But I never felt any real connection between the two due to the lack of shared characters. If the two were better integrated, Alter Ego could have worked, seeing things happen in contrast to how the investigators interpret the evidence and wondering if they’ll come to the right conclusion. And we see him wandering around questioning the film’s second cast of characters such as Schaeffer’s girlfriend Paula (Deborah Twiss, A Gun for Jennifer, A Wrestling Christmas Miracle) and his agent (Harry Chambarry, The Sun Is Also a Star, Let Me Down Hard). We have an idea of how it all turns out because we know what DiBiasse is there to investigate. Mostly it means listening to him and the guard talk. In one of Alter Ego’s timelines, we see Schaeffer as he waits for his rendezvous with destiny. And at only about an hour’s worth of story, the rest of the film’s seventy-eight-minute runtime is the credits, it feels short and lacking substance for a feature.
Despite the film’s plot, nobody from Roberts’ scenes interacts with anyone from Walsh’s timeline. Or possibly a short film that had footage of Eric Roberts added to it and sold as a feature. Watching Alter Ego I quickly got the feeling that it was made up of two different films spliced together. The security guard (Steve Stanulis, Hinsdale House, Clinton Road) who arrives at his house however is less than convinced by his story that Ivan Tanner, a serial killer he created, is out to get him before he can finish the novel that kills him off.
In fact, he’s sure he’ll die before the night is over if he’s left alone. Schaeffer is adamant that his life is in danger. And the site is a familiar one, the home of best-selling author Alan Schaeffer (Dylan Walsh, Congo, The Stepfather). The most recent example, Alter Ego from writer/director Ezio Massa (2/11: Day of the Dead, 5 A.M.) may not help its chances though.ĭetective DiBiasse (Eric Roberts, Skin Traffik, Megaboa) arrives on the scene of what is to be his last case along with the rookie he’s been training (Rodrigo Guirao Díaz, Until You Untie Me). And it will probably be around long after as well. A writer stalked by their own creation was a popular theme in films like Olver Stone’s Seizure (aka Queen of Evil), even before Stephen King’s bestseller The Dark Half.
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