Skeletons spilling out of the closet, we ascertain that Ben knew/knows the spooky woman. Before he met Jane the handsome devil was mixed up romantically with a Japanese woman named Megumi (Megumi Okina), a translator who accompanied him on fashion shoots. Jittery flashbacks reveal that the diminutive woman was obsessive and stalked Ben with Fatal Attraction fervor. To put a stop to the madness, Ben explains to Jane, he abruptly ended the relationship. Define "ended". Can you use it in a sentence? The lunatic concubine must be following him again — reputedly stepping up the menacing intensity by allowing herself to be run over by cars. For American auds, it’s a haunting of convenience in that Megumi is bilingual. She issues her esoteric communiqués in English, rather than via less than frightful subtitles.
The fanfare intensifies when a couple of Ben’s close friends Adam (John Hensley) and Bruno (David Denman) wake up dead. Jane and Ben don’t know it yet. We do. It’s that annoying ex-sweetheart’s doing. It’s way too late for Hallmark to patch things up now. But why would Megumi grease the wheels for their gruesome deaths while Ben is still collecting deteriorating snapshots? Dead wait. The spurned suitor must have a damn good reason for coming back from daisies pushing and the increasingly suspicious Jane aims to find out what it is. That’s grrrl—supernatural—power.
Pressured to come clean by his fuming bride, Ben admits in a fit of egomaniacal finger pointing that he might have been involved in her demise. He was there — somebody had to take pictures to commemorate the festivities — but he never laid a hand on her. With Jane having figured out that the man of her dreams is the reason for her nightmares she leaves in a disgusted rage. A solo Ben is left to battle the angry ex alone hando-dzuki-hando. My money’s on the girl, if not the price of admission.
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