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I've worked for Mattel, Marvel Comics, and JAKKS PACIFIC in the past and now am designing a line of dolls called the Hottiez.
Reviews
She Devil (1957)
I can't believe it only took 20 years for me to find this movie again!
I was COMPLETELY mesmerized by this film because I loved the concept of this woman who was in essence given everything a human being would need to survive and still gave into her baser instincts and became even more of a monster than before.
I believe that she started out as a petty criminal before they gave her the operation, so it was already in her to be this way already so I don't think they could have blamed it on the injection unless there was someone else to compare her progress with or a lab animal with similar characteristics- like a primate.
This added a much needed balance to Whitley Streib's novel "The Hunger", as the supernatural condition was given biological rules and parameters.
I simply adored the scenes where she would go for a Sunday drive with her rich new husband, and then run them both off a cliff in the convertible, dust herself off and walk home to plot her next marriage.
Genius!
I have kind of a photographic memory and only saw the film only once (30 years ago) when I was six, but those scenes stood out for me- (almost as the one in the very beginning of the film where she runs into a dressing room-being pursued by the police as a brunette, changes into the clothing hanging in the room, and walks out as a platinum blonde as all the cops are drooling all over her!!
It was a great lesson to me as a child that people only look at the surface and are always prone to fall victim to those whom their prejudices judge as being more desirable than themselves!
I wouldn't have touched her with a ten foot pole just cause her saccharine sweet personality barely concealed her contempt for humanity.
A LOVELY film which I hope someone finally decides to remake with a more scientific base (while keeping the humor!)
-Skittles!
The Addiction (1995)
Cool!
This movie was even scarier for me since I spent 2/3 of my life in New York City and all the settings were in my family's neighborhood!
The acting was first rate, as was the storyline and cinematography, but all the philosophical dissertations annoyed the HELL out of me because it reminded me of some of the intellectual snobs I went to school with who had lower IQ's than my cat.
Upon reading the previous review, it just occurred to me that all the snobbery made perfect sense.
The character was probably in shock for several weeks. In HER mind, a vampire wouldn't resist his or her impulses they would just become feral. As such, to her, this constant internal dialogue of trying to figure out whether or not her addictions are psychological or supernatural somehow proves her normalcy (at least in her universe).
Christopher Walken was GENIUS and so convincing that I never EVER want to meet him in person! His explanation of his adaptation to his vampirism made it seem so normal (it REALLY felt like he was giving the audience a confession under the guise of acting) that you got the sense that he WASN'T acting!
I have to say that the graduation scene is one of the single most disturbing things that I have ever seen in my life! I saw it coming, but never really acknowledged before seeing this, that horror movies are realistic because all the writers/directors have to do is open up the local newspaper to see what a real monster is!