Word: sicko
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...this remake of the 1962 sicko classic based on John D. MacDonald's novel The Executioners, the plot contours are the same: a sleazy ex-con, Max Cady, comes to a small Southern town to take his slow revenge on a lawyer who sent him to jail, and on the lawyer's vulnerable family. The basic ethical tangle remains as well: How can a good liberal fight a bad man who at first may do nothing but lurk? But now everything else is more intense, more complex. From the film's first images -- weird creatures shimmering just below sea level...
...nice young Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) tells his nice young friend Sandy (Laura Dern). Well, yes. Walking through the woods of peaceful Lumberton, Jeffrey found a severed human ear crawling with ants. The ear belonged to a man who, with his son, had been kidnaped by Frank (Dennis Hopper), a sicko on a helium high. Frank was blackmailing the man's wife Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini), and hiding in Dorothy's closet, Jeffrey watched Frank work his awful sexual will on her. When Dorothy discovered Jeffrey, she took him to bed. "Hurt me," she said. "No, I want to help...
Everyone had an emphatic opinion about the new game. Virtually all women and quite a few men pronounced it sicko or macho-childish, or both. Almost all the remaining men, including a considerable number who were not gun fondlers, wanted to try it. After press reports of the first game, held in New Hampshire last summer, appeared, strangers began calling up Gaines and his friends to ask where they could play. After some early problems with insurance ("You want liability coverage for what?), they began selling kits at $145 each, consisting of the Nel-Spot, a holster, a supply...
...times she can be more a turn-off than a turn-on. The meticulous arrangement of every single hair on her head is enough to drive you crazy. In the movie's opening moments, after she swims naked for what seems like none-long enough for the neighborhood sicko to spend several roils of film perusing her body-she pauses at the side of the pool with an inquisitive look at her constant male companion. "I like looking at you," he says. And the sultry reply: "I like being looked...