Killer Tongue

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Killer Tongue
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Film poster
Directed byAlberto Sciamma
Produced by Christopher Figg
Andrés Vicente Gómez
Starring
Cinematography Denis Crossan
Edited by Jeremy Gibbs
Production
companies
Lolafilms
Sociedad General de Televisión (Sogetel)
Spice Factory
The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company
Distributed by Buena Vista International (Spain)
Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom)
Release dates
  • 7 September 1996 (1996-9-7)(TIFF)
  • 15 November 1996 (1996-11-15)(Spain)
  • 3 April 1998 (1998-04-03)(United Kingdom)
Running time
99 minutes [1]
CountriesSpain
United Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish
Spanish

Killer Tongue (La lengua asesina) is a 1996 British/Spanish science fiction comedy horror film directed by Alberto Sciamma and starring Melinda Clarke, Jason Durr, and Robert Englund.

Contents

In the film, a female bank robber is infected with material from a meteor and transforms into a bloodthirsty killer. Her pet dogs are also infected, and transform into drag queens.

Plot

In a region heavily implied to be the Southern Western U.S. with license plates from Texas and New Mexico seen, taking place after a successful bank heist, Candy and Johnny go on the run, abandoning the rest of their crew. Johnny is soon arrested and Candy is forced to hide out in a convent. An alien infested meteor lands in Candy's soup which infects her and her pet poodles. The infection causes dramatic changes in everyone who has consumed it, causing her poodles to transform into drag queens. [2]

Soon Candy also starts changing, her hair and skin change colour, spikes protrude from her spine, and her tongue extends and soon becomes murderous. This causes Candy to kill multiple people in various ways, by using her now bloodthirsty tongue. [3]

Cast

Reception

Critical response

Critic review were overwhelmingly negative, criticizing the script, acting and comedy with reviews such as; "An aggressively over-the-top and incoherent spectacle that almost never makes sense" by Rob Gonsalves of Rob's Film Vault and "Sometimes you can know a stinker from its title, and, indeed, something by the name of Killer Tongue has 'crap' written all over it" by Michael Dequina of TheMovieReport.com. [5]

Awards

Melinda Clarke won the 1996 Sitges Film Festival Best Actress Award for her role in Killer Tongue. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Killer Tongue (18)". BBFC . 10 February 1998. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  2. ↑ Ferguson, Michael (2004). Idol worship : a shameless celebration of male beauty in the movies (Second ed.). Sarasota, Fla.: STARbooks Press. p. 312. ISBN   9781891855481.
  3. ↑ Conrich, Ian (2017). Gothic dissections in film and literature : the body in parts. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 98–100. ISBN   9781137303585.
  4. ↑ Cotter, Padraig (17 November 2019). "Jonathan Rhys Meyers: Where Else You Recognise The Tudors Star". ScreenRant. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  5. ↑ Lee, Joseph (June 30, 2016). "411MANIA". A Bloody Good Time: 10 Worst Horror Films Of 1996. Archived from the original on July 1, 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  6. ↑ "FESTIVAL ARCHIVES - Sitges Film Festival - Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya". sitgesfilmfestival.com. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.


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