An intimate look into the lives of two stalkers of 80s teen pop one-hit-wonder Tiffany, Sean Donnelly's I Think We're Alone Now is absolutely disturbing, wince-inducing trainwreck viewing of the highest order.
Screened as part of NZIFF 2008
I Think We're Alone Now 2007
An intimate look into the lives of two stalkers of 80s teen pop one-hit-wonder Tiffany, Sean Donnelly's I Think We're Alone Now is absolutely disturbing, wince-inducing trainwreck viewing of the highest order. These are characters so jaw-droppingly singular no scriptwriter could ever dream them up: Jeff Deane Turner, a middle-aged time travel and radionics enthusiast who believes he can communicate telepathically with Tiffany through a machine he's created; Kelly McCormick, an intersexed fitness freak who's convinced they are destined to be together no matter what happens ("I love her down to the bone marrow!"). More than a shock sensationalist exposé about weirdo stalkers, the doco aims deeper. It's equally a poignant and unsettling study of two social misfits, grappling with mental illness and loneliness, who pose less harm to the object of their obsession than they do to themselves. — AY