388 Arletta Avenue manages to use the terrorized-couple genre to provide a timely commentary on supposedly safe homes and distant wars.

The visuals in Randall Cole's paranoia chiller 388 Arletta Avenue evoke Michael Haneke's Cach and Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window in the way they make domesticity seem terrifying.

The aim is to give us the stalker's view and, most of the time, it works.

388 Arletta Avenue involves the modern terror of knowing a certain percentage of murder and violent crime's still committed by total strangers.