Word: maleficent
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Thus it is with the gifted Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg. Images of corporal corruption -- of malefic birth and voracious organs -- stalk his They Came from Within, Rabid, The Brood, Scanners and Videodrome. Heads explode, and monsters issue from the wombs of women. In Cronenberg's masterwork, The Fly, one man...
Such fanciful creatures are diversions as a lonely teenager (Jennifer Connelly) wanders the labyrinth in search of the castle where a malefic king (David Bowie) has detained her year-old brother. The maze, of course, is adolescence, and its dark lord is Bowie, the charismatic Kabuki sorcerer who offers his...
Only pro wrestling, as perpetrated by Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation, could provide such a uniquely 1980s fusion of chic and sleaze. WrestleMania's guest referee is Muhammad Ali; the guest ring announcer is Battlin' Billy Martin; the guest timekeeper, manipulating a tiny silver bell that might have come...
Supergirl is Kara (Helen Slater), Superman's younger cousin and a fellow émigré from Krypton, who grows up in Midvale, U.S.A., as Linda Lee. In her preppie uniform she is an ordinary schoolgirl, but put her in red cape and tights and she is revealed as California...
Deep in the entrails of a Rumanian castle, a malefic beast has been stirring for a millennium. Now it is 1941, and a platoon of Nazis have let the evil genie out of his battlements. On the side of Good, sort of, are a frail Jewish scholar (the great English...