THE PERFECT HOST

This movie came out just recently and I think its a really underrated sort of wacky thriller.  David Hyde Pierce, who has really carved out an excellent niche character actor role for himself as a stuffy, WASP-Y rich gentleman with eccentricities.  Not only is he underutilized but like I said this movie really was one of the better ones I have seen of this genre this year.

A career criminal who is fleeing the police ends up in an upscale neighborhood with a wounded foot.  He knocks on doors until he manages to scam his way into DHP's abode.  But he really picked the wrong house.  It turns out, Pierce is severely mentally ill and disturbed, and involves the intruder in his extensive hallucinations and delusions (which range from amazingly disturbing to downright funny), which although very severe, he is able to keep the veneer of sanity to his neighbors and any outsiders through careful administration of medication.  Things take a surprise turn at the end where DHP's occupation and ulterior motives are revealed.  But some things are left for you to decide.  I thought this movie did an excellent job of mindfucking you and also giving you some stuff to chew on, and always entertaining.  DHP goes from debonair host and entertainer to psychotic deviant doing everything from showing the intruder films of him mutilating himself to him full on fucking a woman he believes to be there but isn't.  Why this got horrible ratings on Rotten Tomatoes I will never know.