DEVIL IN THE FLESH (1998)

CAST: Rose McGowan, Phil Morris, Alex Mcarthur, Sherrie Rose, Aloma Wright, Wendy Robie, Rick Overton

Directed By: Steve Cohen
Written By: Kurt Anderson & Richard Brandes (Story)
Kevin Carlin-McCall & Steve Cohen & Robert McCall & Michael Michaud (Screenplay)
Cinematography By: Joseph Montgomery
Editor: Micharl Thibault


This Film isn’t anything you haven’t seen before.

A Teenager gets a dangerous obsession with her teacher and refuses to let anyone get in her way.

The film Starts off like a less refined “Lolita” but soon morphs into a teenage “Fatal Attraction” with a higher body count and more flirting and no sex. As the story goes along we find out the girl played by Rose McGowan has a dark secret which you could probably guess 5 minutes into the film. She also stands out because as most of the characters in this movie are tanned as the movie takes place in florida. Especially her Competitions for the teacher. So as she walks around in the sun drenched town she is so plae like a gleaming ghost.

Another of my HBO Original premieres the film is bad it tries for a twist ending that is predictable. You know who all the eventual victims will be as soon as you meet them.

Even though she is good in the film and I do like her as a actress Rose McGowan is a little long in the tooth to play this role. Though the film is billed as a erotic thriller there is a serious lack of nudity and sex. Sure there is flirting and skin on display in skimpy outfits sorry fellas it is false advertising though for the ladies the leading man who is not believable as a teacher he looks too smarmy does take his shirt off a lot. This was before Matthew McCongnahey Did it in most of his movies.

This movie should just have just reveled in the other product out there and been a typical skinemax movie that it wouldn’t be as blaringly bad. Just a typical sex thriller, but as it stands now it is a really bad movie

Only watch if you are a Rose McGowan Fetishist. She appears in a lot of bad movies and is usually good in them. Sometimes the only good thing, but hey she has to work.

It amazes me it took so many writers to come up with something so cliché and bad. You would think one of them had talent and a original idea. It’s entertaining in a trashy way but nowhere near good.