to death, until he died of complications from B-cell lymphoma in 2013.
 * Also Original Night Stalker (aka East Area "Love Killer") who began his crime spree in California in 1976, and shared a similar moniker to the public and Delroy Easton Grant, a serial "love killer" who operated in London during the 1990s and 2000s, sometimes referred to by the British media as the "Night Stalker".
 * Ray Carlton, the fictional killer, is also from the original classic, "He Knows You're Alone" (1980).

Rating
This movie is originally rated NC-17 (now X-18) by Motion Picture Association - America for high impact sadistic violence (including stabbings, mutilation, dismemberments and cannibalism scenes), strong gory images, strong language, strong sexual nature and full frontal nudity (of female characters). But unless NC17-rated version is the uncut version, everything needs to editing by cutting off in order for this movie to be R-Rated.

Release
He Knows You're Alone (remake) has released in theaters in USA on February 13, 2009 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.