Virginia Madsen in Lying in Wait

Oieeeee. Lying in Wait is an odd one. Just, odd. It’s from 2001 and I believe was straight to video and DVD on release.

Babee Gordon (Thomas Newton) is going out his life pretty much keeping himself to himself, just being a bachelor doing bachelor things. One day he gets new neighbours, Keith and Vera Miller (Rutger Hauer and Virginia Madsen respectively).
He slowly gets drawn into a friendship with them, impressed by Keith and his way with the ladies, but he can’t help but develop feelings of his own for a lady, Vera (I mean, who wouldn’t?).

One night after a party Vera is driving them home, but ends up crashing the car, badly. She escapes with minor injuries but Keith ends up with severe brain damage which debilitates him, rendering him unable to speak and confined to a wheel chair.

From there strange things start happening, deaths and the like, that nobody can really explain, and it all gets rather, weird.
It’s another film that I’m scared of spoiling too much if you haven’t seen it so I don’t want to get into details. It wouldn’t take much for you to guess if I said too much.

So, would I recommend you watch it? Yeah. Ish. It’s not a brilliant film, but if you’re looking for an excuse to watch a Virginia Madsen film you’ve not seen then you can probably do a lot worse than this one to be honest. But, be warned that it can be odd.
It’s low budget for sure, but both Rutger Hauer and Virginia Madsen put in fine performances here, probably better than the film actually deserves which raises it up another notch. I’m not a massive fan of Mr Hauer for the most part, but he definitely has his place in Hollywood and this is one of them.