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...Except these people didn't seem to want to question their responses. They seemed like the leering, drooling maniacs in the asylum scene of Brian Depalma's Dressed to Kill, applauding the strangulation and partial stripping of a nurse. The image is a sardonic joke and undoubtedly meant to mirror the audience, but thousands of humorless nurses and women are picketing the film across the country, claiming it presents violence against women as erotic. They ought to be out marching against Humanoids from the Deep instead of wasting their time on a passable thriller with a sense of humor...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Perhaps these movies are also popular because they shrewdly exploit the narcissism of the past decade: the increasingly limited situations, centering on attractive people with very little on their minds; the emphasis on disfigurement as well as death (the girl preening before a mirror, making herself sexy, only to receive an axe in her face.) The Killers and monsters are as vacuously preoccupied with sex and appearances as their victims, and equally represent the "Me Decade...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...snarls Kim Novak, elaborately gowned as Queen Elizabeth I. "Jason," Taylor continues, violet eyes flashing, "would you put the Virgin Queen back in her cage?" A feud on the set between two aging prima donnas? Yes and no. The sniping is all in the script for The Mirror Crack 'd, a film based on a 1962 mystery novel by the late Agatha Christie. The two '50s movie queens portray two '50s movie queens who are cast, to their mutual misery, in the same motion picture. Though not intimate in their real-life heyday -"We knew each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 15, 1980 | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...Except these people didn't seem to want to question their responses. They seemed like the leering, drooling maniacs in the asylum scene of Brian Depalma's Dressed to Kill, applauding the strangulation and partial stripping of a nurse. The image is a sardonic joke and undoubtedly meant to mirror the audience, but thousands of humorless nurses and women are picketing the film across the country, claiming it presents violence against women as erotic. They ought to be out marching against Humanoids from the Deep instead of wasting their time on a passable thriller with a sense of humor...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

Perhaps these movies are also popular because they shrewdly exploit the narcissism of the past decade: the increasingly limited situations, centering on attractive people with very little on their minds; the emphasis on disfigurement as well as death (the girl preening before a mirror, making herself sexy, only to receive an axe in her face.) The Killers and monsters are as vacuously preoccupied with sex and appearances as their victims, and equally represent the "Me Decade...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

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