6 “Original” Films You Didn’t Realise Were Actually Remakes
5. Swimfan
Things wrong with modern movies # 34, 762: teensploitation rip-offs of popular hits. Swimfan is slickly-made and technically well-crafted, but its all in the service of a Bugsy Malone version of Fatal Attraction, whose target audience was born the year Adrian Lynnes movie came out.
In keeping with the original, The Blonde is cunning-but-psychotic, The Brunette is wholesome-but-bland and The Hunky Guy gets caught up in a number of unintentionally hilarious situations. When Ben (Jesse Bradford) meets new girl Madison (Erika Christensen), who cant swim, he offers to teach her and you know what happens when two people are wet and nearly naked. Needless to say, it aint Baptist business.
Quicker than you can say teenage bunny boiler, Madison starts stalking him, sending him naked pictures of herself and trying to run his girlfriend off the road. Our hero deals with this in a very peculiar manner: by dressing up as Madisons comatose ex-boyfriend (dont ask), he gets her to confess to being a teenage psycho on camera.