“Alice Fades Away” (** out of four) was a stilted melodrama set in a 1950’s New England village in which a woman (Ashley Shelton) with a troubled past stumbles onto an isolated farmhouse and is taken in by its idealistic residents (Paxton Singletary, Blanche Baker, and others) but a mysterious figure from her past re-emerges and threatens her and the village’s safety. Suspense and tension are minimal and story is too undernourished and underwritten to have much bite; only Christopher French’s moody cinematography has any resonance. Watch “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” (or even “Alice In Wonderland”) instead.