Starting with Oscar nominee Carroll Baker (who really could act when given a great script and helmed by a great director) and continuing with Susan Tyrell, going down the line to the angry woman who wants to commit petracide, all fantastic pillars of society. Baker takes over a part that Divine would have devoured like ribeye and turns it into a shrewish straight role where there are absolutely no laughs, including ones in bad taste or chuckles of irony.
She's a beautician as a legitimate profession, but the head of a kill for pay agency where all the killers are women, until she has to much against her will bring a man in. Her clients are all nut cases, and the closest this gets to a John Waters movie is the hesvyset woman with a grudge against a cop, a role perfect for Edith Massey had Waters directed it. I found very little amusing and the supposed distasteful moments just had me bored. A great well deserved outcome for Baker though.
She's a beautician as a legitimate profession, but the head of a kill for pay agency where all the killers are women, until she has to much against her will bring a man in. Her clients are all nut cases, and the closest this gets to a John Waters movie is the hesvyset woman with a grudge against a cop, a role perfect for Edith Massey had Waters directed it. I found very little amusing and the supposed distasteful moments just had me bored. A great well deserved outcome for Baker though.