Your best friend's back after ten years — but who the hell is she really?
Elizabeth's friend Hannah has come to visit. The two have not seen one another for ten years and have a lot of catching up to do. So imagine Elizabeth's surprise when she overhears Hannah speaking in hushed tones about her death of someone named Zelda. Elizabeth's imagination takes over. In her mind, Hannah is now Zelda, a stripper in New Orleans, or a wild lesbian in a tryst with a jealous club owner, or anything she dreams her to be. And what's even stranger than the fantasy...is the reality.
Production
New Orleans location work that screams direct-to-video budget
Acting
Melissa Hill's wide-eyed mania sells the paranoid fantasy
Director
Kelly Holland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Kelly Holland was primarily a prolific adult film editor; this was a rare mainstream-adjacent attempt.
Smokescreen arrived at the tail end of the erotic thriller boom, when direct-to-video titles were scrambling to replicate Basic Instinct's success with approximately 3% of the budget.
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