Crush (1993) [VHS]

Crush (1993) [VHS]
by Alan Shapiro

Crush (1993) [VHS]

List Price: ~~$9.98~~
Our Price: $4.07
You Save: $5.91 (59%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: VHS Video
See more movie releases

Buy this VHS video movie at online store in your country
Canada

Product details

Actor: Alicia Silverstone, Amber Benson, Cary Elwes, Jennifer Rubin, Kurtwood Smith
Director: Alan Shapiro
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 89 minutes
Release Date: 1995-04-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Crush (1993) [VHS]

Movie Review: "The Making of a Teenage Psycho"
Summary: 5 Stars

"The Crush" is not a fantastic movie; it is a good movie that you can watch on a Friday night if you haven't anything else to watch. If your a fan of films that feature deranged women boardering on the line of insanity "The Crush" is for you. Alicia Silverstone plays a 14 year old obsessed by an older man, played by British cutie Cary Elwes (famous for his role in the first "Saw" film). When the older man doesn't return the same feelings that the young girl inhabits for him, all hell breaks out for him and those around him including his girlfriend. "The Crush" is very similar in theme to movies like "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle", "Misery", and "Fatal Attraction", that feature beautiful women wanting to wreak vengence on those around them for one reason or another. I enjoyed the film since I love female villin films. For Cary Elwes fans there's a hot shower scene featuring his back side as well. The DVD of the movie is pretty much barebones, but the film is in widescreen, subtitles are in English, French, and Spanish, and there are cast filmographies.

Movie Review: A formula thriller that didn't really work
Summary: 2 Stars

Characters were stereotypes, situations were contrived unrealistically to serve the plot. There was enough mystery to pull me all of the way through the story, but in the end it really did rang flat.

Movie Review: one of the very few movies I'm choosing to keep my vhs copy of
Summary: 3 Stars

This DVD is a huge disappointment. It may seem nit-picky to some people, but the fact that the lead female character's name was changed from Darian on the VHS version of the movie to Adrian on the DVD really really bugged me. I saw absolutely no point in this change, and it made me decide that I would just keep this particular movie on VHS so that I could watch it as I remember it. 1 star for the DVD and 4 stars for the actual movie.

Movie Review: "I LOVE you Nick and you love me!!!"
Summary: 4 Stars

This was a favorite movie of mine when I was in middle/high school. I saw it in a bargain bin last Christmas season, and picked it up. It wasn't as thrilling as I remembered, but it was still pretty good. Beautiful, brillant, rich, charming, and a psychopath sets her eyes on the renter of her parents guest home. She's one that never hears the world no. Okay, some of the plot, especially at the end is really far fetched, but besides that, it's a movie I can still enjoy.

Movie Review: Your Sides Will Ache From Laughing At This Unintentionally Hilarious FATAL ATTRACTION Wannabe!
Summary: 5 Stars

Don't tell us they don't make Bad Movies like they used to. The Crush, a 1993 gigglefest about a teen psycho-nymphet who makes life a living hell for the twice-her-age writer who's renting out her parents' guest house, is a Bad Movie gem. Alicia Silverstone plays this Lolita-ish minx--think Poison Ivy in a Wonderbra--who one second is displaying herself nude to renter Cary Elwes and the next is trying to murder his photographer girlfriend, Jennifer Rubin, by shoving swarms of buzzing wasps into a darkroom's ventilation system. We'd guess that Silverstone, who rapidly exhausts her repertoire of three expressions (coy, steamy, wacko), honed her acting licks studying the oeuvre of Cybill Shepherd. When she chirps lines at Rubin like, "Don"t worry, Amy, some guys really like girls with small breasts," we can only hope for Silverstone's sake that some guys like girls with teensy talent. And we'd guess that Elwes, who rapidly exhausts his repertoire of one expression (self-enchanted), honed his acting licks by studying the oeuvre of Ryan O'Neal. Just like O'Neal in What's Up, Doc?--but that movie was intended as a comedy--Elwes hopes to pass himself off as an intellectual by donning specs. Indeed, when Silverstone finds him chomping on a cigar while writing, he explains, preposterously, "Helps me think."

But it's in its crackpot plotting and kamikaze ripoffs of other moviemakers that The Crush attains Bad Movie nirvana. When Elwes can't hack a Pique magazine assignment about a Michael Milkenesque arbitrager, 14-year-old Silverstone secretly rewrites his story so brilliantly that it becomes a career-maker for him. Later, explaining her actions, Silverstone--who sounds to us like she's learned every word of her dialogue phonetically--says, "Your split infinitives put such stress on the adverbs."

