Dangerous Seductress
1995
Director- H. Tjut Djalil
Cast- Kristin Anin, Tonya Lawson, Amy Weber, Joseph
Cassano, John Warom
From Indonesia
The
movie opens with a frenetic, violent chase. Police are in hot pursuit of jewel
thieves. The chase ends with a crash and blood spilling on the ground. From
that ground rises a succubus, the Queen of Darkness (Amy Weber). The problem
is, only her head is formed. Her body is still rotted flesh and bones. She
learns real quick how to solve that when a poor dog tries to gnaw on her leg
bone and she lops its head off. She
absorbs its blood and this restores most of her body. However, she can’t go out
looking for more because some kind of earth spirits have her pinned in place.
Meanwhile,
across some continents, beautiful blonde Susan (Playboy model Tonya Lawson,
billed as Tonya Offer here) is finding out what a jerk her boyfriend is. Not
only is he late coming home for their anniversary, he then beats her and rapes
her! This has apparently happened before but she decides enough is enough and
hauls ass.
Susan’s older
sister Linda (Kristin Anin) is also a beautiful blonde (good genes in the family
I guess) who is working as a model in Indonesia. Big sister lets little sis
crash at her pad while she goes off to some exotic locale for a
photoshoot. As it just so happens, Linda
has a grimoire of Indonesian black magic because someone gave it to her for her
birthday (because ,you know, that’s what you give people right?). She has left
it lying around and Susan, not having any copies of TV guide, decides to give
it a whirl. Not only is she able to read it but she summons the spirit of the
Queen of Darkness, who appears in Susan’s mirror. The Queen promises her beauty
and power if Susan will just let her use her body. Susan agrees and then goes
out to do the Queen’s bidding.
I have
seen the film listed with the title Evil Queen, with a date of 1992, but its
most commonly listed as Dangerous Seductress with a date of 1995, so that’s how
I have it listed here. Just watching the
film, it’s hard to tie it to any particular era. It has a 70’s disco opening
theme, the whole thing in general seems like an 80s B film, but the fashions
are definitely 90s. All of the Caucasian expats filling up the background look
so 90s you can almost smell the Drakkar dripping off of them.
The film
has something for everyone; shoots outs, vampirism, folk magic, underground spirits,
a floating head, a dismembered finger
walking around. The one thing it doesn’t have is any nudity! A whole film about
a succubus, staring a beautiful Playboy model, and there is no nudity? Tonya
Lawson was in so many skimpy outfits, you think they could have tossed us a
complimentary nipple, but no. This was typical though of Asian cinema at the
time and to a much lesser extent even today. In the 90s, the Japanese might
have been pervs making cartoons about school girls being raped by alien
octopuses, but they shied away from explicit sex in their live action films.
Even today there is a general taboo about showing genitalia. There are 2
scenes, one with the Evil Queen and one with Tonya, where the actresses are
nude, but they’ve covered over the naughty bits with special effects to make it
look like their nipples are glowing energy balls (!?!?). You can find
uncensored stills on the interweb, but what print those are from, I don’t know.
Well, in any case I’m sure that glowing energy nipples is somebody’s fetish.
To put
it straight, most people will not like this movie. Its low budget and cheesey.
But if you want something different, or are old enough to remember getting
bootlegged VHS copies of laserdiscs from Asia, then you may find something you
like here.
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