So I was out eating Mexican food with my friend Charlie today, and as we discussed horror movies, I suddenly realized that there are a lot of movies like All About Eve made about women who want to be another woman they idolize, until they slowly replace them in their lives.

So the movies I came up with off the top of my head (based on memory as well as articles I've read recently and discussions):

• All About Eve


• Single White Female (poor Bridget Fonda's cat)


• The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (the name Rebecca De Mornay will always remind me of the black lady on Seinfeld who doesn't want Elaine to give the homeless muffin stumps)


• Desperately Seeking Susan ("Rosanna Arquette doesn't look a thing like Madonna/ And you'd have to be a moron to desperately seek either one" --Mary Prankster, Breakfast)


• Friends 'Til The End (it's on VH1 all the time and stars Shannen Doherty: and she sings)


• Single White Female 2: The Psycho (I haven't actually seen it, but I assume it's the same premise as the first one)


• Showgirls (full frontal Jessie Spano, but does have an All About Eve premise)


• Swimfan, Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Misery (these feel cheat-y because they're mostly featuring women obsessed with a man, as opposed to being obsessed about a woman and trying to replace her)
  Movies Where Men Obsess Over Each Other:


• The Hitcher (Rutger Hauer is a hitchhiker who terrorizes the main character)


• The Duel (Steven Spielberg's first "movie" about a guy driving along and a semi-truck driver who then terrorizes him)


• The Talented Mr. Ripley (the previous two movies seem to be missing the mark, but this movie seems to be more in line with a man idolizing another man so completely that he wants to become him)

So I want help. I want to know what movies should be added to the list.

Labels: horror, men, movies, women

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