Alice (Alexis Kendra), a love-addicted beauty, befriends Shelly (Rachel Alig), a shabby and badly burned recluse. It’s a comparable take off from Single White Female, although this goes darker. WAY darker.

The Cleaning Lady is a disturbing and suspenseful story of obsession in various forms. Alice is extremely pretty and somewhat materialistic with a good heart…a heart which also seems to be focused on her married lover, Michael (Stelio Savante). She spends her time focused on her home business (cosmetology), working out, and attending group therapy sessions in order to break free from all negative situations that will entangle her into romantic hardships.

Shelly couldn’t be further on the life spectrum from Alice. Badly burned in an “accident” when she was a child, Shelly stays in the shadows with her softly spoken answers, straggly hair and beaten up wardrobe. She is a voyeur with an evil agenda that hits Alice at an unsuspected jump scare moment.

After Alice hires Shelly to be her cleaning lady, she falls upon her accessibility to become fast friends, primarily to avoid reconnecting with Michael. Opening up to Shelly regarding her relationship status, Shelly calmly provides her disdain for being a potential homewrecker and secretly plots how to purify Alice’s world. With “good” intentions, Shelly slowly steps over the friendship boundaries by overstaying her welcome and even appearing at night to…well…just watch and see what depravity she musters up!

The intensity of Shelly’s fixation climaxes into a horrific exhibition of “What Would You Do” before the rest of her maniacal plans follow in extreme carnage.

The Cleaning Lady adds merit through flashbacks to Shelly’s shocking childhood and what built up this severe rage for revenge through an unforgiveable upbringing.

Every performance is on point, but the MVP is clearly Rachel Alig as The Cleaning Lady who draws the audience in to her unconformable stance without even muttering a word.  Definitely one to watch!