The Surrogate (1984)
Frank and Lee have marital problems: he’s been impotent for 18 months, she alternates between sympathy and criticism. His temper gets the best of him, so he’s seeing a psychotherapist who finds the anger and the impotence related. She recommends that Frank and Lee hire a mysterious European woman to lead them through fantasies intended to unlock passion and help them heal. At the same time this is going on, the police are investigating a series of stabbings: as corpses pile up, we wonder if Frank’s temper may be behind this; or perhaps it’s Eric, a cross-dressing neighbor and friend of Lee’s; it may even be the European woman, who keeps popping up with new fantasies.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Director: Don Carmody
Actors: Art Hindle, Barbara Law, Carole Laure, Gary Reineke, Jackie Burroughs, Jim Bailey, Marilyn Lightstone, Michael Ironside, Shannon Tweed, Vlasta Vrána