Stefanie
Powers, Louise Lasser
More like "Sweet and Sour Rachel", this one boasts some fabulous
moments but ultimately falls flat. Stefanie stars as Rachel, a whiny mess
of a woman whose occult-dabbling husband has just jumped out of a window
to his death after seeing a vision. Rachel starts getting harassing phonecalls
from someone intoning "Eye! Knife! Raven! Doll! Coffin!", and
understandably starts losing it after she begins to suspect that her witchy
cousin and her trashy parents (including the perennially evil Louise
Lasser) are behind the death. Drugged and otherwise worthless,
Rachel stumbles through the mystery with the help of a few detectives (one
blind, which makes for a deliciously creepy possession scene in the cops'
car), and ultimately the secret behind the "psychic games" and
their effect on her husband is revealed. And yet despite some delicious
gothic imagery and fabulously cunty catfights, this one falls short mostly
because Powers is too annoying and weak to really engage. Consider it a
Stefanie Powers failure. |
