Session: And Then There Were None, Week 4
Movie: Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
Directed by Alfred Sole
As always, there may be spoilers here. And the trailer may be NSFW and/or NSFL. This trailer is for "Holy Terror," which is the same movie as "Alice Sweet Alice." It had been released under more than one name.
Plot:
Alice, a troubled teen in need of psychiatric help seems to have turned her anger up a murderous notch. Hilarity ensues.
Reaction:
My reaction to Eyes of a Stranger, which we saw a week earlier, was that it was more than just a slasher film. I feel the same way about Alice, Sweet Alice, only more so. It's interesting that this was made in 1975 (and first released in 1976), which was years before slashers really became a thing, and yet it has the slasher genre down. But it has more. There's complexity to the stabbings, and the plot that you don't see in fare such as Halloween or Friday XIII. In many ways Alice feels more like a giallo than a straight slasher film, though it doesn't really fully capture the whole giallo vibe either.
The cast does a really good job, which was a pleasant surprise given that there aren't really any huge stars. The trailer hypes Brooke Shields but this was her first theatrical role, and (trailer notwithstanding) it's actually a pretty minor one.
Alice, Sweet Alice passes the Bechdel test.
Ratings:
Me: 9.1
Christina: 9.5
Ethan: 9
Sean 2 out of 4
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