For plot reasons, Elwes's character just up and becomes stupid, which the actor does manage to convey. Long after Silverstone has etched a rather nasty word onto the hood of his car, made a room into a candle-lit shrine to him and phoned him to say, "Guess what? Got my period. Definitely not pregnant," you'll be screaming aloud, "Ever think of moving, Cary?" Of course, if he did, we wouldn't get to savor such prize moments as Silverstone cooing, "Ever do a virgin?" Or the scene in which the heroine's rich daddy, wielding a pair of pliers, tells Elwes what he plans to do to the horny guys his little girl will soon attract: "Some friggin' kid'll be standin' there with his hard-on stickin' out of his pants," he says. "Hope I don't go breakin' it off!" By the time Silverstone gets around to the most implausible plot twist of all--she accuses Elwes of raping her and people actually believe her--you'll be breaking in half with hilarity.

With two stars incapable of having a crush on anyone but their mirrors, we're afraid that writer-director Alan Shapiro's crush on Alfred Hitchcock is the only crush on display: Silverstone freaks out in full riding gear, like Tippi Hedren in Marnie; when Rubin fights off those wasps, it's shot like the finale of The Birds; then, falling, she grabs a curtain, like Janet Leigh in the Psycho shower. In the absurd climax, Elwes fights for his life on a twirling carousel straight out of Strangers on a Train, only this one's in an attic (don't ask).

Our favorite moment, though, is an original. Elwes, disturbed from his sleep by chopping noises and angry screams, investigates to find a sweaty, crazily wide-eyed Silverstone hacking away at lemons. He asks what she's doing and she hisses, "Making lemonade. Want some?" When you're ready for a long cool drink of laughter, buy The Crush.

Write your own review

Drama Video

Video Genres

Movies most talked about in Drama Video

Come to the Stable [VHS]
20th Century Fox; Release date: 1995-03-15; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $32.45

Student Prince (1954) [VHS]
MGM (Warner); Release date: 1992-12-11; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $27.75

Shadowlands (1993) [VHS]
Hbo Home Video; Release date: 1995-01-31; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $20.00

Back Street [VHS]
Universal Studios; Release date: 1993-02-03; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $44.50

Gone with the Wind [VHS]
MGM; MGM (Video & DVD); Release date: 1998-10-27; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $3.68
Price in other shops: ~~$8.98~~

Sarah Plain And Tall [VHS]
Republic Pictures; Release date: 1995-03-21; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $8.65
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Scarlett (Special Collector's Editon) [VHS]
Hallmark; Release date: 1997-01-14; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $23.99

Fantasia (Walt Disney's Masterpiece) [VHS]
Walt Disney Home Video; Release date: 1992-09-15; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $4.84
Price in other shops: ~~$24.99~~

Christmas Box [VHS]
Hallmark; Release date: 1998-09-15; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $18.87

A Town Like Alice [VHS]
Starmaker Entertainment; Release date: 1992-07-30; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $28.75

Similar Video, DVDs, Audio CDs

Single White Female
Sony; Release date: 1998-02-24; DVD
Best price: $5.17
Price in other shops: ~~$14.94~~

Excess Baggage
Sony; Release date: 1998-02-04; DVD
Best price: $3.81
Price in other shops: ~~$9.95~~

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Disney; Release date: 1998-12-08; DVD
Best price: $5.16
Price in other shops: ~~$14.99~~

Swimfan
TCFHE; Release date: 2003-03-11; DVD
Best price: $3.33
Price in other shops: ~~$9.98~~

Silence Becomes You
Release date: 2005-12-13; DVD
Best price: $4.50
Price in other shops: ~~$9.98~~

Hideaway
Sony; Release date: 2000-10-03; DVD
Best price: $3.65
Price in other shops: ~~$9.95~~

Fear
Universal Studios; Release date: 1998-10-27; DVD
Best price: $3.07
Price in other shops: ~~$9.99~~

Poison Ivy
Warner Brothers; Release date: 1999-11-02; DVD
Best price: $3.44
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

True Crime
Lions Gate; Release date: 1999-05-25; DVD
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops: ~~$9.98~~

The Babysitter
Republic Pictures; Release date: 2002-03-26; DVD
Best price: $8.67
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~