Word: succubus
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...wickedness, Dutchman makes no more sense than any other noisy blurb for black reaction. But as a dramatic shocker, it hits even harder on the screen than it did on the stage. The camera picks the onlooker up, sits him down hard only two seats away from that subway succubus, and then forces him to sit there with his palms sweating while the danger builds and builds and builds like the brain-stabbing squeal of steel wheels in a turning tunnel...
Lulu derives from the legendary folklore of the succubus, a female demon who was thought to have intercourse with sleeping men. Lulu destroys men wholesale. Early in Act I, Lulu's aging husband surprises her in the arms of an artist and would-be lover (Stanley Kolk), and dies of a heart attack. She marries the artist, but he, in turn, commits suicide when he discovers that Lulu is still in love with Schon, an abusive former lover. Schon tries to escape the Lulu hex with another woman, but Lulu later shoots him to death. And the round...
...girl came to live with them and eventually caught Sartre's attention. The odd menage a trots that resulted drove Simone frantic and offended their friends-not because it was irregular, but because they couldn't see what Sartre saw in the girl. Finally, to exorcise this succubus, Simone wrote her first successful novel, L'Invitee, which told how a young woman moved in on a sympathetic couple and so demoralized them that the wife eventually murdered her. Of this denouement. Authoress de Beauvoir says: "By killing Olga on paper I purged every twinge of resentment...
Terrible-eyed, a father rose up from his coffin one night last week, rushed after his beautiful young daughter and with bloodthirsty screams attempted to sink his fangs into her throat. Poor stiff. Some other vampire, succubus, lamia, boggart, barghest, uturuncu or related fee-faw-fum had already drunk the poor girl dry. The U.S., as summer moviegoers may have observed, is crawling with the bloody things. The horror industry is in the hideous throes of what may be the biggest necromantic revival since Count Dracula was a nipper...
...this incarnation is known as Dougal Douglas, or occasionally as Douglas Dougal, and he comes equipped with a crooked right shoulder, a clawlike right hand, and two small bumps on his head where a plastic surgeon has removed the horns. When he looks at people, he is "like a succubus whose mouth is its eyes." In the short span of this hilarious novel, Douglas the Devil coaxes into mortal sin not only Humphrey Place but most of the first citizens in the South London district of Peckham...