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Razor Blade Smile
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by Unapix / a-Pix Ent.
Sales Rank: 90129
Price: $9.98
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The real truth about their mysterious adversary--a vampire--would "rip your mind's fragile hinges," the death's-head CEO of a secret society (Christopher Adamson) warns a human henchman. Your mind's fragile hinges have little to fear from this vampire-action-sexploitation hybrid. Director-writer-editor Jake West desperately tricks up his one-man opus in tech glam: sexpot Lilith Silver evolves from 19th-century vampire victim to modern-day hitwoman in black-and-white, color, freeze-frame, fast and slow motion, cartoon FX, overblown Freudian dreams. <p> There <I>are</I> moments: in the James Bond-style credit sequence, Lilith's fanged mouth yawns wide, disgorging a veritable blizzard of razor blades. And in the black-and-white prelude, West's camera looks down on his voluptuous vampire, sprawled on a bed, the only color the scarlet drenching her dress, bloodying her mouth. But "artsy" razzle-dazzle can't distract from <I>Razor Blade Smile</I>'s overall failure to arouse horror, lust, humor, or any other redeeming response. First-timer Eileen Daley makes Lilith so <I>soignee</I> and hip it hurts; her femme fatale's couture runs to multizippered, skintight black leather, shades, fur hats; the picture's completed by ebony mane, cheekbones to die for, and an extraordinarily mobile mouth with alarming overbite. Lilith kills time at a vampire/goth bar, shagging lesbian or stud, but what she really lives for are century-long power games played with the love of her life--er, death. This cynical horror flick punctures the very conventions that are the genre's lifeblood: encouraging egregious mugging and milking portentousness from every remark, <I>Smile</I> reduces the primal sex-death themes of authentic vampire fiction to kiss kiss/bang bang/bite bite. <I>--Kathleen Murphy</I>
Viewer Reviews
This film seems to have been inspired by the old British TV series "The Avengers". Lilith Silver looks like Emma Peel and most of the story would have made a good episode for that show. A lot of the British slang is quite amusing and the witticisms are typically British. The film does not take itself seriously enough to be an effective horror movie. It is more of a crime drama that uses its vampire theme for laughs.
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