this movie is scarier than I remember.

"The Cable Guy" was absolutely not what I expected. You can use the term dark comedy to describe this but I didn't think a lot of it was that funny. Instead it was a creepy look at a stalker who morphs from friendless loner to possibly criminally disturbed and back to an even more sympathetic loner. He starts as a bother to Matthew Broderick's character and ends up being dangerously life threatening. Carrey is probably as good here as he's been in anything else. He plays his "Chip" lightly annoying at first and by the final act I was convinced he was a serial killer or something. There wasn't a lot that stood out in Ben Stiller's direction and the story was nothing amazing but this was a different application of Carrey's manic flailing delivery.

Jim Carrey is scary af. Funny and S C A R Y. I really liked it.

A very dark and disturbing film when you burrow right down into it, especially at the end of the film you really do feel for the cable guy. I Never got to see it when it came out, I recall the posters at one of my Blockbusters was very prominent at the time. it's worth a watch, especially if you like Jim Carrey's flavor of humor. Also features a few familiar young faces such as Jack Black and Owen Wilson to boot. Its kind of surreal having a cable guy talking about coax cables at one point, or the over the top hi-fi you see in the film, I can see that being a bit hard to resonate with today's audiences in sch a situation, but growing up around that time you kinda get it a bit more.

Jim Carrey is great in this one as the crazy cable guy. Lots of great supporting cast as well. I enjoy this one every time I watch it.