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Last week scary actress Rose McGowan got engaged to scary musician Marilyn Manson. Will the union last...
...Reagan High's coolest coeds dies swallowing a candy jawbreaker. To cover up this gaffe, bitch-on-heels Courtney (Rose McGowan, below, right) tries turning a geekette who knows about the death (Judy Evans Greer) into a fox goddess. A teen twist on the old Frankenstein-Pygmalion plot is as familiar as last week, when it was called She's All That. (And a decade ago, it was the evil-teen classic Heathers.) Writer-director Stein flirts with black humor but, alas, never goes all the way. As for McGowan, she has the buxom wantoness and smartly cruel mouth...
...McGowan, Rebecca...
...girls decide to return her to her bed and make it look like she has been raped. In the process, the school outcast Fern Mayo (newcomer Judy Evans Greer) stops by Liz's house and unwittingly overhears the girls discussing the murder. But the unflappable Courtney Shayne (Rose McGowan) makes Fern a deal she can't refuse: instant popularity in return for her silence. Thus Courtney creates the vivacious "Vylette" as Fern's alter-ego, and her homely self is cast aside...
...moments like that are few and far between,mostly because of the absolutely chilling andmesmerizing performance by McGowan. She playsCourtney as a classic bitch, the type of girl notbothered by anybody or anything. Neither pressurefrom the police about the murder (Pam Grier as afirst-rate tough cop), nor having sex with MarilynManson (McGowans' real life boyfriend, thoughfrighteningly sans makeup in the movie) in Liz'sbed while her corpse stagnates underneath it,unnerves...