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While the characters are shallow, everything else reeks of over-kill. The sex scenes are unnecessarily explicit, and Schrader revels in giving us the gamut on perversion from bestiality and incest to kink and sado-masochism. Schrader also isn't much interested in generating suspense. When Irena suddenly wanders through a surreal Cajun bayou, the audience is too confused to be worried. Occasionally Schrader resorts to the cheap device of startling the viewer--something appears suddenly or moves when it shouldn't. All in all, Cat People is as imaginative as coitus interruptus--and about as subtle...
...mists of the backlot. And there is Malcolm McDowell, quite persuasively feline, as her brother. In his human form he is something of a tomcat, which, of course, means he keeps turning into a big cat, with unfortunate results for the ladies he stalks. He keeps proposing incest as the only safe and sane way for cat people to have a little fun in their lives...
...because of legislatures' moral objections, but because the operation was so dangerous. By 1962, abortion in a hospital was generally considered safe, but states' Model Penal Codes permitted the operation only if the health of the mother or child was threatened, or in a case of rape or incest. Abortions were rewarded to women who were either ill or rich. Hospitals awarded abortions to those women with diseases that could harm development of the fetus, almost as if in compensation for their illness. Alternatively, women with time and money could fly to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico or other vacation spots...
...ostensible plot of Butterfly has to do with incest in the boondocks. Or rather the possibility of same, since things are finally worked so that no taboos are actually violated. But all of that is much too complicated and silly to go into with a straight face. The real suspense of the film derives from the troubles that Leading Lady Pia Zadora keeps having with her wardrobe. Sometimes it seems to have a will of its own and just starts sliding off her. On other occasions, when there is some feebly logical reason for her to shed it (taking...
Dunaway caroms onstage as a 14-year-old on roller skates and it may just be the larkiest moment of the poor girl's life. Orphaned all too soon, Frances Duffy is sent to live with a long-suffering aunt and an uncle (Bernie McInerney) bent on incest. When she strikes out on her own at 18, her luck with men is not conspicuously better. Eventually she weds a local Lothario (Terrance O'Quinn) who treats her to the bitter delights of being the wife of an alcoholic. Only her young son solaces her, and she counsels...